NO OCR TEXT THE next time youre Paris looking over ancient chateau late uncle Jacques left just chasing wandering free-flight theres place youll have visit Actually its two places both great historical interest full marvelous important old avions what locals call airplanes Its Musee de lAir pronounced Myew 62 Model Aviation What smart young glider pilot wearing century ago 1879 Riot Planeur ZAY duh- LAIR means simply Museum Air possible exception Smithsonians National Air& Space Museum Washington has worlds finest collection truly historic flying things Unlike big American museum French displays almost single item owns ways its pure aviation aimed people appreciate what theyre seein& hav ing rooms jammed packed airplanes other ways its purely French being two distinct sections located 15 miles apartone northeastof Paris andthe other southwest Getting other involves subways trains buses feet lot waiting stations anyone likes get close aircraft played major roles history aviation minor inconveniences contrast other air museums around world French located very 1906 Vuja C02 motor stable quadracycle landing gear lacked thing Flyability 1910 Wrights Curtiss still struggling spindly open biplanes Eduard Nieuport gave world clean little monoplane type 2N modern doors compromise total feeling being simple sign attached old stone wall surrounding Uflalais-Meuclonback happened Within ancient building Chalais-Meudon tells tourist just short walk awayare aeronautical artifacts dating back almost two centuries warehouse wires widgets 1913 Deperdussin stands out likes Concorde Kitty Hawk should have taught world lesson about streamlining remarkable aircraft far ahead its time makes attractive model April 1980 63 wno overtoOK alter tney nad graooeo eariy lead tne race perfect airplane prototype pusher biplane first practical flying machines No original old Breguet biplane exists honor pioneer French manufacturers metal model acts stand-in Less two years after Orville Wilbur first flew brave M Ferber tried fly just 6 hp contra-rotating props 1912 Donnet-Leveque looks lot like early Curtiss flying boat vice versa red ribbon leads floor-mounted sign few flown after several crashed cause design flaw dear readers bomber days bombers hardly ever hurt anyone Voisin i de lAir first days first aerial war historical pieces land older aircraft collection Chalais-Meudon pleasantly wooded estate southwest Paris has aeronautical past going back almost dawn human flight 1784 unscheduled landing ground balloon piloted Duke Chartres 100 years later 1884 itwas I-my years ago competatlon aerobatics game less power wing todays battles PiUs Specials Yet 1927 Morane-Saulnier A1 might hold its own 1980 Le Bourget Airfield modern airplanes dominate Musee newest hall American British French Jet fighters used French Air Force Once alive thunder powerful engines stilled foreveryet still alive April 1980 65 Anotner great leap torward beginning all-metal airplanes German Junkers F13 used corrugated skin like later Ju-52 waneot lot performance its power no match sophisticated Messerschmitts out-numbered open-cocipi1 parasou-wlngeu i-rencn aeroomic macnine mis Marcel Dorets pet Dewoitine 520 its Hispano V-B 5-roarin n yuu warn mu oe sure OT seeing rare nussian Yak ria War Ii Tigmer have go Le Bourget north Paris type used French unit serving Eastem Front World War II jet-powered delta wing may worlds smallest built Payen building radical designs back early 19305 some first deltas should light up eyes RCers looking something swift base worlds first controllable flying machine Renard Krebs La France dirigible made five-mile round trip 8k-hp electric motor present museum founded 1919 present building dedicated 1921 making oldest world As walk along narrow road leading up gate pass futuristic National Center Planetary Stellar Science rather old full-scale wind tunneL experimental nature Chalais-Meudon spans decades other half Musee de lAir located Le Bourget Airport once Paris main airline terminal now relegated special status because nearness flashy new DeGaulle Airport Bourget Charles Lindbergh landed after epic flight New York 1927 itis atBourgetthattheworlds largest important aerospace exhibitionthe Paris Air Show held odd-numbered year airlines moved out few years ago left lot empty hangars Musee de lAir moved dozens its airplanes Chalais-Meudon traditional home museum soit seems logical place start tour rare collection get leave Invalides Station train bound Versailles getting off about 15 minutes Meudon-Val Fleury 10-minute walk up Rue d Arthelon turn right onto Rue des Vertugadins youre guard will point way museum costs 66 Model Aviation 1930s air racing wasnt GeeBees Wedell Williamsthe Caudron C71 4R foreground less power yet speed American ft comes fast biplanes Russian 1-153 will stay best flew Spain racer prior World War II about 70 cents get first impression upon entering great ancient clutter Airplanes pieces airplanes everywhere look very old covered translucent fabric makes place look like vast collec tion ribs struts wires isnt far truth few minutes individual airplanes begin sort themselves out some familiar craft take shape Sitting floor small sign identify earliest serious attempts fly Europe Brazilian Alberto Santos Dumonts tiny Demoiselle empty weight 240 lbs about same 1979 foam-and-fiberglass Quicky carried its builder several short flights 1908 Next Romanian Vuias spindly craft a25 O2 motor may have made few hops 1906 other side aisle airplane just few years newer couple decades modem design beautifully streamlined Deperdussin dey-PAIR-doo-SAN first airplane top 200 km/hr straight line Maurice Prevost pilot won important Gordon Bennett race 1913 Its tightly cowled engine two-row 14-cylinder Gnome rotary Hanging ceiling opposite side building very first airplane fly off water land back Henri Fabre s Hydra vion did 1910 almost full year before Glen Curtiss flew first seaplane Fabre still living time words written built canard pusher watercraft because figured would less painful crash water land April 1980 67 Just climb aboard strap yourself down wait ear-shattering roar ram-jet begin Leduc 01 Owas strictlyfor research sci-fi films parallel powerplant principle think Dynajet European style pre-war racing Potaz 53 sped hours 200 mph despite its mere 300 hp contemporary Wedell Williams racers far first seaplane hangs older machine first heavier-than-air craft fly Chalais-Meudon most fly anyway 1905 Ferber biplane contra-rotating propellers operating concentric shafts would have great achievement flown 6-hp Buchet engine best could skim down slope suspended overhead cable Still front part ancient hangar rare Antoinette monoplanes graceful airplane 1909 set theme tens thousands followed has its engine nose mid-mounted wing fairly high aspect ratio tail consisting horizontal surface vertical surface such unusual idea now 70 years ago pretty radical nearby display case excellent model 1911 version Antoinette complete strikingly modem streamlining would several decades before rest world caught up some advanced ideas Among really successful airplanes pre-World War era Farman biplanes built brothers Henri Maurice more-orless original Henri Farman suspended just above heads visitors quaint French Continued page 125 68 Model Aviation first glance hail Le Bourget Airfield looks like storeroom during earthquake really has just compressed dynamic flight 1930s gaze upon lost mood days gone byand thats essential ingredient worthy museum ne eary nissory os -rencn aviation preserved silver Robert Moraneali 1/50th scale 12&131980 ckg0 Plan now attend unquestionably worlds greatest radio control show Open public three great days Presented Weak Signals R/C Club P0 Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April FRIDAY9 am 6 pm SATURDAY9am 6pm SUNDAY9am 430pm know what happens servos switch has left batteries drain servos go extreme end Thats exactly what happened about 230 morning Jack awoke start loud noise snapped light see Super Tiger 60 Skybolt come life tear across room proceed chew big hunks Out dads Bud Nosen /4 scale Aeronca Champ friends enough scare hell out anyone have suspected some time hobby becoming too complex. have strong suspicion preceding tale tall other hand friend brand new car selfstarted during night parked driveway ended up inside garage after having smashed hole through door No name wasnt Ripley illustrate propellers dont have mounted huge engines cause lot grief following comes letter received reader Nappanee Indiana starting Craft-Air Butterfly Two must admit accident really happened positioned myself front plane due very large wing area Once engine started reached across engine remove attached glowplug clip thought reached over arc prop alas didnt prop caught very tip first finger finger nail middle finger noticed blood shirt opposite hand wing plane before looked right hand prop made very clean deep cut tip first finger just under nail exposed deeper tissue finger middle finger prop smashed through nail cut deep tissue under nail hospital three stitches required close cut first finger nothing could done deep cut under nail middle finger except splint isnt major accident stretch mind John could have Im commercial artist loss finger loss nerve response could have very devastating family main reason elected reprint letter concerns statement last sentence above us stop think effect livelihood loss finger might have Any job requiring finger dexterity could jeopardized accident such involves 60 size engine instead mere 15 cu correspondent also stated time accident flying alone makes us shudder think what might have outcome engine ex-chainsaw powerplant wind up months safety column letter Larry Miles Mission KS has some worthwhile tips use chicken sticks engine starting have seen modelers using chicken sticks made rather hard material such aluminum rods hard fiberglass dowels etc engine backfires hits stick modeler does clear arc prop rapidly enoughWhack course thats idea device prop hits stick rather fingers potential safety hazard exists prop hits hard stick prop may crack internally visible later fail disastrous results think suggestion recommends chicken stick should also warn stick should covered softer material such several layers electrical friction duct tape perhaps leather Larry goes suggest alter native chicken stick leather glove finger thimble effective protective device agree Larry concludes letter saying following term chicken stick feel should discarded favor something such starter stick smart stick smart starter stick etc As presently named use term chicken stick encourages people especially ignorant beginner avoid like plague After wants chicken So have Whether youre ig norant beginner macho pattern pylon flier Smart Sticks make sense Have safe month John Preston 7012 Elvira Ct Falls Church VA 22042 Musee de lAir/Berliner Continued page 68 museum looking world like fugitive Magnificent Men Flying Machines copy Farman derivative flown film though modem engine rear half building taken up airplanes World War much fought above France little Voisin April 1980 125 anna an CAP YOUR CLUB LOGO Great IC CIubsI Let Know 1 Club Low Minimum Reasonable Prices Good Service Inquire about Call Write CustomWi printed TEETOP DOG tool Kt8N 4730 SW 75th Ave 4dUN i FL 33155 S 13051 261 -7768 L-A5 bomber sits simulated airfield what looks like its pilot inside crew ready give its prop whirl entire building dates time Great War effect old flying field lot realistic modern building escalators fluorescent lights trim delicate little Nieuport-Delage XI Bebe floats above Voisin its single handoperated Lewis machine gun ready far away 1910 Nieuport 2N monoplane shows marked family resemblance its militant descendant Among really rare World War types 30 Packard-LePere us built US Army Air Service French design two-seater has 400-hp American-built Liberty V-8 original aircraft Musee de Air collection along deHavilland dh9 Henri Farman addition complete aircraft museum parts some unusually historic craft gondola La France dirigible GRUMMAN WIDGEON MR Gs PRODUCTS 1100 Michigan Box 161 Marvsville MI 48040 flew almost 100 years ago hangs girders basket free balloons used during siege Paris 1870 collection artifacts survived century storage moisture moving about four terrible years Nazi occupation Gliders too represented oldest perhaps oldest anywhere 1879 Riot Planeur hangs right above entrance Near reproduction 1895 Lilienthal real 1904 Chanute glider Also hanging rafters flimsy looking Bleriot monoplane much like first cross English Channel Except has Pegoud lettered way across undersurface wings sign floor level connected airplane long red ribbon identifies personal airplane Adolphe Pegoud used achieve first inverted flight 1913 also first parachute airplane though obviously great joys visiting museum really looks like museum poking around corners search unknown treasure Ultra modern establishments like National Air & Space Museum dont have dark corners fun exploring discovering lost isnt case Chalais-Meudon corners hideaways await adven turous course building full nooks crannies will keep some its secrets Among aircraft searched vain actual Bleriot dear old Louis B flew France England 1 909 innaugurate international aviation Try might couldnt find Another airplane flatly refused show itself little Pou-Maquis Flying Flea built operated French Underground forces during World War II right under noses Germans may have undergoing maintenance may have practicing hiding case ever come back building mainly full-size aircraft usual need show aviation can possibly fitted available space models employed eye-catching Robert Morane collection of37 1/50th-scale models mostly older French aircraft molded silver Depending visitors enthusiasm very old flying things trip through Chalais-Meudon can take anywhere hour entire day either way time eventually comes must say adieu distant past Down road past wind tunnel space research labs Out gate walk back suburban railway station seems different now quaint little French streets shops have become part something bigger familiar train ride back center Paris hardly time review sights crammed ornate old hunk architecture estate once modern transpor tation devices struggled air sailed wherever uncertain French winds blew brave aeronauts Once back busy city its time plan second part tourto Le Bourget modern half French national aeronautical collection part little simpler long dont panic faced really quite useful easy-to-use Metro subway system First north via Line # 13 station called St Denis/Porte de Paris bus Aeroport thats about Musee de lAir currently occupies four connected hangars east side what used busy airline field lot functional single hangar Chalais Meudon airplanes inside everything seems fit hangars has theme least period time its airplanes belong Starting northerly come recent airplanes post-World War II era common museums around USA well spend least amount time Theres Mystere IV jet fighter early 1950s first various Mirage delta-winged jets US has contributed F-86 Sabre F100 Super Sabre though seems little out place AT-6 Texan trainer enter exit directly under twin tail booms deHavilland Vampire second big linked-together hangars houses airplanes used French research development thus full prototypes pretty much unknown Since French aviation industry has earned post war reputation building almost prototypes production-line airplanes hangar special interest Theres Trident 9000 slim jet engines ends its squarish wings Nord 126 Model Aviation toJeIs INTRODUCING JAil MER OSt IncQUALITY RIC PRODUCTS FEATURES MACHINED BALSA PARTS FULL SIZE PLANS COMPLETE HARDWARE PAC AL LANDING GEAR CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS ASSY INSTRUCTIONS SPECIFICATIONS SPANSO AREA500 LENGTH35-3/4 WEIGHT3-1/2 4 lbs ENGINE40 RADIO4 Channel Retail Price OUR SKY JAMMER IS FAST AND STEADY AND MAKES FANTASTIC PATTERN DEALERS TRAINER THE EXPERTS WILL AGREE THIS ISA FUN AIRCRAFT AND CAN RACE WITH STANDARD THE BEST OF THEM IT HAS TRICYCLE OR TAIL DRAGGER OPTION DEDUCTION BOX 226 BISBEE AZ 85603Phone 602 432 2329 Ultimate Flying Boat SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT Griffon sleek nose big air intake its turbo/ramiet engine blending somewhat crudely fat aft fuselage barrel-shaped Leduc 010 flying ramjet its pilot lying tubular cockpit inside engine looking like whole lot fun fly Parked floor can walk right up prototype Mirage Ill-V VTOL delta used eight smallish vertically mounted lift engines fuselage doors above below streamline use quite sophisticated expensive experi mental aircraft nearby Payen 49 Delta very small single-seater built pioneer design powered ajet engine 300 lbs thrust moved close 300 mph Hanging low ceiling original Jodel D9 Bebe single-seat all-wood homebuilt launched post-war French amateurconstruction movement played major role rebuilding lightplane industry hangar three planes World War II some fairly familiar air museum goer like P-Si Mustang P-47 Thunderbolt Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX Spanishbuilt Messerschmitt 109 Interesting sure hardly worth trouble journey way Paris though theres Focke Wulf 190 hall dont lose faith better come center hangar pair very rare French avions de chasse pursuit planes sadly brief period French fighting back Morane Saulnier 406 other Dewoitine pronounced DEH-wuh TEEN 520 Both well built seemingly well designed though little short armament didnt get much chance show stuff against clouds Messerschmitts Now eyes have grown accustomed scene brain starts register presence some really unusual types First theres chubby little radial-engined biplane looks sort like old Laird Solution racer turns out nothing less Russian Polikarpov 1-153 captivity sporty pursuit known during Spanish Civil War Chaika seagull considered fastest military biplane see large scale service got France remains mystery theres no question about being now near Mustang Spitfire generally similar looking airplane Russian Yak-3 Western world sleek low-wing fighter powered v-i 2 engine presented French Government appreciation Normandy Groupe French pilots flew alongside Russians Eastern Front low altitude said equal Bf-109 Spitfire best has saved until last objects fourth hangar have much say about history aviation hardly anything needed tojustif trip modest entranceway flanked set airplanes era Coupe Deutsch Race all-out longdistance speed event deserves far attention U S has received left radial-engined Potez 53 won 1933 race flying 1200 miles better 200 mph just 300 hp looks like Marcoux-Bromberg racer Earl Ortman flew several Thompson Trophy Races late 1930s right once finish drooling over Potez two count em Two long sleek Caudron Racers first fixed landing gear wheel pants type C366 according sign below Caudron expert Harry Robinson insists isnt real 366 very good imitation built taxi post-war movie looks real However airplane next three bladed prop retracted landing gear has met nit-pickers won proving genuine Caudron C7 14R intended attempt World Speed Record War interfered grandson Michel Detroyats 1936 Thompson Trophy winner never got chance make history Among airplanes hangar did exactly what meant trio hefty businesslike long-distance record setters Theres Breguet XIX flown Costes LeBrix St Louis Natal Africa i927 Bernard 19i flown Assolant Lefevre Lotti Old Orchard ME Spain back i 929 Breguet Super Bidon Question Mark bore Costes Bellonte world distance record almost 5000 miles 1929 became first men fly Atlantic east west machine i 930 flew Le Bourget Curtiss Field New York two airplanes used great French exhibition pilot Jean Cas ale SPAD Herbemont52 i92 1-vintage aerobatic plane powered 120-hp Gnome-Rhone rotary engine Nieuport-Delage 29C 1 used set world altitude record 3 1000 feet 1919 neat parasol-winged Morane Saulnier i airplane Fronval won major aerobatic meet 1927 still looks flyable Another parasol Dewoitine 530 favorite plane famous French demonstration pilots Marcel Doret 1937 1955 other lesser known airplanes mainly French origin scattered throughout two public sites Musee de lAir its storage restoration facilities what view constitutes quite possibly finest collec tion historic aircraft seen anywhere world Sure isnt anything compare Smithsonians Milestones Flight hall its Wright Flyer Spirit St Louis X- 1 15 manned spacecraft other aircraft museum just examples interesting types rather actual historic aircraft French Air Museum what see what did great things eons ago led eventually todays exotic-yet-useful airplanes like spectacular Concorde SST oh yes prototype Concorde 001 display just outside Musees hangars Bourget Aeroport seems make point historic aircraft need have struts wires April 1980 127
Edition: Model Aviation - 1980/04
Page Numbers: 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 125, 126, 127
NO OCR TEXT THE next time youre Paris looking over ancient chateau late uncle Jacques left just chasing wandering free-flight theres place youll have visit Actually its two places both great historical interest full marvelous important old avions what locals call airplanes Its Musee de lAir pronounced Myew 62 Model Aviation What smart young glider pilot wearing century ago 1879 Riot Planeur ZAY duh- LAIR means simply Museum Air possible exception Smithsonians National Air& Space Museum Washington has worlds finest collection truly historic flying things Unlike big American museum French displays almost single item owns ways its pure aviation aimed people appreciate what theyre seein& hav ing rooms jammed packed airplanes other ways its purely French being two distinct sections located 15 miles apartone northeastof Paris andthe other southwest Getting other involves subways trains buses feet lot waiting stations anyone likes get close aircraft played major roles history aviation minor inconveniences contrast other air museums around world French located very 1906 Vuja C02 motor stable quadracycle landing gear lacked thing Flyability 1910 Wrights Curtiss still struggling spindly open biplanes Eduard Nieuport gave world clean little monoplane type 2N modern doors compromise total feeling being simple sign attached old stone wall surrounding Uflalais-Meuclonback happened Within ancient building Chalais-Meudon tells tourist just short walk awayare aeronautical artifacts dating back almost two centuries warehouse wires widgets 1913 Deperdussin stands out likes Concorde Kitty Hawk should have taught world lesson about streamlining remarkable aircraft far ahead its time makes attractive model April 1980 63 wno overtoOK alter tney nad graooeo eariy lead tne race perfect airplane prototype pusher biplane first practical flying machines No original old Breguet biplane exists honor pioneer French manufacturers metal model acts stand-in Less two years after Orville Wilbur first flew brave M Ferber tried fly just 6 hp contra-rotating props 1912 Donnet-Leveque looks lot like early Curtiss flying boat vice versa red ribbon leads floor-mounted sign few flown after several crashed cause design flaw dear readers bomber days bombers hardly ever hurt anyone Voisin i de lAir first days first aerial war historical pieces land older aircraft collection Chalais-Meudon pleasantly wooded estate southwest Paris has aeronautical past going back almost dawn human flight 1784 unscheduled landing ground balloon piloted Duke Chartres 100 years later 1884 itwas I-my years ago competatlon aerobatics game less power wing todays battles PiUs Specials Yet 1927 Morane-Saulnier A1 might hold its own 1980 Le Bourget Airfield modern airplanes dominate Musee newest hall American British French Jet fighters used French Air Force Once alive thunder powerful engines stilled foreveryet still alive April 1980 65 Anotner great leap torward beginning all-metal airplanes German Junkers F13 used corrugated skin like later Ju-52 waneot lot performance its power no match sophisticated Messerschmitts out-numbered open-cocipi1 parasou-wlngeu i-rencn aeroomic macnine mis Marcel Dorets pet Dewoitine 520 its Hispano V-B 5-roarin n yuu warn mu oe sure OT seeing rare nussian Yak ria War Ii Tigmer have go Le Bourget north Paris type used French unit serving Eastem Front World War II jet-powered delta wing may worlds smallest built Payen building radical designs back early 19305 some first deltas should light up eyes RCers looking something swift base worlds first controllable flying machine Renard Krebs La France dirigible made five-mile round trip 8k-hp electric motor present museum founded 1919 present building dedicated 1921 making oldest world As walk along narrow road leading up gate pass futuristic National Center Planetary Stellar Science rather old full-scale wind tunneL experimental nature Chalais-Meudon spans decades other half Musee de lAir located Le Bourget Airport once Paris main airline terminal now relegated special status because nearness flashy new DeGaulle Airport Bourget Charles Lindbergh landed after epic flight New York 1927 itis atBourgetthattheworlds largest important aerospace exhibitionthe Paris Air Show held odd-numbered year airlines moved out few years ago left lot empty hangars Musee de lAir moved dozens its airplanes Chalais-Meudon traditional home museum soit seems logical place start tour rare collection get leave Invalides Station train bound Versailles getting off about 15 minutes Meudon-Val Fleury 10-minute walk up Rue d Arthelon turn right onto Rue des Vertugadins youre guard will point way museum costs 66 Model Aviation 1930s air racing wasnt GeeBees Wedell Williamsthe Caudron C71 4R foreground less power yet speed American ft comes fast biplanes Russian 1-153 will stay best flew Spain racer prior World War II about 70 cents get first impression upon entering great ancient clutter Airplanes pieces airplanes everywhere look very old covered translucent fabric makes place look like vast collec tion ribs struts wires isnt far truth few minutes individual airplanes begin sort themselves out some familiar craft take shape Sitting floor small sign identify earliest serious attempts fly Europe Brazilian Alberto Santos Dumonts tiny Demoiselle empty weight 240 lbs about same 1979 foam-and-fiberglass Quicky carried its builder several short flights 1908 Next Romanian Vuias spindly craft a25 O2 motor may have made few hops 1906 other side aisle airplane just few years newer couple decades modem design beautifully streamlined Deperdussin dey-PAIR-doo-SAN first airplane top 200 km/hr straight line Maurice Prevost pilot won important Gordon Bennett race 1913 Its tightly cowled engine two-row 14-cylinder Gnome rotary Hanging ceiling opposite side building very first airplane fly off water land back Henri Fabre s Hydra vion did 1910 almost full year before Glen Curtiss flew first seaplane Fabre still living time words written built canard pusher watercraft because figured would less painful crash water land April 1980 67 Just climb aboard strap yourself down wait ear-shattering roar ram-jet begin Leduc 01 Owas strictlyfor research sci-fi films parallel powerplant principle think Dynajet European style pre-war racing Potaz 53 sped hours 200 mph despite its mere 300 hp contemporary Wedell Williams racers far first seaplane hangs older machine first heavier-than-air craft fly Chalais-Meudon most fly anyway 1905 Ferber biplane contra-rotating propellers operating concentric shafts would have great achievement flown 6-hp Buchet engine best could skim down slope suspended overhead cable Still front part ancient hangar rare Antoinette monoplanes graceful airplane 1909 set theme tens thousands followed has its engine nose mid-mounted wing fairly high aspect ratio tail consisting horizontal surface vertical surface such unusual idea now 70 years ago pretty radical nearby display case excellent model 1911 version Antoinette complete strikingly modem streamlining would several decades before rest world caught up some advanced ideas Among really successful airplanes pre-World War era Farman biplanes built brothers Henri Maurice more-orless original Henri Farman suspended just above heads visitors quaint French Continued page 125 68 Model Aviation first glance hail Le Bourget Airfield looks like storeroom during earthquake really has just compressed dynamic flight 1930s gaze upon lost mood days gone byand thats essential ingredient worthy museum ne eary nissory os -rencn aviation preserved silver Robert Moraneali 1/50th scale 12&131980 ckg0 Plan now attend unquestionably worlds greatest radio control show Open public three great days Presented Weak Signals R/C Club P0 Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April FRIDAY9 am 6 pm SATURDAY9am 6pm SUNDAY9am 430pm know what happens servos switch has left batteries drain servos go extreme end Thats exactly what happened about 230 morning Jack awoke start loud noise snapped light see Super Tiger 60 Skybolt come life tear across room proceed chew big hunks Out dads Bud Nosen /4 scale Aeronca Champ friends enough scare hell out anyone have suspected some time hobby becoming too complex. have strong suspicion preceding tale tall other hand friend brand new car selfstarted during night parked driveway ended up inside garage after having smashed hole through door No name wasnt Ripley illustrate propellers dont have mounted huge engines cause lot grief following comes letter received reader Nappanee Indiana starting Craft-Air Butterfly Two must admit accident really happened positioned myself front plane due very large wing area Once engine started reached across engine remove attached glowplug clip thought reached over arc prop alas didnt prop caught very tip first finger finger nail middle finger noticed blood shirt opposite hand wing plane before looked right hand prop made very clean deep cut tip first finger just under nail exposed deeper tissue finger middle finger prop smashed through nail cut deep tissue under nail hospital three stitches required close cut first finger nothing could done deep cut under nail middle finger except splint isnt major accident stretch mind John could have Im commercial artist loss finger loss nerve response could have very devastating family main reason elected reprint letter concerns statement last sentence above us stop think effect livelihood loss finger might have Any job requiring finger dexterity could jeopardized accident such involves 60 size engine instead mere 15 cu correspondent also stated time accident flying alone makes us shudder think what might have outcome engine ex-chainsaw powerplant wind up months safety column letter Larry Miles Mission KS has some worthwhile tips use chicken sticks engine starting have seen modelers using chicken sticks made rather hard material such aluminum rods hard fiberglass dowels etc engine backfires hits stick modeler does clear arc prop rapidly enoughWhack course thats idea device prop hits stick rather fingers potential safety hazard exists prop hits hard stick prop may crack internally visible later fail disastrous results think suggestion recommends chicken stick should also warn stick should covered softer material such several layers electrical friction duct tape perhaps leather Larry goes suggest alter native chicken stick leather glove finger thimble effective protective device agree Larry concludes letter saying following term chicken stick feel should discarded favor something such starter stick smart stick smart starter stick etc As presently named use term chicken stick encourages people especially ignorant beginner avoid like plague After wants chicken So have Whether youre ig norant beginner macho pattern pylon flier Smart Sticks make sense Have safe month John Preston 7012 Elvira Ct Falls Church VA 22042 Musee de lAir/Berliner Continued page 68 museum looking world like fugitive Magnificent Men Flying Machines copy Farman derivative flown film though modem engine rear half building taken up airplanes World War much fought above France little Voisin April 1980 125 anna an CAP YOUR CLUB LOGO Great IC CIubsI Let Know 1 Club Low Minimum Reasonable Prices Good Service Inquire about Call Write CustomWi printed TEETOP DOG tool Kt8N 4730 SW 75th Ave 4dUN i FL 33155 S 13051 261 -7768 L-A5 bomber sits simulated airfield what looks like its pilot inside crew ready give its prop whirl entire building dates time Great War effect old flying field lot realistic modern building escalators fluorescent lights trim delicate little Nieuport-Delage XI Bebe floats above Voisin its single handoperated Lewis machine gun ready far away 1910 Nieuport 2N monoplane shows marked family resemblance its militant descendant Among really rare World War types 30 Packard-LePere us built US Army Air Service French design two-seater has 400-hp American-built Liberty V-8 original aircraft Musee de Air collection along deHavilland dh9 Henri Farman addition complete aircraft museum parts some unusually historic craft gondola La France dirigible GRUMMAN WIDGEON MR Gs PRODUCTS 1100 Michigan Box 161 Marvsville MI 48040 flew almost 100 years ago hangs girders basket free balloons used during siege Paris 1870 collection artifacts survived century storage moisture moving about four terrible years Nazi occupation Gliders too represented oldest perhaps oldest anywhere 1879 Riot Planeur hangs right above entrance Near reproduction 1895 Lilienthal real 1904 Chanute glider Also hanging rafters flimsy looking Bleriot monoplane much like first cross English Channel Except has Pegoud lettered way across undersurface wings sign floor level connected airplane long red ribbon identifies personal airplane Adolphe Pegoud used achieve first inverted flight 1913 also first parachute airplane though obviously great joys visiting museum really looks like museum poking around corners search unknown treasure Ultra modern establishments like National Air & Space Museum dont have dark corners fun exploring discovering lost isnt case Chalais-Meudon corners hideaways await adven turous course building full nooks crannies will keep some its secrets Among aircraft searched vain actual Bleriot dear old Louis B flew France England 1 909 innaugurate international aviation Try might couldnt find Another airplane flatly refused show itself little Pou-Maquis Flying Flea built operated French Underground forces during World War II right under noses Germans may have undergoing maintenance may have practicing hiding case ever come back building mainly full-size aircraft usual need show aviation can possibly fitted available space models employed eye-catching Robert Morane collection of37 1/50th-scale models mostly older French aircraft molded silver Depending visitors enthusiasm very old flying things trip through Chalais-Meudon can take anywhere hour entire day either way time eventually comes must say adieu distant past Down road past wind tunnel space research labs Out gate walk back suburban railway station seems different now quaint little French streets shops have become part something bigger familiar train ride back center Paris hardly time review sights crammed ornate old hunk architecture estate once modern transpor tation devices struggled air sailed wherever uncertain French winds blew brave aeronauts Once back busy city its time plan second part tourto Le Bourget modern half French national aeronautical collection part little simpler long dont panic faced really quite useful easy-to-use Metro subway system First north via Line # 13 station called St Denis/Porte de Paris bus Aeroport thats about Musee de lAir currently occupies four connected hangars east side what used busy airline field lot functional single hangar Chalais Meudon airplanes inside everything seems fit hangars has theme least period time its airplanes belong Starting northerly come recent airplanes post-World War II era common museums around USA well spend least amount time Theres Mystere IV jet fighter early 1950s first various Mirage delta-winged jets US has contributed F-86 Sabre F100 Super Sabre though seems little out place AT-6 Texan trainer enter exit directly under twin tail booms deHavilland Vampire second big linked-together hangars houses airplanes used French research development thus full prototypes pretty much unknown Since French aviation industry has earned post war reputation building almost prototypes production-line airplanes hangar special interest Theres Trident 9000 slim jet engines ends its squarish wings Nord 126 Model Aviation toJeIs INTRODUCING JAil MER OSt IncQUALITY RIC PRODUCTS FEATURES MACHINED BALSA PARTS FULL SIZE PLANS COMPLETE HARDWARE PAC AL LANDING GEAR CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS ASSY INSTRUCTIONS SPECIFICATIONS SPANSO AREA500 LENGTH35-3/4 WEIGHT3-1/2 4 lbs ENGINE40 RADIO4 Channel Retail Price OUR SKY JAMMER IS FAST AND STEADY AND MAKES FANTASTIC PATTERN DEALERS TRAINER THE EXPERTS WILL AGREE THIS ISA FUN AIRCRAFT AND CAN RACE WITH STANDARD THE BEST OF THEM IT HAS TRICYCLE OR TAIL DRAGGER OPTION DEDUCTION BOX 226 BISBEE AZ 85603Phone 602 432 2329 Ultimate Flying Boat SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT Griffon sleek nose big air intake its turbo/ramiet engine blending somewhat crudely fat aft fuselage barrel-shaped Leduc 010 flying ramjet its pilot lying tubular cockpit inside engine looking like whole lot fun fly Parked floor can walk right up prototype Mirage Ill-V VTOL delta used eight smallish vertically mounted lift engines fuselage doors above below streamline use quite sophisticated expensive experi mental aircraft nearby Payen 49 Delta very small single-seater built pioneer design powered ajet engine 300 lbs thrust moved close 300 mph Hanging low ceiling original Jodel D9 Bebe single-seat all-wood homebuilt launched post-war French amateurconstruction movement played major role rebuilding lightplane industry hangar three planes World War II some fairly familiar air museum goer like P-Si Mustang P-47 Thunderbolt Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX Spanishbuilt Messerschmitt 109 Interesting sure hardly worth trouble journey way Paris though theres Focke Wulf 190 hall dont lose faith better come center hangar pair very rare French avions de chasse pursuit planes sadly brief period French fighting back Morane Saulnier 406 other Dewoitine pronounced DEH-wuh TEEN 520 Both well built seemingly well designed though little short armament didnt get much chance show stuff against clouds Messerschmitts Now eyes have grown accustomed scene brain starts register presence some really unusual types First theres chubby little radial-engined biplane looks sort like old Laird Solution racer turns out nothing less Russian Polikarpov 1-153 captivity sporty pursuit known during Spanish Civil War Chaika seagull considered fastest military biplane see large scale service got France remains mystery theres no question about being now near Mustang Spitfire generally similar looking airplane Russian Yak-3 Western world sleek low-wing fighter powered v-i 2 engine presented French Government appreciation Normandy Groupe French pilots flew alongside Russians Eastern Front low altitude said equal Bf-109 Spitfire best has saved until last objects fourth hangar have much say about history aviation hardly anything needed tojustif trip modest entranceway flanked set airplanes era Coupe Deutsch Race all-out longdistance speed event deserves far attention U S has received left radial-engined Potez 53 won 1933 race flying 1200 miles better 200 mph just 300 hp looks like Marcoux-Bromberg racer Earl Ortman flew several Thompson Trophy Races late 1930s right once finish drooling over Potez two count em Two long sleek Caudron Racers first fixed landing gear wheel pants type C366 according sign below Caudron expert Harry Robinson insists isnt real 366 very good imitation built taxi post-war movie looks real However airplane next three bladed prop retracted landing gear has met nit-pickers won proving genuine Caudron C7 14R intended attempt World Speed Record War interfered grandson Michel Detroyats 1936 Thompson Trophy winner never got chance make history Among airplanes hangar did exactly what meant trio hefty businesslike long-distance record setters Theres Breguet XIX flown Costes LeBrix St Louis Natal Africa i927 Bernard 19i flown Assolant Lefevre Lotti Old Orchard ME Spain back i 929 Breguet Super Bidon Question Mark bore Costes Bellonte world distance record almost 5000 miles 1929 became first men fly Atlantic east west machine i 930 flew Le Bourget Curtiss Field New York two airplanes used great French exhibition pilot Jean Cas ale SPAD Herbemont52 i92 1-vintage aerobatic plane powered 120-hp Gnome-Rhone rotary engine Nieuport-Delage 29C 1 used set world altitude record 3 1000 feet 1919 neat parasol-winged Morane Saulnier i airplane Fronval won major aerobatic meet 1927 still looks flyable Another parasol Dewoitine 530 favorite plane famous French demonstration pilots Marcel Doret 1937 1955 other lesser known airplanes mainly French origin scattered throughout two public sites Musee de lAir its storage restoration facilities what view constitutes quite possibly finest collec tion historic aircraft seen anywhere world Sure isnt anything compare Smithsonians Milestones Flight hall its Wright Flyer Spirit St Louis X- 1 15 manned spacecraft other aircraft museum just examples interesting types rather actual historic aircraft French Air Museum what see what did great things eons ago led eventually todays exotic-yet-useful airplanes like spectacular Concorde SST oh yes prototype Concorde 001 display just outside Musees hangars Bourget Aeroport seems make point historic aircraft need have struts wires April 1980 127
Edition: Model Aviation - 1980/04
Page Numbers: 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 125, 126, 127
NO OCR TEXT THE next time youre Paris looking over ancient chateau late uncle Jacques left just chasing wandering free-flight theres place youll have visit Actually its two places both great historical interest full marvelous important old avions what locals call airplanes Its Musee de lAir pronounced Myew 62 Model Aviation What smart young glider pilot wearing century ago 1879 Riot Planeur ZAY duh- LAIR means simply Museum Air possible exception Smithsonians National Air& Space Museum Washington has worlds finest collection truly historic flying things Unlike big American museum French displays almost single item owns ways its pure aviation aimed people appreciate what theyre seein& hav ing rooms jammed packed airplanes other ways its purely French being two distinct sections located 15 miles apartone northeastof Paris andthe other southwest Getting other involves subways trains buses feet lot waiting stations anyone likes get close aircraft played major roles history aviation minor inconveniences contrast other air museums around world French located very 1906 Vuja C02 motor stable quadracycle landing gear lacked thing Flyability 1910 Wrights Curtiss still struggling spindly open biplanes Eduard Nieuport gave world clean little monoplane type 2N modern doors compromise total feeling being simple sign attached old stone wall surrounding Uflalais-Meuclonback happened Within ancient building Chalais-Meudon tells tourist just short walk awayare aeronautical artifacts dating back almost two centuries warehouse wires widgets 1913 Deperdussin stands out likes Concorde Kitty Hawk should have taught world lesson about streamlining remarkable aircraft far ahead its time makes attractive model April 1980 63 wno overtoOK alter tney nad graooeo eariy lead tne race perfect airplane prototype pusher biplane first practical flying machines No original old Breguet biplane exists honor pioneer French manufacturers metal model acts stand-in Less two years after Orville Wilbur first flew brave M Ferber tried fly just 6 hp contra-rotating props 1912 Donnet-Leveque looks lot like early Curtiss flying boat vice versa red ribbon leads floor-mounted sign few flown after several crashed cause design flaw dear readers bomber days bombers hardly ever hurt anyone Voisin i de lAir first days first aerial war historical pieces land older aircraft collection Chalais-Meudon pleasantly wooded estate southwest Paris has aeronautical past going back almost dawn human flight 1784 unscheduled landing ground balloon piloted Duke Chartres 100 years later 1884 itwas I-my years ago competatlon aerobatics game less power wing todays battles PiUs Specials Yet 1927 Morane-Saulnier A1 might hold its own 1980 Le Bourget Airfield modern airplanes dominate Musee newest hall American British French Jet fighters used French Air Force Once alive thunder powerful engines stilled foreveryet still alive April 1980 65 Anotner great leap torward beginning all-metal airplanes German Junkers F13 used corrugated skin like later Ju-52 waneot lot performance its power no match sophisticated Messerschmitts out-numbered open-cocipi1 parasou-wlngeu i-rencn aeroomic macnine mis Marcel Dorets pet Dewoitine 520 its Hispano V-B 5-roarin n yuu warn mu oe sure OT seeing rare nussian Yak ria War Ii Tigmer have go Le Bourget north Paris type used French unit serving Eastem Front World War II jet-powered delta wing may worlds smallest built Payen building radical designs back early 19305 some first deltas should light up eyes RCers looking something swift base worlds first controllable flying machine Renard Krebs La France dirigible made five-mile round trip 8k-hp electric motor present museum founded 1919 present building dedicated 1921 making oldest world As walk along narrow road leading up gate pass futuristic National Center Planetary Stellar Science rather old full-scale wind tunneL experimental nature Chalais-Meudon spans decades other half Musee de lAir located Le Bourget Airport once Paris main airline terminal now relegated special status because nearness flashy new DeGaulle Airport Bourget Charles Lindbergh landed after epic flight New York 1927 itis atBourgetthattheworlds largest important aerospace exhibitionthe Paris Air Show held odd-numbered year airlines moved out few years ago left lot empty hangars Musee de lAir moved dozens its airplanes Chalais-Meudon traditional home museum soit seems logical place start tour rare collection get leave Invalides Station train bound Versailles getting off about 15 minutes Meudon-Val Fleury 10-minute walk up Rue d Arthelon turn right onto Rue des Vertugadins youre guard will point way museum costs 66 Model Aviation 1930s air racing wasnt GeeBees Wedell Williamsthe Caudron C71 4R foreground less power yet speed American ft comes fast biplanes Russian 1-153 will stay best flew Spain racer prior World War II about 70 cents get first impression upon entering great ancient clutter Airplanes pieces airplanes everywhere look very old covered translucent fabric makes place look like vast collec tion ribs struts wires isnt far truth few minutes individual airplanes begin sort themselves out some familiar craft take shape Sitting floor small sign identify earliest serious attempts fly Europe Brazilian Alberto Santos Dumonts tiny Demoiselle empty weight 240 lbs about same 1979 foam-and-fiberglass Quicky carried its builder several short flights 1908 Next Romanian Vuias spindly craft a25 O2 motor may have made few hops 1906 other side aisle airplane just few years newer couple decades modem design beautifully streamlined Deperdussin dey-PAIR-doo-SAN first airplane top 200 km/hr straight line Maurice Prevost pilot won important Gordon Bennett race 1913 Its tightly cowled engine two-row 14-cylinder Gnome rotary Hanging ceiling opposite side building very first airplane fly off water land back Henri Fabre s Hydra vion did 1910 almost full year before Glen Curtiss flew first seaplane Fabre still living time words written built canard pusher watercraft because figured would less painful crash water land April 1980 67 Just climb aboard strap yourself down wait ear-shattering roar ram-jet begin Leduc 01 Owas strictlyfor research sci-fi films parallel powerplant principle think Dynajet European style pre-war racing Potaz 53 sped hours 200 mph despite its mere 300 hp contemporary Wedell Williams racers far first seaplane hangs older machine first heavier-than-air craft fly Chalais-Meudon most fly anyway 1905 Ferber biplane contra-rotating propellers operating concentric shafts would have great achievement flown 6-hp Buchet engine best could skim down slope suspended overhead cable Still front part ancient hangar rare Antoinette monoplanes graceful airplane 1909 set theme tens thousands followed has its engine nose mid-mounted wing fairly high aspect ratio tail consisting horizontal surface vertical surface such unusual idea now 70 years ago pretty radical nearby display case excellent model 1911 version Antoinette complete strikingly modem streamlining would several decades before rest world caught up some advanced ideas Among really successful airplanes pre-World War era Farman biplanes built brothers Henri Maurice more-orless original Henri Farman suspended just above heads visitors quaint French Continued page 125 68 Model Aviation first glance hail Le Bourget Airfield looks like storeroom during earthquake really has just compressed dynamic flight 1930s gaze upon lost mood days gone byand thats essential ingredient worthy museum ne eary nissory os -rencn aviation preserved silver Robert Moraneali 1/50th scale 12&131980 ckg0 Plan now attend unquestionably worlds greatest radio control show Open public three great days Presented Weak Signals R/C Club P0 Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April FRIDAY9 am 6 pm SATURDAY9am 6pm SUNDAY9am 430pm know what happens servos switch has left batteries drain servos go extreme end Thats exactly what happened about 230 morning Jack awoke start loud noise snapped light see Super Tiger 60 Skybolt come life tear across room proceed chew big hunks Out dads Bud Nosen /4 scale Aeronca Champ friends enough scare hell out anyone have suspected some time hobby becoming too complex. have strong suspicion preceding tale tall other hand friend brand new car selfstarted during night parked driveway ended up inside garage after having smashed hole through door No name wasnt Ripley illustrate propellers dont have mounted huge engines cause lot grief following comes letter received reader Nappanee Indiana starting Craft-Air Butterfly Two must admit accident really happened positioned myself front plane due very large wing area Once engine started reached across engine remove attached glowplug clip thought reached over arc prop alas didnt prop caught very tip first finger finger nail middle finger noticed blood shirt opposite hand wing plane before looked right hand prop made very clean deep cut tip first finger just under nail exposed deeper tissue finger middle finger prop smashed through nail cut deep tissue under nail hospital three stitches required close cut first finger nothing could done deep cut under nail middle finger except splint isnt major accident stretch mind John could have Im commercial artist loss finger loss nerve response could have very devastating family main reason elected reprint letter concerns statement last sentence above us stop think effect livelihood loss finger might have Any job requiring finger dexterity could jeopardized accident such involves 60 size engine instead mere 15 cu correspondent also stated time accident flying alone makes us shudder think what might have outcome engine ex-chainsaw powerplant wind up months safety column letter Larry Miles Mission KS has some worthwhile tips use chicken sticks engine starting have seen modelers using chicken sticks made rather hard material such aluminum rods hard fiberglass dowels etc engine backfires hits stick modeler does clear arc prop rapidly enoughWhack course thats idea device prop hits stick rather fingers potential safety hazard exists prop hits hard stick prop may crack internally visible later fail disastrous results think suggestion recommends chicken stick should also warn stick should covered softer material such several layers electrical friction duct tape perhaps leather Larry goes suggest alter native chicken stick leather glove finger thimble effective protective device agree Larry concludes letter saying following term chicken stick feel should discarded favor something such starter stick smart stick smart starter stick etc As presently named use term chicken stick encourages people especially ignorant beginner avoid like plague After wants chicken So have Whether youre ig norant beginner macho pattern pylon flier Smart Sticks make sense Have safe month John Preston 7012 Elvira Ct Falls Church VA 22042 Musee de lAir/Berliner Continued page 68 museum looking world like fugitive Magnificent Men Flying Machines copy Farman derivative flown film though modem engine rear half building taken up airplanes World War much fought above France little Voisin April 1980 125 anna an CAP YOUR CLUB LOGO Great IC CIubsI Let Know 1 Club Low Minimum Reasonable Prices Good Service Inquire about Call Write CustomWi printed TEETOP DOG tool Kt8N 4730 SW 75th Ave 4dUN i FL 33155 S 13051 261 -7768 L-A5 bomber sits simulated airfield what looks like its pilot inside crew ready give its prop whirl entire building dates time Great War effect old flying field lot realistic modern building escalators fluorescent lights trim delicate little Nieuport-Delage XI Bebe floats above Voisin its single handoperated Lewis machine gun ready far away 1910 Nieuport 2N monoplane shows marked family resemblance its militant descendant Among really rare World War types 30 Packard-LePere us built US Army Air Service French design two-seater has 400-hp American-built Liberty V-8 original aircraft Musee de Air collection along deHavilland dh9 Henri Farman addition complete aircraft museum parts some unusually historic craft gondola La France dirigible GRUMMAN WIDGEON MR Gs PRODUCTS 1100 Michigan Box 161 Marvsville MI 48040 flew almost 100 years ago hangs girders basket free balloons used during siege Paris 1870 collection artifacts survived century storage moisture moving about four terrible years Nazi occupation Gliders too represented oldest perhaps oldest anywhere 1879 Riot Planeur hangs right above entrance Near reproduction 1895 Lilienthal real 1904 Chanute glider Also hanging rafters flimsy looking Bleriot monoplane much like first cross English Channel Except has Pegoud lettered way across undersurface wings sign floor level connected airplane long red ribbon identifies personal airplane Adolphe Pegoud used achieve first inverted flight 1913 also first parachute airplane though obviously great joys visiting museum really looks like museum poking around corners search unknown treasure Ultra modern establishments like National Air & Space Museum dont have dark corners fun exploring discovering lost isnt case Chalais-Meudon corners hideaways await adven turous course building full nooks crannies will keep some its secrets Among aircraft searched vain actual Bleriot dear old Louis B flew France England 1 909 innaugurate international aviation Try might couldnt find Another airplane flatly refused show itself little Pou-Maquis Flying Flea built operated French Underground forces during World War II right under noses Germans may have undergoing maintenance may have practicing hiding case ever come back building mainly full-size aircraft usual need show aviation can possibly fitted available space models employed eye-catching Robert Morane collection of37 1/50th-scale models mostly older French aircraft molded silver Depending visitors enthusiasm very old flying things trip through Chalais-Meudon can take anywhere hour entire day either way time eventually comes must say adieu distant past Down road past wind tunnel space research labs Out gate walk back suburban railway station seems different now quaint little French streets shops have become part something bigger familiar train ride back center Paris hardly time review sights crammed ornate old hunk architecture estate once modern transpor tation devices struggled air sailed wherever uncertain French winds blew brave aeronauts Once back busy city its time plan second part tourto Le Bourget modern half French national aeronautical collection part little simpler long dont panic faced really quite useful easy-to-use Metro subway system First north via Line # 13 station called St Denis/Porte de Paris bus Aeroport thats about Musee de lAir currently occupies four connected hangars east side what used busy airline field lot functional single hangar Chalais Meudon airplanes inside everything seems fit hangars has theme least period time its airplanes belong Starting northerly come recent airplanes post-World War II era common museums around USA well spend least amount time Theres Mystere IV jet fighter early 1950s first various Mirage delta-winged jets US has contributed F-86 Sabre F100 Super Sabre though seems little out place AT-6 Texan trainer enter exit directly under twin tail booms deHavilland Vampire second big linked-together hangars houses airplanes used French research development thus full prototypes pretty much unknown Since French aviation industry has earned post war reputation building almost prototypes production-line airplanes hangar special interest Theres Trident 9000 slim jet engines ends its squarish wings Nord 126 Model Aviation toJeIs INTRODUCING JAil MER OSt IncQUALITY RIC PRODUCTS FEATURES MACHINED BALSA PARTS FULL SIZE PLANS COMPLETE HARDWARE PAC AL LANDING GEAR CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS ASSY INSTRUCTIONS SPECIFICATIONS SPANSO AREA500 LENGTH35-3/4 WEIGHT3-1/2 4 lbs ENGINE40 RADIO4 Channel Retail Price OUR SKY JAMMER IS FAST AND STEADY AND MAKES FANTASTIC PATTERN DEALERS TRAINER THE EXPERTS WILL AGREE THIS ISA FUN AIRCRAFT AND CAN RACE WITH STANDARD THE BEST OF THEM IT HAS TRICYCLE OR TAIL DRAGGER OPTION DEDUCTION BOX 226 BISBEE AZ 85603Phone 602 432 2329 Ultimate Flying Boat SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT Griffon sleek nose big air intake its turbo/ramiet engine blending somewhat crudely fat aft fuselage barrel-shaped Leduc 010 flying ramjet its pilot lying tubular cockpit inside engine looking like whole lot fun fly Parked floor can walk right up prototype Mirage Ill-V VTOL delta used eight smallish vertically mounted lift engines fuselage doors above below streamline use quite sophisticated expensive experi mental aircraft nearby Payen 49 Delta very small single-seater built pioneer design powered ajet engine 300 lbs thrust moved close 300 mph Hanging low ceiling original Jodel D9 Bebe single-seat all-wood homebuilt launched post-war French amateurconstruction movement played major role rebuilding lightplane industry hangar three planes World War II some fairly familiar air museum goer like P-Si Mustang P-47 Thunderbolt Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX Spanishbuilt Messerschmitt 109 Interesting sure hardly worth trouble journey way Paris though theres Focke Wulf 190 hall dont lose faith better come center hangar pair very rare French avions de chasse pursuit planes sadly brief period French fighting back Morane Saulnier 406 other Dewoitine pronounced DEH-wuh TEEN 520 Both well built seemingly well designed though little short armament didnt get much chance show stuff against clouds Messerschmitts Now eyes have grown accustomed scene brain starts register presence some really unusual types First theres chubby little radial-engined biplane looks sort like old Laird Solution racer turns out nothing less Russian Polikarpov 1-153 captivity sporty pursuit known during Spanish Civil War Chaika seagull considered fastest military biplane see large scale service got France remains mystery theres no question about being now near Mustang Spitfire generally similar looking airplane Russian Yak-3 Western world sleek low-wing fighter powered v-i 2 engine presented French Government appreciation Normandy Groupe French pilots flew alongside Russians Eastern Front low altitude said equal Bf-109 Spitfire best has saved until last objects fourth hangar have much say about history aviation hardly anything needed tojustif trip modest entranceway flanked set airplanes era Coupe Deutsch Race all-out longdistance speed event deserves far attention U S has received left radial-engined Potez 53 won 1933 race flying 1200 miles better 200 mph just 300 hp looks like Marcoux-Bromberg racer Earl Ortman flew several Thompson Trophy Races late 1930s right once finish drooling over Potez two count em Two long sleek Caudron Racers first fixed landing gear wheel pants type C366 according sign below Caudron expert Harry Robinson insists isnt real 366 very good imitation built taxi post-war movie looks real However airplane next three bladed prop retracted landing gear has met nit-pickers won proving genuine Caudron C7 14R intended attempt World Speed Record War interfered grandson Michel Detroyats 1936 Thompson Trophy winner never got chance make history Among airplanes hangar did exactly what meant trio hefty businesslike long-distance record setters Theres Breguet XIX flown Costes LeBrix St Louis Natal Africa i927 Bernard 19i flown Assolant Lefevre Lotti Old Orchard ME Spain back i 929 Breguet Super Bidon Question Mark bore Costes Bellonte world distance record almost 5000 miles 1929 became first men fly Atlantic east west machine i 930 flew Le Bourget Curtiss Field New York two airplanes used great French exhibition pilot Jean Cas ale SPAD Herbemont52 i92 1-vintage aerobatic plane powered 120-hp Gnome-Rhone rotary engine Nieuport-Delage 29C 1 used set world altitude record 3 1000 feet 1919 neat parasol-winged Morane Saulnier i airplane Fronval won major aerobatic meet 1927 still looks flyable Another parasol Dewoitine 530 favorite plane famous French demonstration pilots Marcel Doret 1937 1955 other lesser known airplanes mainly French origin scattered throughout two public sites Musee de lAir its storage restoration facilities what view constitutes quite possibly finest collec tion historic aircraft seen anywhere world Sure isnt anything compare Smithsonians Milestones Flight hall its Wright Flyer Spirit St Louis X- 1 15 manned spacecraft other aircraft museum just examples interesting types rather actual historic aircraft French Air Museum what see what did great things eons ago led eventually todays exotic-yet-useful airplanes like spectacular Concorde SST oh yes prototype Concorde 001 display just outside Musees hangars Bourget Aeroport seems make point historic aircraft need have struts wires April 1980 127
Edition: Model Aviation - 1980/04
Page Numbers: 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 125, 126, 127
NO OCR TEXT THE next time youre Paris looking over ancient chateau late uncle Jacques left just chasing wandering free-flight theres place youll have visit Actually its two places both great historical interest full marvelous important old avions what locals call airplanes Its Musee de lAir pronounced Myew 62 Model Aviation What smart young glider pilot wearing century ago 1879 Riot Planeur ZAY duh- LAIR means simply Museum Air possible exception Smithsonians National Air& Space Museum Washington has worlds finest collection truly historic flying things Unlike big American museum French displays almost single item owns ways its pure aviation aimed people appreciate what theyre seein& hav ing rooms jammed packed airplanes other ways its purely French being two distinct sections located 15 miles apartone northeastof Paris andthe other southwest Getting other involves subways trains buses feet lot waiting stations anyone likes get close aircraft played major roles history aviation minor inconveniences contrast other air museums around world French located very 1906 Vuja C02 motor stable quadracycle landing gear lacked thing Flyability 1910 Wrights Curtiss still struggling spindly open biplanes Eduard Nieuport gave world clean little monoplane type 2N modern doors compromise total feeling being simple sign attached old stone wall surrounding Uflalais-Meuclonback happened Within ancient building Chalais-Meudon tells tourist just short walk awayare aeronautical artifacts dating back almost two centuries warehouse wires widgets 1913 Deperdussin stands out likes Concorde Kitty Hawk should have taught world lesson about streamlining remarkable aircraft far ahead its time makes attractive model April 1980 63 wno overtoOK alter tney nad graooeo eariy lead tne race perfect airplane prototype pusher biplane first practical flying machines No original old Breguet biplane exists honor pioneer French manufacturers metal model acts stand-in Less two years after Orville Wilbur first flew brave M Ferber tried fly just 6 hp contra-rotating props 1912 Donnet-Leveque looks lot like early Curtiss flying boat vice versa red ribbon leads floor-mounted sign few flown after several crashed cause design flaw dear readers bomber days bombers hardly ever hurt anyone Voisin i de lAir first days first aerial war historical pieces land older aircraft collection Chalais-Meudon pleasantly wooded estate southwest Paris has aeronautical past going back almost dawn human flight 1784 unscheduled landing ground balloon piloted Duke Chartres 100 years later 1884 itwas I-my years ago competatlon aerobatics game less power wing todays battles PiUs Specials Yet 1927 Morane-Saulnier A1 might hold its own 1980 Le Bourget Airfield modern airplanes dominate Musee newest hall American British French Jet fighters used French Air Force Once alive thunder powerful engines stilled foreveryet still alive April 1980 65 Anotner great leap torward beginning all-metal airplanes German Junkers F13 used corrugated skin like later Ju-52 waneot lot performance its power no match sophisticated Messerschmitts out-numbered open-cocipi1 parasou-wlngeu i-rencn aeroomic macnine mis Marcel Dorets pet Dewoitine 520 its Hispano V-B 5-roarin n yuu warn mu oe sure OT seeing rare nussian Yak ria War Ii Tigmer have go Le Bourget north Paris type used French unit serving Eastem Front World War II jet-powered delta wing may worlds smallest built Payen building radical designs back early 19305 some first deltas should light up eyes RCers looking something swift base worlds first controllable flying machine Renard Krebs La France dirigible made five-mile round trip 8k-hp electric motor present museum founded 1919 present building dedicated 1921 making oldest world As walk along narrow road leading up gate pass futuristic National Center Planetary Stellar Science rather old full-scale wind tunneL experimental nature Chalais-Meudon spans decades other half Musee de lAir located Le Bourget Airport once Paris main airline terminal now relegated special status because nearness flashy new DeGaulle Airport Bourget Charles Lindbergh landed after epic flight New York 1927 itis atBourgetthattheworlds largest important aerospace exhibitionthe Paris Air Show held odd-numbered year airlines moved out few years ago left lot empty hangars Musee de lAir moved dozens its airplanes Chalais-Meudon traditional home museum soit seems logical place start tour rare collection get leave Invalides Station train bound Versailles getting off about 15 minutes Meudon-Val Fleury 10-minute walk up Rue d Arthelon turn right onto Rue des Vertugadins youre guard will point way museum costs 66 Model Aviation 1930s air racing wasnt GeeBees Wedell Williamsthe Caudron C71 4R foreground less power yet speed American ft comes fast biplanes Russian 1-153 will stay best flew Spain racer prior World War II about 70 cents get first impression upon entering great ancient clutter Airplanes pieces airplanes everywhere look very old covered translucent fabric makes place look like vast collec tion ribs struts wires isnt far truth few minutes individual airplanes begin sort themselves out some familiar craft take shape Sitting floor small sign identify earliest serious attempts fly Europe Brazilian Alberto Santos Dumonts tiny Demoiselle empty weight 240 lbs about same 1979 foam-and-fiberglass Quicky carried its builder several short flights 1908 Next Romanian Vuias spindly craft a25 O2 motor may have made few hops 1906 other side aisle airplane just few years newer couple decades modem design beautifully streamlined Deperdussin dey-PAIR-doo-SAN first airplane top 200 km/hr straight line Maurice Prevost pilot won important Gordon Bennett race 1913 Its tightly cowled engine two-row 14-cylinder Gnome rotary Hanging ceiling opposite side building very first airplane fly off water land back Henri Fabre s Hydra vion did 1910 almost full year before Glen Curtiss flew first seaplane Fabre still living time words written built canard pusher watercraft because figured would less painful crash water land April 1980 67 Just climb aboard strap yourself down wait ear-shattering roar ram-jet begin Leduc 01 Owas strictlyfor research sci-fi films parallel powerplant principle think Dynajet European style pre-war racing Potaz 53 sped hours 200 mph despite its mere 300 hp contemporary Wedell Williams racers far first seaplane hangs older machine first heavier-than-air craft fly Chalais-Meudon most fly anyway 1905 Ferber biplane contra-rotating propellers operating concentric shafts would have great achievement flown 6-hp Buchet engine best could skim down slope suspended overhead cable Still front part ancient hangar rare Antoinette monoplanes graceful airplane 1909 set theme tens thousands followed has its engine nose mid-mounted wing fairly high aspect ratio tail consisting horizontal surface vertical surface such unusual idea now 70 years ago pretty radical nearby display case excellent model 1911 version Antoinette complete strikingly modem streamlining would several decades before rest world caught up some advanced ideas Among really successful airplanes pre-World War era Farman biplanes built brothers Henri Maurice more-orless original Henri Farman suspended just above heads visitors quaint French Continued page 125 68 Model Aviation first glance hail Le Bourget Airfield looks like storeroom during earthquake really has just compressed dynamic flight 1930s gaze upon lost mood days gone byand thats essential ingredient worthy museum ne eary nissory os -rencn aviation preserved silver Robert Moraneali 1/50th scale 12&131980 ckg0 Plan now attend unquestionably worlds greatest radio control show Open public three great days Presented Weak Signals R/C Club P0 Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April FRIDAY9 am 6 pm SATURDAY9am 6pm SUNDAY9am 430pm know what happens servos switch has left batteries drain servos go extreme end Thats exactly what happened about 230 morning Jack awoke start loud noise snapped light see Super Tiger 60 Skybolt come life tear across room proceed chew big hunks Out dads Bud Nosen /4 scale Aeronca Champ friends enough scare hell out anyone have suspected some time hobby becoming too complex. have strong suspicion preceding tale tall other hand friend brand new car selfstarted during night parked driveway ended up inside garage after having smashed hole through door No name wasnt Ripley illustrate propellers dont have mounted huge engines cause lot grief following comes letter received reader Nappanee Indiana starting Craft-Air Butterfly Two must admit accident really happened positioned myself front plane due very large wing area Once engine started reached across engine remove attached glowplug clip thought reached over arc prop alas didnt prop caught very tip first finger finger nail middle finger noticed blood shirt opposite hand wing plane before looked right hand prop made very clean deep cut tip first finger just under nail exposed deeper tissue finger middle finger prop smashed through nail cut deep tissue under nail hospital three stitches required close cut first finger nothing could done deep cut under nail middle finger except splint isnt major accident stretch mind John could have Im commercial artist loss finger loss nerve response could have very devastating family main reason elected reprint letter concerns statement last sentence above us stop think effect livelihood loss finger might have Any job requiring finger dexterity could jeopardized accident such involves 60 size engine instead mere 15 cu correspondent also stated time accident flying alone makes us shudder think what might have outcome engine ex-chainsaw powerplant wind up months safety column letter Larry Miles Mission KS has some worthwhile tips use chicken sticks engine starting have seen modelers using chicken sticks made rather hard material such aluminum rods hard fiberglass dowels etc engine backfires hits stick modeler does clear arc prop rapidly enoughWhack course thats idea device prop hits stick rather fingers potential safety hazard exists prop hits hard stick prop may crack internally visible later fail disastrous results think suggestion recommends chicken stick should also warn stick should covered softer material such several layers electrical friction duct tape perhaps leather Larry goes suggest alter native chicken stick leather glove finger thimble effective protective device agree Larry concludes letter saying following term chicken stick feel should discarded favor something such starter stick smart stick smart starter stick etc As presently named use term chicken stick encourages people especially ignorant beginner avoid like plague After wants chicken So have Whether youre ig norant beginner macho pattern pylon flier Smart Sticks make sense Have safe month John Preston 7012 Elvira Ct Falls Church VA 22042 Musee de lAir/Berliner Continued page 68 museum looking world like fugitive Magnificent Men Flying Machines copy Farman derivative flown film though modem engine rear half building taken up airplanes World War much fought above France little Voisin April 1980 125 anna an CAP YOUR CLUB LOGO Great IC CIubsI Let Know 1 Club Low Minimum Reasonable Prices Good Service Inquire about Call Write CustomWi printed TEETOP DOG tool Kt8N 4730 SW 75th Ave 4dUN i FL 33155 S 13051 261 -7768 L-A5 bomber sits simulated airfield what looks like its pilot inside crew ready give its prop whirl entire building dates time Great War effect old flying field lot realistic modern building escalators fluorescent lights trim delicate little Nieuport-Delage XI Bebe floats above Voisin its single handoperated Lewis machine gun ready far away 1910 Nieuport 2N monoplane shows marked family resemblance its militant descendant Among really rare World War types 30 Packard-LePere us built US Army Air Service French design two-seater has 400-hp American-built Liberty V-8 original aircraft Musee de Air collection along deHavilland dh9 Henri Farman addition complete aircraft museum parts some unusually historic craft gondola La France dirigible GRUMMAN WIDGEON MR Gs PRODUCTS 1100 Michigan Box 161 Marvsville MI 48040 flew almost 100 years ago hangs girders basket free balloons used during siege Paris 1870 collection artifacts survived century storage moisture moving about four terrible years Nazi occupation Gliders too represented oldest perhaps oldest anywhere 1879 Riot Planeur hangs right above entrance Near reproduction 1895 Lilienthal real 1904 Chanute glider Also hanging rafters flimsy looking Bleriot monoplane much like first cross English Channel Except has Pegoud lettered way across undersurface wings sign floor level connected airplane long red ribbon identifies personal airplane Adolphe Pegoud used achieve first inverted flight 1913 also first parachute airplane though obviously great joys visiting museum really looks like museum poking around corners search unknown treasure Ultra modern establishments like National Air & Space Museum dont have dark corners fun exploring discovering lost isnt case Chalais-Meudon corners hideaways await adven turous course building full nooks crannies will keep some its secrets Among aircraft searched vain actual Bleriot dear old Louis B flew France England 1 909 innaugurate international aviation Try might couldnt find Another airplane flatly refused show itself little Pou-Maquis Flying Flea built operated French Underground forces during World War II right under noses Germans may have undergoing maintenance may have practicing hiding case ever come back building mainly full-size aircraft usual need show aviation can possibly fitted available space models employed eye-catching Robert Morane collection of37 1/50th-scale models mostly older French aircraft molded silver Depending visitors enthusiasm very old flying things trip through Chalais-Meudon can take anywhere hour entire day either way time eventually comes must say adieu distant past Down road past wind tunnel space research labs Out gate walk back suburban railway station seems different now quaint little French streets shops have become part something bigger familiar train ride back center Paris hardly time review sights crammed ornate old hunk architecture estate once modern transpor tation devices struggled air sailed wherever uncertain French winds blew brave aeronauts Once back busy city its time plan second part tourto Le Bourget modern half French national aeronautical collection part little simpler long dont panic faced really quite useful easy-to-use Metro subway system First north via Line # 13 station called St Denis/Porte de Paris bus Aeroport thats about Musee de lAir currently occupies four connected hangars east side what used busy airline field lot functional single hangar Chalais Meudon airplanes inside everything seems fit hangars has theme least period time its airplanes belong Starting northerly come recent airplanes post-World War II era common museums around USA well spend least amount time Theres Mystere IV jet fighter early 1950s first various Mirage delta-winged jets US has contributed F-86 Sabre F100 Super Sabre though seems little out place AT-6 Texan trainer enter exit directly under twin tail booms deHavilland Vampire second big linked-together hangars houses airplanes used French research development thus full prototypes pretty much unknown Since French aviation industry has earned post war reputation building almost prototypes production-line airplanes hangar special interest Theres Trident 9000 slim jet engines ends its squarish wings Nord 126 Model Aviation toJeIs INTRODUCING JAil MER OSt IncQUALITY RIC PRODUCTS FEATURES MACHINED BALSA PARTS FULL SIZE PLANS COMPLETE HARDWARE PAC AL LANDING GEAR CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS ASSY INSTRUCTIONS SPECIFICATIONS SPANSO AREA500 LENGTH35-3/4 WEIGHT3-1/2 4 lbs ENGINE40 RADIO4 Channel Retail Price OUR SKY JAMMER IS FAST AND STEADY AND MAKES FANTASTIC PATTERN DEALERS TRAINER THE EXPERTS WILL AGREE THIS ISA FUN AIRCRAFT AND CAN RACE WITH STANDARD THE BEST OF THEM IT HAS TRICYCLE OR TAIL DRAGGER OPTION DEDUCTION BOX 226 BISBEE AZ 85603Phone 602 432 2329 Ultimate Flying Boat SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT Griffon sleek nose big air intake its turbo/ramiet engine blending somewhat crudely fat aft fuselage barrel-shaped Leduc 010 flying ramjet its pilot lying tubular cockpit inside engine looking like whole lot fun fly Parked floor can walk right up prototype Mirage Ill-V VTOL delta used eight smallish vertically mounted lift engines fuselage doors above below streamline use quite sophisticated expensive experi mental aircraft nearby Payen 49 Delta very small single-seater built pioneer design powered ajet engine 300 lbs thrust moved close 300 mph Hanging low ceiling original Jodel D9 Bebe single-seat all-wood homebuilt launched post-war French amateurconstruction movement played major role rebuilding lightplane industry hangar three planes World War II some fairly familiar air museum goer like P-Si Mustang P-47 Thunderbolt Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX Spanishbuilt Messerschmitt 109 Interesting sure hardly worth trouble journey way Paris though theres Focke Wulf 190 hall dont lose faith better come center hangar pair very rare French avions de chasse pursuit planes sadly brief period French fighting back Morane Saulnier 406 other Dewoitine pronounced DEH-wuh TEEN 520 Both well built seemingly well designed though little short armament didnt get much chance show stuff against clouds Messerschmitts Now eyes have grown accustomed scene brain starts register presence some really unusual types First theres chubby little radial-engined biplane looks sort like old Laird Solution racer turns out nothing less Russian Polikarpov 1-153 captivity sporty pursuit known during Spanish Civil War Chaika seagull considered fastest military biplane see large scale service got France remains mystery theres no question about being now near Mustang Spitfire generally similar looking airplane Russian Yak-3 Western world sleek low-wing fighter powered v-i 2 engine presented French Government appreciation Normandy Groupe French pilots flew alongside Russians Eastern Front low altitude said equal Bf-109 Spitfire best has saved until last objects fourth hangar have much say about history aviation hardly anything needed tojustif trip modest entranceway flanked set airplanes era Coupe Deutsch Race all-out longdistance speed event deserves far attention U S has received left radial-engined Potez 53 won 1933 race flying 1200 miles better 200 mph just 300 hp looks like Marcoux-Bromberg racer Earl Ortman flew several Thompson Trophy Races late 1930s right once finish drooling over Potez two count em Two long sleek Caudron Racers first fixed landing gear wheel pants type C366 according sign below Caudron expert Harry Robinson insists isnt real 366 very good imitation built taxi post-war movie looks real However airplane next three bladed prop retracted landing gear has met nit-pickers won proving genuine Caudron C7 14R intended attempt World Speed Record War interfered grandson Michel Detroyats 1936 Thompson Trophy winner never got chance make history Among airplanes hangar did exactly what meant trio hefty businesslike long-distance record setters Theres Breguet XIX flown Costes LeBrix St Louis Natal Africa i927 Bernard 19i flown Assolant Lefevre Lotti Old Orchard ME Spain back i 929 Breguet Super Bidon Question Mark bore Costes Bellonte world distance record almost 5000 miles 1929 became first men fly Atlantic east west machine i 930 flew Le Bourget Curtiss Field New York two airplanes used great French exhibition pilot Jean Cas ale SPAD Herbemont52 i92 1-vintage aerobatic plane powered 120-hp Gnome-Rhone rotary engine Nieuport-Delage 29C 1 used set world altitude record 3 1000 feet 1919 neat parasol-winged Morane Saulnier i airplane Fronval won major aerobatic meet 1927 still looks flyable Another parasol Dewoitine 530 favorite plane famous French demonstration pilots Marcel Doret 1937 1955 other lesser known airplanes mainly French origin scattered throughout two public sites Musee de lAir its storage restoration facilities what view constitutes quite possibly finest collec tion historic aircraft seen anywhere world Sure isnt anything compare Smithsonians Milestones Flight hall its Wright Flyer Spirit St Louis X- 1 15 manned spacecraft other aircraft museum just examples interesting types rather actual historic aircraft French Air Museum what see what did great things eons ago led eventually todays exotic-yet-useful airplanes like spectacular Concorde SST oh yes prototype Concorde 001 display just outside Musees hangars Bourget Aeroport seems make point historic aircraft need have struts wires April 1980 127
Edition: Model Aviation - 1980/04
Page Numbers: 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 125, 126, 127
NO OCR TEXT THE next time youre Paris looking over ancient chateau late uncle Jacques left just chasing wandering free-flight theres place youll have visit Actually its two places both great historical interest full marvelous important old avions what locals call airplanes Its Musee de lAir pronounced Myew 62 Model Aviation What smart young glider pilot wearing century ago 1879 Riot Planeur ZAY duh- LAIR means simply Museum Air possible exception Smithsonians National Air& Space Museum Washington has worlds finest collection truly historic flying things Unlike big American museum French displays almost single item owns ways its pure aviation aimed people appreciate what theyre seein& hav ing rooms jammed packed airplanes other ways its purely French being two distinct sections located 15 miles apartone northeastof Paris andthe other southwest Getting other involves subways trains buses feet lot waiting stations anyone likes get close aircraft played major roles history aviation minor inconveniences contrast other air museums around world French located very 1906 Vuja C02 motor stable quadracycle landing gear lacked thing Flyability 1910 Wrights Curtiss still struggling spindly open biplanes Eduard Nieuport gave world clean little monoplane type 2N modern doors compromise total feeling being simple sign attached old stone wall surrounding Uflalais-Meuclonback happened Within ancient building Chalais-Meudon tells tourist just short walk awayare aeronautical artifacts dating back almost two centuries warehouse wires widgets 1913 Deperdussin stands out likes Concorde Kitty Hawk should have taught world lesson about streamlining remarkable aircraft far ahead its time makes attractive model April 1980 63 wno overtoOK alter tney nad graooeo eariy lead tne race perfect airplane prototype pusher biplane first practical flying machines No original old Breguet biplane exists honor pioneer French manufacturers metal model acts stand-in Less two years after Orville Wilbur first flew brave M Ferber tried fly just 6 hp contra-rotating props 1912 Donnet-Leveque looks lot like early Curtiss flying boat vice versa red ribbon leads floor-mounted sign few flown after several crashed cause design flaw dear readers bomber days bombers hardly ever hurt anyone Voisin i de lAir first days first aerial war historical pieces land older aircraft collection Chalais-Meudon pleasantly wooded estate southwest Paris has aeronautical past going back almost dawn human flight 1784 unscheduled landing ground balloon piloted Duke Chartres 100 years later 1884 itwas I-my years ago competatlon aerobatics game less power wing todays battles PiUs Specials Yet 1927 Morane-Saulnier A1 might hold its own 1980 Le Bourget Airfield modern airplanes dominate Musee newest hall American British French Jet fighters used French Air Force Once alive thunder powerful engines stilled foreveryet still alive April 1980 65 Anotner great leap torward beginning all-metal airplanes German Junkers F13 used corrugated skin like later Ju-52 waneot lot performance its power no match sophisticated Messerschmitts out-numbered open-cocipi1 parasou-wlngeu i-rencn aeroomic macnine mis Marcel Dorets pet Dewoitine 520 its Hispano V-B 5-roarin n yuu warn mu oe sure OT seeing rare nussian Yak ria War Ii Tigmer have go Le Bourget north Paris type used French unit serving Eastem Front World War II jet-powered delta wing may worlds smallest built Payen building radical designs back early 19305 some first deltas should light up eyes RCers looking something swift base worlds first controllable flying machine Renard Krebs La France dirigible made five-mile round trip 8k-hp electric motor present museum founded 1919 present building dedicated 1921 making oldest world As walk along narrow road leading up gate pass futuristic National Center Planetary Stellar Science rather old full-scale wind tunneL experimental nature Chalais-Meudon spans decades other half Musee de lAir located Le Bourget Airport once Paris main airline terminal now relegated special status because nearness flashy new DeGaulle Airport Bourget Charles Lindbergh landed after epic flight New York 1927 itis atBourgetthattheworlds largest important aerospace exhibitionthe Paris Air Show held odd-numbered year airlines moved out few years ago left lot empty hangars Musee de lAir moved dozens its airplanes Chalais-Meudon traditional home museum soit seems logical place start tour rare collection get leave Invalides Station train bound Versailles getting off about 15 minutes Meudon-Val Fleury 10-minute walk up Rue d Arthelon turn right onto Rue des Vertugadins youre guard will point way museum costs 66 Model Aviation 1930s air racing wasnt GeeBees Wedell Williamsthe Caudron C71 4R foreground less power yet speed American ft comes fast biplanes Russian 1-153 will stay best flew Spain racer prior World War II about 70 cents get first impression upon entering great ancient clutter Airplanes pieces airplanes everywhere look very old covered translucent fabric makes place look like vast collec tion ribs struts wires isnt far truth few minutes individual airplanes begin sort themselves out some familiar craft take shape Sitting floor small sign identify earliest serious attempts fly Europe Brazilian Alberto Santos Dumonts tiny Demoiselle empty weight 240 lbs about same 1979 foam-and-fiberglass Quicky carried its builder several short flights 1908 Next Romanian Vuias spindly craft a25 O2 motor may have made few hops 1906 other side aisle airplane just few years newer couple decades modem design beautifully streamlined Deperdussin dey-PAIR-doo-SAN first airplane top 200 km/hr straight line Maurice Prevost pilot won important Gordon Bennett race 1913 Its tightly cowled engine two-row 14-cylinder Gnome rotary Hanging ceiling opposite side building very first airplane fly off water land back Henri Fabre s Hydra vion did 1910 almost full year before Glen Curtiss flew first seaplane Fabre still living time words written built canard pusher watercraft because figured would less painful crash water land April 1980 67 Just climb aboard strap yourself down wait ear-shattering roar ram-jet begin Leduc 01 Owas strictlyfor research sci-fi films parallel powerplant principle think Dynajet European style pre-war racing Potaz 53 sped hours 200 mph despite its mere 300 hp contemporary Wedell Williams racers far first seaplane hangs older machine first heavier-than-air craft fly Chalais-Meudon most fly anyway 1905 Ferber biplane contra-rotating propellers operating concentric shafts would have great achievement flown 6-hp Buchet engine best could skim down slope suspended overhead cable Still front part ancient hangar rare Antoinette monoplanes graceful airplane 1909 set theme tens thousands followed has its engine nose mid-mounted wing fairly high aspect ratio tail consisting horizontal surface vertical surface such unusual idea now 70 years ago pretty radical nearby display case excellent model 1911 version Antoinette complete strikingly modem streamlining would several decades before rest world caught up some advanced ideas Among really successful airplanes pre-World War era Farman biplanes built brothers Henri Maurice more-orless original Henri Farman suspended just above heads visitors quaint French Continued page 125 68 Model Aviation first glance hail Le Bourget Airfield looks like storeroom during earthquake really has just compressed dynamic flight 1930s gaze upon lost mood days gone byand thats essential ingredient worthy museum ne eary nissory os -rencn aviation preserved silver Robert Moraneali 1/50th scale 12&131980 ckg0 Plan now attend unquestionably worlds greatest radio control show Open public three great days Presented Weak Signals R/C Club P0 Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April FRIDAY9 am 6 pm SATURDAY9am 6pm SUNDAY9am 430pm know what happens servos switch has left batteries drain servos go extreme end Thats exactly what happened about 230 morning Jack awoke start loud noise snapped light see Super Tiger 60 Skybolt come life tear across room proceed chew big hunks Out dads Bud Nosen /4 scale Aeronca Champ friends enough scare hell out anyone have suspected some time hobby becoming too complex. have strong suspicion preceding tale tall other hand friend brand new car selfstarted during night parked driveway ended up inside garage after having smashed hole through door No name wasnt Ripley illustrate propellers dont have mounted huge engines cause lot grief following comes letter received reader Nappanee Indiana starting Craft-Air Butterfly Two must admit accident really happened positioned myself front plane due very large wing area Once engine started reached across engine remove attached glowplug clip thought reached over arc prop alas didnt prop caught very tip first finger finger nail middle finger noticed blood shirt opposite hand wing plane before looked right hand prop made very clean deep cut tip first finger just under nail exposed deeper tissue finger middle finger prop smashed through nail cut deep tissue under nail hospital three stitches required close cut first finger nothing could done deep cut under nail middle finger except splint isnt major accident stretch mind John could have Im commercial artist loss finger loss nerve response could have very devastating family main reason elected reprint letter concerns statement last sentence above us stop think effect livelihood loss finger might have Any job requiring finger dexterity could jeopardized accident such involves 60 size engine instead mere 15 cu correspondent also stated time accident flying alone makes us shudder think what might have outcome engine ex-chainsaw powerplant wind up months safety column letter Larry Miles Mission KS has some worthwhile tips use chicken sticks engine starting have seen modelers using chicken sticks made rather hard material such aluminum rods hard fiberglass dowels etc engine backfires hits stick modeler does clear arc prop rapidly enoughWhack course thats idea device prop hits stick rather fingers potential safety hazard exists prop hits hard stick prop may crack internally visible later fail disastrous results think suggestion recommends chicken stick should also warn stick should covered softer material such several layers electrical friction duct tape perhaps leather Larry goes suggest alter native chicken stick leather glove finger thimble effective protective device agree Larry concludes letter saying following term chicken stick feel should discarded favor something such starter stick smart stick smart starter stick etc As presently named use term chicken stick encourages people especially ignorant beginner avoid like plague After wants chicken So have Whether youre ig norant beginner macho pattern pylon flier Smart Sticks make sense Have safe month John Preston 7012 Elvira Ct Falls Church VA 22042 Musee de lAir/Berliner Continued page 68 museum looking world like fugitive Magnificent Men Flying Machines copy Farman derivative flown film though modem engine rear half building taken up airplanes World War much fought above France little Voisin April 1980 125 anna an CAP YOUR CLUB LOGO Great IC CIubsI Let Know 1 Club Low Minimum Reasonable Prices Good Service Inquire about Call Write CustomWi printed TEETOP DOG tool Kt8N 4730 SW 75th Ave 4dUN i FL 33155 S 13051 261 -7768 L-A5 bomber sits simulated airfield what looks like its pilot inside crew ready give its prop whirl entire building dates time Great War effect old flying field lot realistic modern building escalators fluorescent lights trim delicate little Nieuport-Delage XI Bebe floats above Voisin its single handoperated Lewis machine gun ready far away 1910 Nieuport 2N monoplane shows marked family resemblance its militant descendant Among really rare World War types 30 Packard-LePere us built US Army Air Service French design two-seater has 400-hp American-built Liberty V-8 original aircraft Musee de Air collection along deHavilland dh9 Henri Farman addition complete aircraft museum parts some unusually historic craft gondola La France dirigible GRUMMAN WIDGEON MR Gs PRODUCTS 1100 Michigan Box 161 Marvsville MI 48040 flew almost 100 years ago hangs girders basket free balloons used during siege Paris 1870 collection artifacts survived century storage moisture moving about four terrible years Nazi occupation Gliders too represented oldest perhaps oldest anywhere 1879 Riot Planeur hangs right above entrance Near reproduction 1895 Lilienthal real 1904 Chanute glider Also hanging rafters flimsy looking Bleriot monoplane much like first cross English Channel Except has Pegoud lettered way across undersurface wings sign floor level connected airplane long red ribbon identifies personal airplane Adolphe Pegoud used achieve first inverted flight 1913 also first parachute airplane though obviously great joys visiting museum really looks like museum poking around corners search unknown treasure Ultra modern establishments like National Air & Space Museum dont have dark corners fun exploring discovering lost isnt case Chalais-Meudon corners hideaways await adven turous course building full nooks crannies will keep some its secrets Among aircraft searched vain actual Bleriot dear old Louis B flew France England 1 909 innaugurate international aviation Try might couldnt find Another airplane flatly refused show itself little Pou-Maquis Flying Flea built operated French Underground forces during World War II right under noses Germans may have undergoing maintenance may have practicing hiding case ever come back building mainly full-size aircraft usual need show aviation can possibly fitted available space models employed eye-catching Robert Morane collection of37 1/50th-scale models mostly older French aircraft molded silver Depending visitors enthusiasm very old flying things trip through Chalais-Meudon can take anywhere hour entire day either way time eventually comes must say adieu distant past Down road past wind tunnel space research labs Out gate walk back suburban railway station seems different now quaint little French streets shops have become part something bigger familiar train ride back center Paris hardly time review sights crammed ornate old hunk architecture estate once modern transpor tation devices struggled air sailed wherever uncertain French winds blew brave aeronauts Once back busy city its time plan second part tourto Le Bourget modern half French national aeronautical collection part little simpler long dont panic faced really quite useful easy-to-use Metro subway system First north via Line # 13 station called St Denis/Porte de Paris bus Aeroport thats about Musee de lAir currently occupies four connected hangars east side what used busy airline field lot functional single hangar Chalais Meudon airplanes inside everything seems fit hangars has theme least period time its airplanes belong Starting northerly come recent airplanes post-World War II era common museums around USA well spend least amount time Theres Mystere IV jet fighter early 1950s first various Mirage delta-winged jets US has contributed F-86 Sabre F100 Super Sabre though seems little out place AT-6 Texan trainer enter exit directly under twin tail booms deHavilland Vampire second big linked-together hangars houses airplanes used French research development thus full prototypes pretty much unknown Since French aviation industry has earned post war reputation building almost prototypes production-line airplanes hangar special interest Theres Trident 9000 slim jet engines ends its squarish wings Nord 126 Model Aviation toJeIs INTRODUCING JAil MER OSt IncQUALITY RIC PRODUCTS FEATURES MACHINED BALSA PARTS FULL SIZE PLANS COMPLETE HARDWARE PAC AL LANDING GEAR CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS ASSY INSTRUCTIONS SPECIFICATIONS SPANSO AREA500 LENGTH35-3/4 WEIGHT3-1/2 4 lbs ENGINE40 RADIO4 Channel Retail Price OUR SKY JAMMER IS FAST AND STEADY AND MAKES FANTASTIC PATTERN DEALERS TRAINER THE EXPERTS WILL AGREE THIS ISA FUN AIRCRAFT AND CAN RACE WITH STANDARD THE BEST OF THEM IT HAS TRICYCLE OR TAIL DRAGGER OPTION DEDUCTION BOX 226 BISBEE AZ 85603Phone 602 432 2329 Ultimate Flying Boat SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT Griffon sleek nose big air intake its turbo/ramiet engine blending somewhat crudely fat aft fuselage barrel-shaped Leduc 010 flying ramjet its pilot lying tubular cockpit inside engine looking like whole lot fun fly Parked floor can walk right up prototype Mirage Ill-V VTOL delta used eight smallish vertically mounted lift engines fuselage doors above below streamline use quite sophisticated expensive experi mental aircraft nearby Payen 49 Delta very small single-seater built pioneer design powered ajet engine 300 lbs thrust moved close 300 mph Hanging low ceiling original Jodel D9 Bebe single-seat all-wood homebuilt launched post-war French amateurconstruction movement played major role rebuilding lightplane industry hangar three planes World War II some fairly familiar air museum goer like P-Si Mustang P-47 Thunderbolt Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX Spanishbuilt Messerschmitt 109 Interesting sure hardly worth trouble journey way Paris though theres Focke Wulf 190 hall dont lose faith better come center hangar pair very rare French avions de chasse pursuit planes sadly brief period French fighting back Morane Saulnier 406 other Dewoitine pronounced DEH-wuh TEEN 520 Both well built seemingly well designed though little short armament didnt get much chance show stuff against clouds Messerschmitts Now eyes have grown accustomed scene brain starts register presence some really unusual types First theres chubby little radial-engined biplane looks sort like old Laird Solution racer turns out nothing less Russian Polikarpov 1-153 captivity sporty pursuit known during Spanish Civil War Chaika seagull considered fastest military biplane see large scale service got France remains mystery theres no question about being now near Mustang Spitfire generally similar looking airplane Russian Yak-3 Western world sleek low-wing fighter powered v-i 2 engine presented French Government appreciation Normandy Groupe French pilots flew alongside Russians Eastern Front low altitude said equal Bf-109 Spitfire best has saved until last objects fourth hangar have much say about history aviation hardly anything needed tojustif trip modest entranceway flanked set airplanes era Coupe Deutsch Race all-out longdistance speed event deserves far attention U S has received left radial-engined Potez 53 won 1933 race flying 1200 miles better 200 mph just 300 hp looks like Marcoux-Bromberg racer Earl Ortman flew several Thompson Trophy Races late 1930s right once finish drooling over Potez two count em Two long sleek Caudron Racers first fixed landing gear wheel pants type C366 according sign below Caudron expert Harry Robinson insists isnt real 366 very good imitation built taxi post-war movie looks real However airplane next three bladed prop retracted landing gear has met nit-pickers won proving genuine Caudron C7 14R intended attempt World Speed Record War interfered grandson Michel Detroyats 1936 Thompson Trophy winner never got chance make history Among airplanes hangar did exactly what meant trio hefty businesslike long-distance record setters Theres Breguet XIX flown Costes LeBrix St Louis Natal Africa i927 Bernard 19i flown Assolant Lefevre Lotti Old Orchard ME Spain back i 929 Breguet Super Bidon Question Mark bore Costes Bellonte world distance record almost 5000 miles 1929 became first men fly Atlantic east west machine i 930 flew Le Bourget Curtiss Field New York two airplanes used great French exhibition pilot Jean Cas ale SPAD Herbemont52 i92 1-vintage aerobatic plane powered 120-hp Gnome-Rhone rotary engine Nieuport-Delage 29C 1 used set world altitude record 3 1000 feet 1919 neat parasol-winged Morane Saulnier i airplane Fronval won major aerobatic meet 1927 still looks flyable Another parasol Dewoitine 530 favorite plane famous French demonstration pilots Marcel Doret 1937 1955 other lesser known airplanes mainly French origin scattered throughout two public sites Musee de lAir its storage restoration facilities what view constitutes quite possibly finest collec tion historic aircraft seen anywhere world Sure isnt anything compare Smithsonians Milestones Flight hall its Wright Flyer Spirit St Louis X- 1 15 manned spacecraft other aircraft museum just examples interesting types rather actual historic aircraft French Air Museum what see what did great things eons ago led eventually todays exotic-yet-useful airplanes like spectacular Concorde SST oh yes prototype Concorde 001 display just outside Musees hangars Bourget Aeroport seems make point historic aircraft need have struts wires April 1980 127
Edition: Model Aviation - 1980/04
Page Numbers: 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 125, 126, 127
NO OCR TEXT THE next time youre Paris looking over ancient chateau late uncle Jacques left just chasing wandering free-flight theres place youll have visit Actually its two places both great historical interest full marvelous important old avions what locals call airplanes Its Musee de lAir pronounced Myew 62 Model Aviation What smart young glider pilot wearing century ago 1879 Riot Planeur ZAY duh- LAIR means simply Museum Air possible exception Smithsonians National Air& Space Museum Washington has worlds finest collection truly historic flying things Unlike big American museum French displays almost single item owns ways its pure aviation aimed people appreciate what theyre seein& hav ing rooms jammed packed airplanes other ways its purely French being two distinct sections located 15 miles apartone northeastof Paris andthe other southwest Getting other involves subways trains buses feet lot waiting stations anyone likes get close aircraft played major roles history aviation minor inconveniences contrast other air museums around world French located very 1906 Vuja C02 motor stable quadracycle landing gear lacked thing Flyability 1910 Wrights Curtiss still struggling spindly open biplanes Eduard Nieuport gave world clean little monoplane type 2N modern doors compromise total feeling being simple sign attached old stone wall surrounding Uflalais-Meuclonback happened Within ancient building Chalais-Meudon tells tourist just short walk awayare aeronautical artifacts dating back almost two centuries warehouse wires widgets 1913 Deperdussin stands out likes Concorde Kitty Hawk should have taught world lesson about streamlining remarkable aircraft far ahead its time makes attractive model April 1980 63 wno overtoOK alter tney nad graooeo eariy lead tne race perfect airplane prototype pusher biplane first practical flying machines No original old Breguet biplane exists honor pioneer French manufacturers metal model acts stand-in Less two years after Orville Wilbur first flew brave M Ferber tried fly just 6 hp contra-rotating props 1912 Donnet-Leveque looks lot like early Curtiss flying boat vice versa red ribbon leads floor-mounted sign few flown after several crashed cause design flaw dear readers bomber days bombers hardly ever hurt anyone Voisin i de lAir first days first aerial war historical pieces land older aircraft collection Chalais-Meudon pleasantly wooded estate southwest Paris has aeronautical past going back almost dawn human flight 1784 unscheduled landing ground balloon piloted Duke Chartres 100 years later 1884 itwas I-my years ago competatlon aerobatics game less power wing todays battles PiUs Specials Yet 1927 Morane-Saulnier A1 might hold its own 1980 Le Bourget Airfield modern airplanes dominate Musee newest hall American British French Jet fighters used French Air Force Once alive thunder powerful engines stilled foreveryet still alive April 1980 65 Anotner great leap torward beginning all-metal airplanes German Junkers F13 used corrugated skin like later Ju-52 waneot lot performance its power no match sophisticated Messerschmitts out-numbered open-cocipi1 parasou-wlngeu i-rencn aeroomic macnine mis Marcel Dorets pet Dewoitine 520 its Hispano V-B 5-roarin n yuu warn mu oe sure OT seeing rare nussian Yak ria War Ii Tigmer have go Le Bourget north Paris type used French unit serving Eastem Front World War II jet-powered delta wing may worlds smallest built Payen building radical designs back early 19305 some first deltas should light up eyes RCers looking something swift base worlds first controllable flying machine Renard Krebs La France dirigible made five-mile round trip 8k-hp electric motor present museum founded 1919 present building dedicated 1921 making oldest world As walk along narrow road leading up gate pass futuristic National Center Planetary Stellar Science rather old full-scale wind tunneL experimental nature Chalais-Meudon spans decades other half Musee de lAir located Le Bourget Airport once Paris main airline terminal now relegated special status because nearness flashy new DeGaulle Airport Bourget Charles Lindbergh landed after epic flight New York 1927 itis atBourgetthattheworlds largest important aerospace exhibitionthe Paris Air Show held odd-numbered year airlines moved out few years ago left lot empty hangars Musee de lAir moved dozens its airplanes Chalais-Meudon traditional home museum soit seems logical place start tour rare collection get leave Invalides Station train bound Versailles getting off about 15 minutes Meudon-Val Fleury 10-minute walk up Rue d Arthelon turn right onto Rue des Vertugadins youre guard will point way museum costs 66 Model Aviation 1930s air racing wasnt GeeBees Wedell Williamsthe Caudron C71 4R foreground less power yet speed American ft comes fast biplanes Russian 1-153 will stay best flew Spain racer prior World War II about 70 cents get first impression upon entering great ancient clutter Airplanes pieces airplanes everywhere look very old covered translucent fabric makes place look like vast collec tion ribs struts wires isnt far truth few minutes individual airplanes begin sort themselves out some familiar craft take shape Sitting floor small sign identify earliest serious attempts fly Europe Brazilian Alberto Santos Dumonts tiny Demoiselle empty weight 240 lbs about same 1979 foam-and-fiberglass Quicky carried its builder several short flights 1908 Next Romanian Vuias spindly craft a25 O2 motor may have made few hops 1906 other side aisle airplane just few years newer couple decades modem design beautifully streamlined Deperdussin dey-PAIR-doo-SAN first airplane top 200 km/hr straight line Maurice Prevost pilot won important Gordon Bennett race 1913 Its tightly cowled engine two-row 14-cylinder Gnome rotary Hanging ceiling opposite side building very first airplane fly off water land back Henri Fabre s Hydra vion did 1910 almost full year before Glen Curtiss flew first seaplane Fabre still living time words written built canard pusher watercraft because figured would less painful crash water land April 1980 67 Just climb aboard strap yourself down wait ear-shattering roar ram-jet begin Leduc 01 Owas strictlyfor research sci-fi films parallel powerplant principle think Dynajet European style pre-war racing Potaz 53 sped hours 200 mph despite its mere 300 hp contemporary Wedell Williams racers far first seaplane hangs older machine first heavier-than-air craft fly Chalais-Meudon most fly anyway 1905 Ferber biplane contra-rotating propellers operating concentric shafts would have great achievement flown 6-hp Buchet engine best could skim down slope suspended overhead cable Still front part ancient hangar rare Antoinette monoplanes graceful airplane 1909 set theme tens thousands followed has its engine nose mid-mounted wing fairly high aspect ratio tail consisting horizontal surface vertical surface such unusual idea now 70 years ago pretty radical nearby display case excellent model 1911 version Antoinette complete strikingly modem streamlining would several decades before rest world caught up some advanced ideas Among really successful airplanes pre-World War era Farman biplanes built brothers Henri Maurice more-orless original Henri Farman suspended just above heads visitors quaint French Continued page 125 68 Model Aviation first glance hail Le Bourget Airfield looks like storeroom during earthquake really has just compressed dynamic flight 1930s gaze upon lost mood days gone byand thats essential ingredient worthy museum ne eary nissory os -rencn aviation preserved silver Robert Moraneali 1/50th scale 12&131980 ckg0 Plan now attend unquestionably worlds greatest radio control show Open public three great days Presented Weak Signals R/C Club P0 Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April FRIDAY9 am 6 pm SATURDAY9am 6pm SUNDAY9am 430pm know what happens servos switch has left batteries drain servos go extreme end Thats exactly what happened about 230 morning Jack awoke start loud noise snapped light see Super Tiger 60 Skybolt come life tear across room proceed chew big hunks Out dads Bud Nosen /4 scale Aeronca Champ friends enough scare hell out anyone have suspected some time hobby becoming too complex. have strong suspicion preceding tale tall other hand friend brand new car selfstarted during night parked driveway ended up inside garage after having smashed hole through door No name wasnt Ripley illustrate propellers dont have mounted huge engines cause lot grief following comes letter received reader Nappanee Indiana starting Craft-Air Butterfly Two must admit accident really happened positioned myself front plane due very large wing area Once engine started reached across engine remove attached glowplug clip thought reached over arc prop alas didnt prop caught very tip first finger finger nail middle finger noticed blood shirt opposite hand wing plane before looked right hand prop made very clean deep cut tip first finger just under nail exposed deeper tissue finger middle finger prop smashed through nail cut deep tissue under nail hospital three stitches required close cut first finger nothing could done deep cut under nail middle finger except splint isnt major accident stretch mind John could have Im commercial artist loss finger loss nerve response could have very devastating family main reason elected reprint letter concerns statement last sentence above us stop think effect livelihood loss finger might have Any job requiring finger dexterity could jeopardized accident such involves 60 size engine instead mere 15 cu correspondent also stated time accident flying alone makes us shudder think what might have outcome engine ex-chainsaw powerplant wind up months safety column letter Larry Miles Mission KS has some worthwhile tips use chicken sticks engine starting have seen modelers using chicken sticks made rather hard material such aluminum rods hard fiberglass dowels etc engine backfires hits stick modeler does clear arc prop rapidly enoughWhack course thats idea device prop hits stick rather fingers potential safety hazard exists prop hits hard stick prop may crack internally visible later fail disastrous results think suggestion recommends chicken stick should also warn stick should covered softer material such several layers electrical friction duct tape perhaps leather Larry goes suggest alter native chicken stick leather glove finger thimble effective protective device agree Larry concludes letter saying following term chicken stick feel should discarded favor something such starter stick smart stick smart starter stick etc As presently named use term chicken stick encourages people especially ignorant beginner avoid like plague After wants chicken So have Whether youre ig norant beginner macho pattern pylon flier Smart Sticks make sense Have safe month John Preston 7012 Elvira Ct Falls Church VA 22042 Musee de lAir/Berliner Continued page 68 museum looking world like fugitive Magnificent Men Flying Machines copy Farman derivative flown film though modem engine rear half building taken up airplanes World War much fought above France little Voisin April 1980 125 anna an CAP YOUR CLUB LOGO Great IC CIubsI Let Know 1 Club Low Minimum Reasonable Prices Good Service Inquire about Call Write CustomWi printed TEETOP DOG tool Kt8N 4730 SW 75th Ave 4dUN i FL 33155 S 13051 261 -7768 L-A5 bomber sits simulated airfield what looks like its pilot inside crew ready give its prop whirl entire building dates time Great War effect old flying field lot realistic modern building escalators fluorescent lights trim delicate little Nieuport-Delage XI Bebe floats above Voisin its single handoperated Lewis machine gun ready far away 1910 Nieuport 2N monoplane shows marked family resemblance its militant descendant Among really rare World War types 30 Packard-LePere us built US Army Air Service French design two-seater has 400-hp American-built Liberty V-8 original aircraft Musee de Air collection along deHavilland dh9 Henri Farman addition complete aircraft museum parts some unusually historic craft gondola La France dirigible GRUMMAN WIDGEON MR Gs PRODUCTS 1100 Michigan Box 161 Marvsville MI 48040 flew almost 100 years ago hangs girders basket free balloons used during siege Paris 1870 collection artifacts survived century storage moisture moving about four terrible years Nazi occupation Gliders too represented oldest perhaps oldest anywhere 1879 Riot Planeur hangs right above entrance Near reproduction 1895 Lilienthal real 1904 Chanute glider Also hanging rafters flimsy looking Bleriot monoplane much like first cross English Channel Except has Pegoud lettered way across undersurface wings sign floor level connected airplane long red ribbon identifies personal airplane Adolphe Pegoud used achieve first inverted flight 1913 also first parachute airplane though obviously great joys visiting museum really looks like museum poking around corners search unknown treasure Ultra modern establishments like National Air & Space Museum dont have dark corners fun exploring discovering lost isnt case Chalais-Meudon corners hideaways await adven turous course building full nooks crannies will keep some its secrets Among aircraft searched vain actual Bleriot dear old Louis B flew France England 1 909 innaugurate international aviation Try might couldnt find Another airplane flatly refused show itself little Pou-Maquis Flying Flea built operated French Underground forces during World War II right under noses Germans may have undergoing maintenance may have practicing hiding case ever come back building mainly full-size aircraft usual need show aviation can possibly fitted available space models employed eye-catching Robert Morane collection of37 1/50th-scale models mostly older French aircraft molded silver Depending visitors enthusiasm very old flying things trip through Chalais-Meudon can take anywhere hour entire day either way time eventually comes must say adieu distant past Down road past wind tunnel space research labs Out gate walk back suburban railway station seems different now quaint little French streets shops have become part something bigger familiar train ride back center Paris hardly time review sights crammed ornate old hunk architecture estate once modern transpor tation devices struggled air sailed wherever uncertain French winds blew brave aeronauts Once back busy city its time plan second part tourto Le Bourget modern half French national aeronautical collection part little simpler long dont panic faced really quite useful easy-to-use Metro subway system First north via Line # 13 station called St Denis/Porte de Paris bus Aeroport thats about Musee de lAir currently occupies four connected hangars east side what used busy airline field lot functional single hangar Chalais Meudon airplanes inside everything seems fit hangars has theme least period time its airplanes belong Starting northerly come recent airplanes post-World War II era common museums around USA well spend least amount time Theres Mystere IV jet fighter early 1950s first various Mirage delta-winged jets US has contributed F-86 Sabre F100 Super Sabre though seems little out place AT-6 Texan trainer enter exit directly under twin tail booms deHavilland Vampire second big linked-together hangars houses airplanes used French research development thus full prototypes pretty much unknown Since French aviation industry has earned post war reputation building almost prototypes production-line airplanes hangar special interest Theres Trident 9000 slim jet engines ends its squarish wings Nord 126 Model Aviation toJeIs INTRODUCING JAil MER OSt IncQUALITY RIC PRODUCTS FEATURES MACHINED BALSA PARTS FULL SIZE PLANS COMPLETE HARDWARE PAC AL LANDING GEAR CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS ASSY INSTRUCTIONS SPECIFICATIONS SPANSO AREA500 LENGTH35-3/4 WEIGHT3-1/2 4 lbs ENGINE40 RADIO4 Channel Retail Price OUR SKY JAMMER IS FAST AND STEADY AND MAKES FANTASTIC PATTERN DEALERS TRAINER THE EXPERTS WILL AGREE THIS ISA FUN AIRCRAFT AND CAN RACE WITH STANDARD THE BEST OF THEM IT HAS TRICYCLE OR TAIL DRAGGER OPTION DEDUCTION BOX 226 BISBEE AZ 85603Phone 602 432 2329 Ultimate Flying Boat SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT Griffon sleek nose big air intake its turbo/ramiet engine blending somewhat crudely fat aft fuselage barrel-shaped Leduc 010 flying ramjet its pilot lying tubular cockpit inside engine looking like whole lot fun fly Parked floor can walk right up prototype Mirage Ill-V VTOL delta used eight smallish vertically mounted lift engines fuselage doors above below streamline use quite sophisticated expensive experi mental aircraft nearby Payen 49 Delta very small single-seater built pioneer design powered ajet engine 300 lbs thrust moved close 300 mph Hanging low ceiling original Jodel D9 Bebe single-seat all-wood homebuilt launched post-war French amateurconstruction movement played major role rebuilding lightplane industry hangar three planes World War II some fairly familiar air museum goer like P-Si Mustang P-47 Thunderbolt Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX Spanishbuilt Messerschmitt 109 Interesting sure hardly worth trouble journey way Paris though theres Focke Wulf 190 hall dont lose faith better come center hangar pair very rare French avions de chasse pursuit planes sadly brief period French fighting back Morane Saulnier 406 other Dewoitine pronounced DEH-wuh TEEN 520 Both well built seemingly well designed though little short armament didnt get much chance show stuff against clouds Messerschmitts Now eyes have grown accustomed scene brain starts register presence some really unusual types First theres chubby little radial-engined biplane looks sort like old Laird Solution racer turns out nothing less Russian Polikarpov 1-153 captivity sporty pursuit known during Spanish Civil War Chaika seagull considered fastest military biplane see large scale service got France remains mystery theres no question about being now near Mustang Spitfire generally similar looking airplane Russian Yak-3 Western world sleek low-wing fighter powered v-i 2 engine presented French Government appreciation Normandy Groupe French pilots flew alongside Russians Eastern Front low altitude said equal Bf-109 Spitfire best has saved until last objects fourth hangar have much say about history aviation hardly anything needed tojustif trip modest entranceway flanked set airplanes era Coupe Deutsch Race all-out longdistance speed event deserves far attention U S has received left radial-engined Potez 53 won 1933 race flying 1200 miles better 200 mph just 300 hp looks like Marcoux-Bromberg racer Earl Ortman flew several Thompson Trophy Races late 1930s right once finish drooling over Potez two count em Two long sleek Caudron Racers first fixed landing gear wheel pants type C366 according sign below Caudron expert Harry Robinson insists isnt real 366 very good imitation built taxi post-war movie looks real However airplane next three bladed prop retracted landing gear has met nit-pickers won proving genuine Caudron C7 14R intended attempt World Speed Record War interfered grandson Michel Detroyats 1936 Thompson Trophy winner never got chance make history Among airplanes hangar did exactly what meant trio hefty businesslike long-distance record setters Theres Breguet XIX flown Costes LeBrix St Louis Natal Africa i927 Bernard 19i flown Assolant Lefevre Lotti Old Orchard ME Spain back i 929 Breguet Super Bidon Question Mark bore Costes Bellonte world distance record almost 5000 miles 1929 became first men fly Atlantic east west machine i 930 flew Le Bourget Curtiss Field New York two airplanes used great French exhibition pilot Jean Cas ale SPAD Herbemont52 i92 1-vintage aerobatic plane powered 120-hp Gnome-Rhone rotary engine Nieuport-Delage 29C 1 used set world altitude record 3 1000 feet 1919 neat parasol-winged Morane Saulnier i airplane Fronval won major aerobatic meet 1927 still looks flyable Another parasol Dewoitine 530 favorite plane famous French demonstration pilots Marcel Doret 1937 1955 other lesser known airplanes mainly French origin scattered throughout two public sites Musee de lAir its storage restoration facilities what view constitutes quite possibly finest collec tion historic aircraft seen anywhere world Sure isnt anything compare Smithsonians Milestones Flight hall its Wright Flyer Spirit St Louis X- 1 15 manned spacecraft other aircraft museum just examples interesting types rather actual historic aircraft French Air Museum what see what did great things eons ago led eventually todays exotic-yet-useful airplanes like spectacular Concorde SST oh yes prototype Concorde 001 display just outside Musees hangars Bourget Aeroport seems make point historic aircraft need have struts wires April 1980 127
Edition: Model Aviation - 1980/04
Page Numbers: 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 125, 126, 127
NO OCR TEXT THE next time youre Paris looking over ancient chateau late uncle Jacques left just chasing wandering free-flight theres place youll have visit Actually its two places both great historical interest full marvelous important old avions what locals call airplanes Its Musee de lAir pronounced Myew 62 Model Aviation What smart young glider pilot wearing century ago 1879 Riot Planeur ZAY duh- LAIR means simply Museum Air possible exception Smithsonians National Air& Space Museum Washington has worlds finest collection truly historic flying things Unlike big American museum French displays almost single item owns ways its pure aviation aimed people appreciate what theyre seein& hav ing rooms jammed packed airplanes other ways its purely French being two distinct sections located 15 miles apartone northeastof Paris andthe other southwest Getting other involves subways trains buses feet lot waiting stations anyone likes get close aircraft played major roles history aviation minor inconveniences contrast other air museums around world French located very 1906 Vuja C02 motor stable quadracycle landing gear lacked thing Flyability 1910 Wrights Curtiss still struggling spindly open biplanes Eduard Nieuport gave world clean little monoplane type 2N modern doors compromise total feeling being simple sign attached old stone wall surrounding Uflalais-Meuclonback happened Within ancient building Chalais-Meudon tells tourist just short walk awayare aeronautical artifacts dating back almost two centuries warehouse wires widgets 1913 Deperdussin stands out likes Concorde Kitty Hawk should have taught world lesson about streamlining remarkable aircraft far ahead its time makes attractive model April 1980 63 wno overtoOK alter tney nad graooeo eariy lead tne race perfect airplane prototype pusher biplane first practical flying machines No original old Breguet biplane exists honor pioneer French manufacturers metal model acts stand-in Less two years after Orville Wilbur first flew brave M Ferber tried fly just 6 hp contra-rotating props 1912 Donnet-Leveque looks lot like early Curtiss flying boat vice versa red ribbon leads floor-mounted sign few flown after several crashed cause design flaw dear readers bomber days bombers hardly ever hurt anyone Voisin i de lAir first days first aerial war historical pieces land older aircraft collection Chalais-Meudon pleasantly wooded estate southwest Paris has aeronautical past going back almost dawn human flight 1784 unscheduled landing ground balloon piloted Duke Chartres 100 years later 1884 itwas I-my years ago competatlon aerobatics game less power wing todays battles PiUs Specials Yet 1927 Morane-Saulnier A1 might hold its own 1980 Le Bourget Airfield modern airplanes dominate Musee newest hall American British French Jet fighters used French Air Force Once alive thunder powerful engines stilled foreveryet still alive April 1980 65 Anotner great leap torward beginning all-metal airplanes German Junkers F13 used corrugated skin like later Ju-52 waneot lot performance its power no match sophisticated Messerschmitts out-numbered open-cocipi1 parasou-wlngeu i-rencn aeroomic macnine mis Marcel Dorets pet Dewoitine 520 its Hispano V-B 5-roarin n yuu warn mu oe sure OT seeing rare nussian Yak ria War Ii Tigmer have go Le Bourget north Paris type used French unit serving Eastem Front World War II jet-powered delta wing may worlds smallest built Payen building radical designs back early 19305 some first deltas should light up eyes RCers looking something swift base worlds first controllable flying machine Renard Krebs La France dirigible made five-mile round trip 8k-hp electric motor present museum founded 1919 present building dedicated 1921 making oldest world As walk along narrow road leading up gate pass futuristic National Center Planetary Stellar Science rather old full-scale wind tunneL experimental nature Chalais-Meudon spans decades other half Musee de lAir located Le Bourget Airport once Paris main airline terminal now relegated special status because nearness flashy new DeGaulle Airport Bourget Charles Lindbergh landed after epic flight New York 1927 itis atBourgetthattheworlds largest important aerospace exhibitionthe Paris Air Show held odd-numbered year airlines moved out few years ago left lot empty hangars Musee de lAir moved dozens its airplanes Chalais-Meudon traditional home museum soit seems logical place start tour rare collection get leave Invalides Station train bound Versailles getting off about 15 minutes Meudon-Val Fleury 10-minute walk up Rue d Arthelon turn right onto Rue des Vertugadins youre guard will point way museum costs 66 Model Aviation 1930s air racing wasnt GeeBees Wedell Williamsthe Caudron C71 4R foreground less power yet speed American ft comes fast biplanes Russian 1-153 will stay best flew Spain racer prior World War II about 70 cents get first impression upon entering great ancient clutter Airplanes pieces airplanes everywhere look very old covered translucent fabric makes place look like vast collec tion ribs struts wires isnt far truth few minutes individual airplanes begin sort themselves out some familiar craft take shape Sitting floor small sign identify earliest serious attempts fly Europe Brazilian Alberto Santos Dumonts tiny Demoiselle empty weight 240 lbs about same 1979 foam-and-fiberglass Quicky carried its builder several short flights 1908 Next Romanian Vuias spindly craft a25 O2 motor may have made few hops 1906 other side aisle airplane just few years newer couple decades modem design beautifully streamlined Deperdussin dey-PAIR-doo-SAN first airplane top 200 km/hr straight line Maurice Prevost pilot won important Gordon Bennett race 1913 Its tightly cowled engine two-row 14-cylinder Gnome rotary Hanging ceiling opposite side building very first airplane fly off water land back Henri Fabre s Hydra vion did 1910 almost full year before Glen Curtiss flew first seaplane Fabre still living time words written built canard pusher watercraft because figured would less painful crash water land April 1980 67 Just climb aboard strap yourself down wait ear-shattering roar ram-jet begin Leduc 01 Owas strictlyfor research sci-fi films parallel powerplant principle think Dynajet European style pre-war racing Potaz 53 sped hours 200 mph despite its mere 300 hp contemporary Wedell Williams racers far first seaplane hangs older machine first heavier-than-air craft fly Chalais-Meudon most fly anyway 1905 Ferber biplane contra-rotating propellers operating concentric shafts would have great achievement flown 6-hp Buchet engine best could skim down slope suspended overhead cable Still front part ancient hangar rare Antoinette monoplanes graceful airplane 1909 set theme tens thousands followed has its engine nose mid-mounted wing fairly high aspect ratio tail consisting horizontal surface vertical surface such unusual idea now 70 years ago pretty radical nearby display case excellent model 1911 version Antoinette complete strikingly modem streamlining would several decades before rest world caught up some advanced ideas Among really successful airplanes pre-World War era Farman biplanes built brothers Henri Maurice more-orless original Henri Farman suspended just above heads visitors quaint French Continued page 125 68 Model Aviation first glance hail Le Bourget Airfield looks like storeroom during earthquake really has just compressed dynamic flight 1930s gaze upon lost mood days gone byand thats essential ingredient worthy museum ne eary nissory os -rencn aviation preserved silver Robert Moraneali 1/50th scale 12&131980 ckg0 Plan now attend unquestionably worlds greatest radio control show Open public three great days Presented Weak Signals R/C Club P0 Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April FRIDAY9 am 6 pm SATURDAY9am 6pm SUNDAY9am 430pm know what happens servos switch has left batteries drain servos go extreme end Thats exactly what happened about 230 morning Jack awoke start loud noise snapped light see Super Tiger 60 Skybolt come life tear across room proceed chew big hunks Out dads Bud Nosen /4 scale Aeronca Champ friends enough scare hell out anyone have suspected some time hobby becoming too complex. have strong suspicion preceding tale tall other hand friend brand new car selfstarted during night parked driveway ended up inside garage after having smashed hole through door No name wasnt Ripley illustrate propellers dont have mounted huge engines cause lot grief following comes letter received reader Nappanee Indiana starting Craft-Air Butterfly Two must admit accident really happened positioned myself front plane due very large wing area Once engine started reached across engine remove attached glowplug clip thought reached over arc prop alas didnt prop caught very tip first finger finger nail middle finger noticed blood shirt opposite hand wing plane before looked right hand prop made very clean deep cut tip first finger just under nail exposed deeper tissue finger middle finger prop smashed through nail cut deep tissue under nail hospital three stitches required close cut first finger nothing could done deep cut under nail middle finger except splint isnt major accident stretch mind John could have Im commercial artist loss finger loss nerve response could have very devastating family main reason elected reprint letter concerns statement last sentence above us stop think effect livelihood loss finger might have Any job requiring finger dexterity could jeopardized accident such involves 60 size engine instead mere 15 cu correspondent also stated time accident flying alone makes us shudder think what might have outcome engine ex-chainsaw powerplant wind up months safety column letter Larry Miles Mission KS has some worthwhile tips use chicken sticks engine starting have seen modelers using chicken sticks made rather hard material such aluminum rods hard fiberglass dowels etc engine backfires hits stick modeler does clear arc prop rapidly enoughWhack course thats idea device prop hits stick rather fingers potential safety hazard exists prop hits hard stick prop may crack internally visible later fail disastrous results think suggestion recommends chicken stick should also warn stick should covered softer material such several layers electrical friction duct tape perhaps leather Larry goes suggest alter native chicken stick leather glove finger thimble effective protective device agree Larry concludes letter saying following term chicken stick feel should discarded favor something such starter stick smart stick smart starter stick etc As presently named use term chicken stick encourages people especially ignorant beginner avoid like plague After wants chicken So have Whether youre ig norant beginner macho pattern pylon flier Smart Sticks make sense Have safe month John Preston 7012 Elvira Ct Falls Church VA 22042 Musee de lAir/Berliner Continued page 68 museum looking world like fugitive Magnificent Men Flying Machines copy Farman derivative flown film though modem engine rear half building taken up airplanes World War much fought above France little Voisin April 1980 125 anna an CAP YOUR CLUB LOGO Great IC CIubsI Let Know 1 Club Low Minimum Reasonable Prices Good Service Inquire about Call Write CustomWi printed TEETOP DOG tool Kt8N 4730 SW 75th Ave 4dUN i FL 33155 S 13051 261 -7768 L-A5 bomber sits simulated airfield what looks like its pilot inside crew ready give its prop whirl entire building dates time Great War effect old flying field lot realistic modern building escalators fluorescent lights trim delicate little Nieuport-Delage XI Bebe floats above Voisin its single handoperated Lewis machine gun ready far away 1910 Nieuport 2N monoplane shows marked family resemblance its militant descendant Among really rare World War types 30 Packard-LePere us built US Army Air Service French design two-seater has 400-hp American-built Liberty V-8 original aircraft Musee de Air collection along deHavilland dh9 Henri Farman addition complete aircraft museum parts some unusually historic craft gondola La France dirigible GRUMMAN WIDGEON MR Gs PRODUCTS 1100 Michigan Box 161 Marvsville MI 48040 flew almost 100 years ago hangs girders basket free balloons used during siege Paris 1870 collection artifacts survived century storage moisture moving about four terrible years Nazi occupation Gliders too represented oldest perhaps oldest anywhere 1879 Riot Planeur hangs right above entrance Near reproduction 1895 Lilienthal real 1904 Chanute glider Also hanging rafters flimsy looking Bleriot monoplane much like first cross English Channel Except has Pegoud lettered way across undersurface wings sign floor level connected airplane long red ribbon identifies personal airplane Adolphe Pegoud used achieve first inverted flight 1913 also first parachute airplane though obviously great joys visiting museum really looks like museum poking around corners search unknown treasure Ultra modern establishments like National Air & Space Museum dont have dark corners fun exploring discovering lost isnt case Chalais-Meudon corners hideaways await adven turous course building full nooks crannies will keep some its secrets Among aircraft searched vain actual Bleriot dear old Louis B flew France England 1 909 innaugurate international aviation Try might couldnt find Another airplane flatly refused show itself little Pou-Maquis Flying Flea built operated French Underground forces during World War II right under noses Germans may have undergoing maintenance may have practicing hiding case ever come back building mainly full-size aircraft usual need show aviation can possibly fitted available space models employed eye-catching Robert Morane collection of37 1/50th-scale models mostly older French aircraft molded silver Depending visitors enthusiasm very old flying things trip through Chalais-Meudon can take anywhere hour entire day either way time eventually comes must say adieu distant past Down road past wind tunnel space research labs Out gate walk back suburban railway station seems different now quaint little French streets shops have become part something bigger familiar train ride back center Paris hardly time review sights crammed ornate old hunk architecture estate once modern transpor tation devices struggled air sailed wherever uncertain French winds blew brave aeronauts Once back busy city its time plan second part tourto Le Bourget modern half French national aeronautical collection part little simpler long dont panic faced really quite useful easy-to-use Metro subway system First north via Line # 13 station called St Denis/Porte de Paris bus Aeroport thats about Musee de lAir currently occupies four connected hangars east side what used busy airline field lot functional single hangar Chalais Meudon airplanes inside everything seems fit hangars has theme least period time its airplanes belong Starting northerly come recent airplanes post-World War II era common museums around USA well spend least amount time Theres Mystere IV jet fighter early 1950s first various Mirage delta-winged jets US has contributed F-86 Sabre F100 Super Sabre though seems little out place AT-6 Texan trainer enter exit directly under twin tail booms deHavilland Vampire second big linked-together hangars houses airplanes used French research development thus full prototypes pretty much unknown Since French aviation industry has earned post war reputation building almost prototypes production-line airplanes hangar special interest Theres Trident 9000 slim jet engines ends its squarish wings Nord 126 Model Aviation toJeIs INTRODUCING JAil MER OSt IncQUALITY RIC PRODUCTS FEATURES MACHINED BALSA PARTS FULL SIZE PLANS COMPLETE HARDWARE PAC AL LANDING GEAR CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS ASSY INSTRUCTIONS SPECIFICATIONS SPANSO AREA500 LENGTH35-3/4 WEIGHT3-1/2 4 lbs ENGINE40 RADIO4 Channel Retail Price OUR SKY JAMMER IS FAST AND STEADY AND MAKES FANTASTIC PATTERN DEALERS TRAINER THE EXPERTS WILL AGREE THIS ISA FUN AIRCRAFT AND CAN RACE WITH STANDARD THE BEST OF THEM IT HAS TRICYCLE OR TAIL DRAGGER OPTION DEDUCTION BOX 226 BISBEE AZ 85603Phone 602 432 2329 Ultimate Flying Boat SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT Griffon sleek nose big air intake its turbo/ramiet engine blending somewhat crudely fat aft fuselage barrel-shaped Leduc 010 flying ramjet its pilot lying tubular cockpit inside engine looking like whole lot fun fly Parked floor can walk right up prototype Mirage Ill-V VTOL delta used eight smallish vertically mounted lift engines fuselage doors above below streamline use quite sophisticated expensive experi mental aircraft nearby Payen 49 Delta very small single-seater built pioneer design powered ajet engine 300 lbs thrust moved close 300 mph Hanging low ceiling original Jodel D9 Bebe single-seat all-wood homebuilt launched post-war French amateurconstruction movement played major role rebuilding lightplane industry hangar three planes World War II some fairly familiar air museum goer like P-Si Mustang P-47 Thunderbolt Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX Spanishbuilt Messerschmitt 109 Interesting sure hardly worth trouble journey way Paris though theres Focke Wulf 190 hall dont lose faith better come center hangar pair very rare French avions de chasse pursuit planes sadly brief period French fighting back Morane Saulnier 406 other Dewoitine pronounced DEH-wuh TEEN 520 Both well built seemingly well designed though little short armament didnt get much chance show stuff against clouds Messerschmitts Now eyes have grown accustomed scene brain starts register presence some really unusual types First theres chubby little radial-engined biplane looks sort like old Laird Solution racer turns out nothing less Russian Polikarpov 1-153 captivity sporty pursuit known during Spanish Civil War Chaika seagull considered fastest military biplane see large scale service got France remains mystery theres no question about being now near Mustang Spitfire generally similar looking airplane Russian Yak-3 Western world sleek low-wing fighter powered v-i 2 engine presented French Government appreciation Normandy Groupe French pilots flew alongside Russians Eastern Front low altitude said equal Bf-109 Spitfire best has saved until last objects fourth hangar have much say about history aviation hardly anything needed tojustif trip modest entranceway flanked set airplanes era Coupe Deutsch Race all-out longdistance speed event deserves far attention U S has received left radial-engined Potez 53 won 1933 race flying 1200 miles better 200 mph just 300 hp looks like Marcoux-Bromberg racer Earl Ortman flew several Thompson Trophy Races late 1930s right once finish drooling over Potez two count em Two long sleek Caudron Racers first fixed landing gear wheel pants type C366 according sign below Caudron expert Harry Robinson insists isnt real 366 very good imitation built taxi post-war movie looks real However airplane next three bladed prop retracted landing gear has met nit-pickers won proving genuine Caudron C7 14R intended attempt World Speed Record War interfered grandson Michel Detroyats 1936 Thompson Trophy winner never got chance make history Among airplanes hangar did exactly what meant trio hefty businesslike long-distance record setters Theres Breguet XIX flown Costes LeBrix St Louis Natal Africa i927 Bernard 19i flown Assolant Lefevre Lotti Old Orchard ME Spain back i 929 Breguet Super Bidon Question Mark bore Costes Bellonte world distance record almost 5000 miles 1929 became first men fly Atlantic east west machine i 930 flew Le Bourget Curtiss Field New York two airplanes used great French exhibition pilot Jean Cas ale SPAD Herbemont52 i92 1-vintage aerobatic plane powered 120-hp Gnome-Rhone rotary engine Nieuport-Delage 29C 1 used set world altitude record 3 1000 feet 1919 neat parasol-winged Morane Saulnier i airplane Fronval won major aerobatic meet 1927 still looks flyable Another parasol Dewoitine 530 favorite plane famous French demonstration pilots Marcel Doret 1937 1955 other lesser known airplanes mainly French origin scattered throughout two public sites Musee de lAir its storage restoration facilities what view constitutes quite possibly finest collec tion historic aircraft seen anywhere world Sure isnt anything compare Smithsonians Milestones Flight hall its Wright Flyer Spirit St Louis X- 1 15 manned spacecraft other aircraft museum just examples interesting types rather actual historic aircraft French Air Museum what see what did great things eons ago led eventually todays exotic-yet-useful airplanes like spectacular Concorde SST oh yes prototype Concorde 001 display just outside Musees hangars Bourget Aeroport seems make point historic aircraft need have struts wires April 1980 127
Edition: Model Aviation - 1980/04
Page Numbers: 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 125, 126, 127
NO OCR TEXT THE next time youre Paris looking over ancient chateau late uncle Jacques left just chasing wandering free-flight theres place youll have visit Actually its two places both great historical interest full marvelous important old avions what locals call airplanes Its Musee de lAir pronounced Myew 62 Model Aviation What smart young glider pilot wearing century ago 1879 Riot Planeur ZAY duh- LAIR means simply Museum Air possible exception Smithsonians National Air& Space Museum Washington has worlds finest collection truly historic flying things Unlike big American museum French displays almost single item owns ways its pure aviation aimed people appreciate what theyre seein& hav ing rooms jammed packed airplanes other ways its purely French being two distinct sections located 15 miles apartone northeastof Paris andthe other southwest Getting other involves subways trains buses feet lot waiting stations anyone likes get close aircraft played major roles history aviation minor inconveniences contrast other air museums around world French located very 1906 Vuja C02 motor stable quadracycle landing gear lacked thing Flyability 1910 Wrights Curtiss still struggling spindly open biplanes Eduard Nieuport gave world clean little monoplane type 2N modern doors compromise total feeling being simple sign attached old stone wall surrounding Uflalais-Meuclonback happened Within ancient building Chalais-Meudon tells tourist just short walk awayare aeronautical artifacts dating back almost two centuries warehouse wires widgets 1913 Deperdussin stands out likes Concorde Kitty Hawk should have taught world lesson about streamlining remarkable aircraft far ahead its time makes attractive model April 1980 63 wno overtoOK alter tney nad graooeo eariy lead tne race perfect airplane prototype pusher biplane first practical flying machines No original old Breguet biplane exists honor pioneer French manufacturers metal model acts stand-in Less two years after Orville Wilbur first flew brave M Ferber tried fly just 6 hp contra-rotating props 1912 Donnet-Leveque looks lot like early Curtiss flying boat vice versa red ribbon leads floor-mounted sign few flown after several crashed cause design flaw dear readers bomber days bombers hardly ever hurt anyone Voisin i de lAir first days first aerial war historical pieces land older aircraft collection Chalais-Meudon pleasantly wooded estate southwest Paris has aeronautical past going back almost dawn human flight 1784 unscheduled landing ground balloon piloted Duke Chartres 100 years later 1884 itwas I-my years ago competatlon aerobatics game less power wing todays battles PiUs Specials Yet 1927 Morane-Saulnier A1 might hold its own 1980 Le Bourget Airfield modern airplanes dominate Musee newest hall American British French Jet fighters used French Air Force Once alive thunder powerful engines stilled foreveryet still alive April 1980 65 Anotner great leap torward beginning all-metal airplanes German Junkers F13 used corrugated skin like later Ju-52 waneot lot performance its power no match sophisticated Messerschmitts out-numbered open-cocipi1 parasou-wlngeu i-rencn aeroomic macnine mis Marcel Dorets pet Dewoitine 520 its Hispano V-B 5-roarin n yuu warn mu oe sure OT seeing rare nussian Yak ria War Ii Tigmer have go Le Bourget north Paris type used French unit serving Eastem Front World War II jet-powered delta wing may worlds smallest built Payen building radical designs back early 19305 some first deltas should light up eyes RCers looking something swift base worlds first controllable flying machine Renard Krebs La France dirigible made five-mile round trip 8k-hp electric motor present museum founded 1919 present building dedicated 1921 making oldest world As walk along narrow road leading up gate pass futuristic National Center Planetary Stellar Science rather old full-scale wind tunneL experimental nature Chalais-Meudon spans decades other half Musee de lAir located Le Bourget Airport once Paris main airline terminal now relegated special status because nearness flashy new DeGaulle Airport Bourget Charles Lindbergh landed after epic flight New York 1927 itis atBourgetthattheworlds largest important aerospace exhibitionthe Paris Air Show held odd-numbered year airlines moved out few years ago left lot empty hangars Musee de lAir moved dozens its airplanes Chalais-Meudon traditional home museum soit seems logical place start tour rare collection get leave Invalides Station train bound Versailles getting off about 15 minutes Meudon-Val Fleury 10-minute walk up Rue d Arthelon turn right onto Rue des Vertugadins youre guard will point way museum costs 66 Model Aviation 1930s air racing wasnt GeeBees Wedell Williamsthe Caudron C71 4R foreground less power yet speed American ft comes fast biplanes Russian 1-153 will stay best flew Spain racer prior World War II about 70 cents get first impression upon entering great ancient clutter Airplanes pieces airplanes everywhere look very old covered translucent fabric makes place look like vast collec tion ribs struts wires isnt far truth few minutes individual airplanes begin sort themselves out some familiar craft take shape Sitting floor small sign identify earliest serious attempts fly Europe Brazilian Alberto Santos Dumonts tiny Demoiselle empty weight 240 lbs about same 1979 foam-and-fiberglass Quicky carried its builder several short flights 1908 Next Romanian Vuias spindly craft a25 O2 motor may have made few hops 1906 other side aisle airplane just few years newer couple decades modem design beautifully streamlined Deperdussin dey-PAIR-doo-SAN first airplane top 200 km/hr straight line Maurice Prevost pilot won important Gordon Bennett race 1913 Its tightly cowled engine two-row 14-cylinder Gnome rotary Hanging ceiling opposite side building very first airplane fly off water land back Henri Fabre s Hydra vion did 1910 almost full year before Glen Curtiss flew first seaplane Fabre still living time words written built canard pusher watercraft because figured would less painful crash water land April 1980 67 Just climb aboard strap yourself down wait ear-shattering roar ram-jet begin Leduc 01 Owas strictlyfor research sci-fi films parallel powerplant principle think Dynajet European style pre-war racing Potaz 53 sped hours 200 mph despite its mere 300 hp contemporary Wedell Williams racers far first seaplane hangs older machine first heavier-than-air craft fly Chalais-Meudon most fly anyway 1905 Ferber biplane contra-rotating propellers operating concentric shafts would have great achievement flown 6-hp Buchet engine best could skim down slope suspended overhead cable Still front part ancient hangar rare Antoinette monoplanes graceful airplane 1909 set theme tens thousands followed has its engine nose mid-mounted wing fairly high aspect ratio tail consisting horizontal surface vertical surface such unusual idea now 70 years ago pretty radical nearby display case excellent model 1911 version Antoinette complete strikingly modem streamlining would several decades before rest world caught up some advanced ideas Among really successful airplanes pre-World War era Farman biplanes built brothers Henri Maurice more-orless original Henri Farman suspended just above heads visitors quaint French Continued page 125 68 Model Aviation first glance hail Le Bourget Airfield looks like storeroom during earthquake really has just compressed dynamic flight 1930s gaze upon lost mood days gone byand thats essential ingredient worthy museum ne eary nissory os -rencn aviation preserved silver Robert Moraneali 1/50th scale 12&131980 ckg0 Plan now attend unquestionably worlds greatest radio control show Open public three great days Presented Weak Signals R/C Club P0 Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April FRIDAY9 am 6 pm SATURDAY9am 6pm SUNDAY9am 430pm know what happens servos switch has left batteries drain servos go extreme end Thats exactly what happened about 230 morning Jack awoke start loud noise snapped light see Super Tiger 60 Skybolt come life tear across room proceed chew big hunks Out dads Bud Nosen /4 scale Aeronca Champ friends enough scare hell out anyone have suspected some time hobby becoming too complex. have strong suspicion preceding tale tall other hand friend brand new car selfstarted during night parked driveway ended up inside garage after having smashed hole through door No name wasnt Ripley illustrate propellers dont have mounted huge engines cause lot grief following comes letter received reader Nappanee Indiana starting Craft-Air Butterfly Two must admit accident really happened positioned myself front plane due very large wing area Once engine started reached across engine remove attached glowplug clip thought reached over arc prop alas didnt prop caught very tip first finger finger nail middle finger noticed blood shirt opposite hand wing plane before looked right hand prop made very clean deep cut tip first finger just under nail exposed deeper tissue finger middle finger prop smashed through nail cut deep tissue under nail hospital three stitches required close cut first finger nothing could done deep cut under nail middle finger except splint isnt major accident stretch mind John could have Im commercial artist loss finger loss nerve response could have very devastating family main reason elected reprint letter concerns statement last sentence above us stop think effect livelihood loss finger might have Any job requiring finger dexterity could jeopardized accident such involves 60 size engine instead mere 15 cu correspondent also stated time accident flying alone makes us shudder think what might have outcome engine ex-chainsaw powerplant wind up months safety column letter Larry Miles Mission KS has some worthwhile tips use chicken sticks engine starting have seen modelers using chicken sticks made rather hard material such aluminum rods hard fiberglass dowels etc engine backfires hits stick modeler does clear arc prop rapidly enoughWhack course thats idea device prop hits stick rather fingers potential safety hazard exists prop hits hard stick prop may crack internally visible later fail disastrous results think suggestion recommends chicken stick should also warn stick should covered softer material such several layers electrical friction duct tape perhaps leather Larry goes suggest alter native chicken stick leather glove finger thimble effective protective device agree Larry concludes letter saying following term chicken stick feel should discarded favor something such starter stick smart stick smart starter stick etc As presently named use term chicken stick encourages people especially ignorant beginner avoid like plague After wants chicken So have Whether youre ig norant beginner macho pattern pylon flier Smart Sticks make sense Have safe month John Preston 7012 Elvira Ct Falls Church VA 22042 Musee de lAir/Berliner Continued page 68 museum looking world like fugitive Magnificent Men Flying Machines copy Farman derivative flown film though modem engine rear half building taken up airplanes World War much fought above France little Voisin April 1980 125 anna an CAP YOUR CLUB LOGO Great IC CIubsI Let Know 1 Club Low Minimum Reasonable Prices Good Service Inquire about Call Write CustomWi printed TEETOP DOG tool Kt8N 4730 SW 75th Ave 4dUN i FL 33155 S 13051 261 -7768 L-A5 bomber sits simulated airfield what looks like its pilot inside crew ready give its prop whirl entire building dates time Great War effect old flying field lot realistic modern building escalators fluorescent lights trim delicate little Nieuport-Delage XI Bebe floats above Voisin its single handoperated Lewis machine gun ready far away 1910 Nieuport 2N monoplane shows marked family resemblance its militant descendant Among really rare World War types 30 Packard-LePere us built US Army Air Service French design two-seater has 400-hp American-built Liberty V-8 original aircraft Musee de Air collection along deHavilland dh9 Henri Farman addition complete aircraft museum parts some unusually historic craft gondola La France dirigible GRUMMAN WIDGEON MR Gs PRODUCTS 1100 Michigan Box 161 Marvsville MI 48040 flew almost 100 years ago hangs girders basket free balloons used during siege Paris 1870 collection artifacts survived century storage moisture moving about four terrible years Nazi occupation Gliders too represented oldest perhaps oldest anywhere 1879 Riot Planeur hangs right above entrance Near reproduction 1895 Lilienthal real 1904 Chanute glider Also hanging rafters flimsy looking Bleriot monoplane much like first cross English Channel Except has Pegoud lettered way across undersurface wings sign floor level connected airplane long red ribbon identifies personal airplane Adolphe Pegoud used achieve first inverted flight 1913 also first parachute airplane though obviously great joys visiting museum really looks like museum poking around corners search unknown treasure Ultra modern establishments like National Air & Space Museum dont have dark corners fun exploring discovering lost isnt case Chalais-Meudon corners hideaways await adven turous course building full nooks crannies will keep some its secrets Among aircraft searched vain actual Bleriot dear old Louis B flew France England 1 909 innaugurate international aviation Try might couldnt find Another airplane flatly refused show itself little Pou-Maquis Flying Flea built operated French Underground forces during World War II right under noses Germans may have undergoing maintenance may have practicing hiding case ever come back building mainly full-size aircraft usual need show aviation can possibly fitted available space models employed eye-catching Robert Morane collection of37 1/50th-scale models mostly older French aircraft molded silver Depending visitors enthusiasm very old flying things trip through Chalais-Meudon can take anywhere hour entire day either way time eventually comes must say adieu distant past Down road past wind tunnel space research labs Out gate walk back suburban railway station seems different now quaint little French streets shops have become part something bigger familiar train ride back center Paris hardly time review sights crammed ornate old hunk architecture estate once modern transpor tation devices struggled air sailed wherever uncertain French winds blew brave aeronauts Once back busy city its time plan second part tourto Le Bourget modern half French national aeronautical collection part little simpler long dont panic faced really quite useful easy-to-use Metro subway system First north via Line # 13 station called St Denis/Porte de Paris bus Aeroport thats about Musee de lAir currently occupies four connected hangars east side what used busy airline field lot functional single hangar Chalais Meudon airplanes inside everything seems fit hangars has theme least period time its airplanes belong Starting northerly come recent airplanes post-World War II era common museums around USA well spend least amount time Theres Mystere IV jet fighter early 1950s first various Mirage delta-winged jets US has contributed F-86 Sabre F100 Super Sabre though seems little out place AT-6 Texan trainer enter exit directly under twin tail booms deHavilland Vampire second big linked-together hangars houses airplanes used French research development thus full prototypes pretty much unknown Since French aviation industry has earned post war reputation building almost prototypes production-line airplanes hangar special interest Theres Trident 9000 slim jet engines ends its squarish wings Nord 126 Model Aviation toJeIs INTRODUCING JAil MER OSt IncQUALITY RIC PRODUCTS FEATURES MACHINED BALSA PARTS FULL SIZE PLANS COMPLETE HARDWARE PAC AL LANDING GEAR CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS ASSY INSTRUCTIONS SPECIFICATIONS SPANSO AREA500 LENGTH35-3/4 WEIGHT3-1/2 4 lbs ENGINE40 RADIO4 Channel Retail Price OUR SKY JAMMER IS FAST AND STEADY AND MAKES FANTASTIC PATTERN DEALERS TRAINER THE EXPERTS WILL AGREE THIS ISA FUN AIRCRAFT AND CAN RACE WITH STANDARD THE BEST OF THEM IT HAS TRICYCLE OR TAIL DRAGGER OPTION DEDUCTION BOX 226 BISBEE AZ 85603Phone 602 432 2329 Ultimate Flying Boat SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT Griffon sleek nose big air intake its turbo/ramiet engine blending somewhat crudely fat aft fuselage barrel-shaped Leduc 010 flying ramjet its pilot lying tubular cockpit inside engine looking like whole lot fun fly Parked floor can walk right up prototype Mirage Ill-V VTOL delta used eight smallish vertically mounted lift engines fuselage doors above below streamline use quite sophisticated expensive experi mental aircraft nearby Payen 49 Delta very small single-seater built pioneer design powered ajet engine 300 lbs thrust moved close 300 mph Hanging low ceiling original Jodel D9 Bebe single-seat all-wood homebuilt launched post-war French amateurconstruction movement played major role rebuilding lightplane industry hangar three planes World War II some fairly familiar air museum goer like P-Si Mustang P-47 Thunderbolt Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX Spanishbuilt Messerschmitt 109 Interesting sure hardly worth trouble journey way Paris though theres Focke Wulf 190 hall dont lose faith better come center hangar pair very rare French avions de chasse pursuit planes sadly brief period French fighting back Morane Saulnier 406 other Dewoitine pronounced DEH-wuh TEEN 520 Both well built seemingly well designed though little short armament didnt get much chance show stuff against clouds Messerschmitts Now eyes have grown accustomed scene brain starts register presence some really unusual types First theres chubby little radial-engined biplane looks sort like old Laird Solution racer turns out nothing less Russian Polikarpov 1-153 captivity sporty pursuit known during Spanish Civil War Chaika seagull considered fastest military biplane see large scale service got France remains mystery theres no question about being now near Mustang Spitfire generally similar looking airplane Russian Yak-3 Western world sleek low-wing fighter powered v-i 2 engine presented French Government appreciation Normandy Groupe French pilots flew alongside Russians Eastern Front low altitude said equal Bf-109 Spitfire best has saved until last objects fourth hangar have much say about history aviation hardly anything needed tojustif trip modest entranceway flanked set airplanes era Coupe Deutsch Race all-out longdistance speed event deserves far attention U S has received left radial-engined Potez 53 won 1933 race flying 1200 miles better 200 mph just 300 hp looks like Marcoux-Bromberg racer Earl Ortman flew several Thompson Trophy Races late 1930s right once finish drooling over Potez two count em Two long sleek Caudron Racers first fixed landing gear wheel pants type C366 according sign below Caudron expert Harry Robinson insists isnt real 366 very good imitation built taxi post-war movie looks real However airplane next three bladed prop retracted landing gear has met nit-pickers won proving genuine Caudron C7 14R intended attempt World Speed Record War interfered grandson Michel Detroyats 1936 Thompson Trophy winner never got chance make history Among airplanes hangar did exactly what meant trio hefty businesslike long-distance record setters Theres Breguet XIX flown Costes LeBrix St Louis Natal Africa i927 Bernard 19i flown Assolant Lefevre Lotti Old Orchard ME Spain back i 929 Breguet Super Bidon Question Mark bore Costes Bellonte world distance record almost 5000 miles 1929 became first men fly Atlantic east west machine i 930 flew Le Bourget Curtiss Field New York two airplanes used great French exhibition pilot Jean Cas ale SPAD Herbemont52 i92 1-vintage aerobatic plane powered 120-hp Gnome-Rhone rotary engine Nieuport-Delage 29C 1 used set world altitude record 3 1000 feet 1919 neat parasol-winged Morane Saulnier i airplane Fronval won major aerobatic meet 1927 still looks flyable Another parasol Dewoitine 530 favorite plane famous French demonstration pilots Marcel Doret 1937 1955 other lesser known airplanes mainly French origin scattered throughout two public sites Musee de lAir its storage restoration facilities what view constitutes quite possibly finest collec tion historic aircraft seen anywhere world Sure isnt anything compare Smithsonians Milestones Flight hall its Wright Flyer Spirit St Louis X- 1 15 manned spacecraft other aircraft museum just examples interesting types rather actual historic aircraft French Air Museum what see what did great things eons ago led eventually todays exotic-yet-useful airplanes like spectacular Concorde SST oh yes prototype Concorde 001 display just outside Musees hangars Bourget Aeroport seems make point historic aircraft need have struts wires April 1980 127
Edition: Model Aviation - 1980/04
Page Numbers: 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 125, 126, 127
NO OCR TEXT THE next time youre Paris looking over ancient chateau late uncle Jacques left just chasing wandering free-flight theres place youll have visit Actually its two places both great historical interest full marvelous important old avions what locals call airplanes Its Musee de lAir pronounced Myew 62 Model Aviation What smart young glider pilot wearing century ago 1879 Riot Planeur ZAY duh- LAIR means simply Museum Air possible exception Smithsonians National Air& Space Museum Washington has worlds finest collection truly historic flying things Unlike big American museum French displays almost single item owns ways its pure aviation aimed people appreciate what theyre seein& hav ing rooms jammed packed airplanes other ways its purely French being two distinct sections located 15 miles apartone northeastof Paris andthe other southwest Getting other involves subways trains buses feet lot waiting stations anyone likes get close aircraft played major roles history aviation minor inconveniences contrast other air museums around world French located very 1906 Vuja C02 motor stable quadracycle landing gear lacked thing Flyability 1910 Wrights Curtiss still struggling spindly open biplanes Eduard Nieuport gave world clean little monoplane type 2N modern doors compromise total feeling being simple sign attached old stone wall surrounding Uflalais-Meuclonback happened Within ancient building Chalais-Meudon tells tourist just short walk awayare aeronautical artifacts dating back almost two centuries warehouse wires widgets 1913 Deperdussin stands out likes Concorde Kitty Hawk should have taught world lesson about streamlining remarkable aircraft far ahead its time makes attractive model April 1980 63 wno overtoOK alter tney nad graooeo eariy lead tne race perfect airplane prototype pusher biplane first practical flying machines No original old Breguet biplane exists honor pioneer French manufacturers metal model acts stand-in Less two years after Orville Wilbur first flew brave M Ferber tried fly just 6 hp contra-rotating props 1912 Donnet-Leveque looks lot like early Curtiss flying boat vice versa red ribbon leads floor-mounted sign few flown after several crashed cause design flaw dear readers bomber days bombers hardly ever hurt anyone Voisin i de lAir first days first aerial war historical pieces land older aircraft collection Chalais-Meudon pleasantly wooded estate southwest Paris has aeronautical past going back almost dawn human flight 1784 unscheduled landing ground balloon piloted Duke Chartres 100 years later 1884 itwas I-my years ago competatlon aerobatics game less power wing todays battles PiUs Specials Yet 1927 Morane-Saulnier A1 might hold its own 1980 Le Bourget Airfield modern airplanes dominate Musee newest hall American British French Jet fighters used French Air Force Once alive thunder powerful engines stilled foreveryet still alive April 1980 65 Anotner great leap torward beginning all-metal airplanes German Junkers F13 used corrugated skin like later Ju-52 waneot lot performance its power no match sophisticated Messerschmitts out-numbered open-cocipi1 parasou-wlngeu i-rencn aeroomic macnine mis Marcel Dorets pet Dewoitine 520 its Hispano V-B 5-roarin n yuu warn mu oe sure OT seeing rare nussian Yak ria War Ii Tigmer have go Le Bourget north Paris type used French unit serving Eastem Front World War II jet-powered delta wing may worlds smallest built Payen building radical designs back early 19305 some first deltas should light up eyes RCers looking something swift base worlds first controllable flying machine Renard Krebs La France dirigible made five-mile round trip 8k-hp electric motor present museum founded 1919 present building dedicated 1921 making oldest world As walk along narrow road leading up gate pass futuristic National Center Planetary Stellar Science rather old full-scale wind tunneL experimental nature Chalais-Meudon spans decades other half Musee de lAir located Le Bourget Airport once Paris main airline terminal now relegated special status because nearness flashy new DeGaulle Airport Bourget Charles Lindbergh landed after epic flight New York 1927 itis atBourgetthattheworlds largest important aerospace exhibitionthe Paris Air Show held odd-numbered year airlines moved out few years ago left lot empty hangars Musee de lAir moved dozens its airplanes Chalais-Meudon traditional home museum soit seems logical place start tour rare collection get leave Invalides Station train bound Versailles getting off about 15 minutes Meudon-Val Fleury 10-minute walk up Rue d Arthelon turn right onto Rue des Vertugadins youre guard will point way museum costs 66 Model Aviation 1930s air racing wasnt GeeBees Wedell Williamsthe Caudron C71 4R foreground less power yet speed American ft comes fast biplanes Russian 1-153 will stay best flew Spain racer prior World War II about 70 cents get first impression upon entering great ancient clutter Airplanes pieces airplanes everywhere look very old covered translucent fabric makes place look like vast collec tion ribs struts wires isnt far truth few minutes individual airplanes begin sort themselves out some familiar craft take shape Sitting floor small sign identify earliest serious attempts fly Europe Brazilian Alberto Santos Dumonts tiny Demoiselle empty weight 240 lbs about same 1979 foam-and-fiberglass Quicky carried its builder several short flights 1908 Next Romanian Vuias spindly craft a25 O2 motor may have made few hops 1906 other side aisle airplane just few years newer couple decades modem design beautifully streamlined Deperdussin dey-PAIR-doo-SAN first airplane top 200 km/hr straight line Maurice Prevost pilot won important Gordon Bennett race 1913 Its tightly cowled engine two-row 14-cylinder Gnome rotary Hanging ceiling opposite side building very first airplane fly off water land back Henri Fabre s Hydra vion did 1910 almost full year before Glen Curtiss flew first seaplane Fabre still living time words written built canard pusher watercraft because figured would less painful crash water land April 1980 67 Just climb aboard strap yourself down wait ear-shattering roar ram-jet begin Leduc 01 Owas strictlyfor research sci-fi films parallel powerplant principle think Dynajet European style pre-war racing Potaz 53 sped hours 200 mph despite its mere 300 hp contemporary Wedell Williams racers far first seaplane hangs older machine first heavier-than-air craft fly Chalais-Meudon most fly anyway 1905 Ferber biplane contra-rotating propellers operating concentric shafts would have great achievement flown 6-hp Buchet engine best could skim down slope suspended overhead cable Still front part ancient hangar rare Antoinette monoplanes graceful airplane 1909 set theme tens thousands followed has its engine nose mid-mounted wing fairly high aspect ratio tail consisting horizontal surface vertical surface such unusual idea now 70 years ago pretty radical nearby display case excellent model 1911 version Antoinette complete strikingly modem streamlining would several decades before rest world caught up some advanced ideas Among really successful airplanes pre-World War era Farman biplanes built brothers Henri Maurice more-orless original Henri Farman suspended just above heads visitors quaint French Continued page 125 68 Model Aviation first glance hail Le Bourget Airfield looks like storeroom during earthquake really has just compressed dynamic flight 1930s gaze upon lost mood days gone byand thats essential ingredient worthy museum ne eary nissory os -rencn aviation preserved silver Robert Moraneali 1/50th scale 12&131980 ckg0 Plan now attend unquestionably worlds greatest radio control show Open public three great days Presented Weak Signals R/C Club P0 Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April FRIDAY9 am 6 pm SATURDAY9am 6pm SUNDAY9am 430pm know what happens servos switch has left batteries drain servos go extreme end Thats exactly what happened about 230 morning Jack awoke start loud noise snapped light see Super Tiger 60 Skybolt come life tear across room proceed chew big hunks Out dads Bud Nosen /4 scale Aeronca Champ friends enough scare hell out anyone have suspected some time hobby becoming too complex. have strong suspicion preceding tale tall other hand friend brand new car selfstarted during night parked driveway ended up inside garage after having smashed hole through door No name wasnt Ripley illustrate propellers dont have mounted huge engines cause lot grief following comes letter received reader Nappanee Indiana starting Craft-Air Butterfly Two must admit accident really happened positioned myself front plane due very large wing area Once engine started reached across engine remove attached glowplug clip thought reached over arc prop alas didnt prop caught very tip first finger finger nail middle finger noticed blood shirt opposite hand wing plane before looked right hand prop made very clean deep cut tip first finger just under nail exposed deeper tissue finger middle finger prop smashed through nail cut deep tissue under nail hospital three stitches required close cut first finger nothing could done deep cut under nail middle finger except splint isnt major accident stretch mind John could have Im commercial artist loss finger loss nerve response could have very devastating family main reason elected reprint letter concerns statement last sentence above us stop think effect livelihood loss finger might have Any job requiring finger dexterity could jeopardized accident such involves 60 size engine instead mere 15 cu correspondent also stated time accident flying alone makes us shudder think what might have outcome engine ex-chainsaw powerplant wind up months safety column letter Larry Miles Mission KS has some worthwhile tips use chicken sticks engine starting have seen modelers using chicken sticks made rather hard material such aluminum rods hard fiberglass dowels etc engine backfires hits stick modeler does clear arc prop rapidly enoughWhack course thats idea device prop hits stick rather fingers potential safety hazard exists prop hits hard stick prop may crack internally visible later fail disastrous results think suggestion recommends chicken stick should also warn stick should covered softer material such several layers electrical friction duct tape perhaps leather Larry goes suggest alter native chicken stick leather glove finger thimble effective protective device agree Larry concludes letter saying following term chicken stick feel should discarded favor something such starter stick smart stick smart starter stick etc As presently named use term chicken stick encourages people especially ignorant beginner avoid like plague After wants chicken So have Whether youre ig norant beginner macho pattern pylon flier Smart Sticks make sense Have safe month John Preston 7012 Elvira Ct Falls Church VA 22042 Musee de lAir/Berliner Continued page 68 museum looking world like fugitive Magnificent Men Flying Machines copy Farman derivative flown film though modem engine rear half building taken up airplanes World War much fought above France little Voisin April 1980 125 anna an CAP YOUR CLUB LOGO Great IC CIubsI Let Know 1 Club Low Minimum Reasonable Prices Good Service Inquire about Call Write CustomWi printed TEETOP DOG tool Kt8N 4730 SW 75th Ave 4dUN i FL 33155 S 13051 261 -7768 L-A5 bomber sits simulated airfield what looks like its pilot inside crew ready give its prop whirl entire building dates time Great War effect old flying field lot realistic modern building escalators fluorescent lights trim delicate little Nieuport-Delage XI Bebe floats above Voisin its single handoperated Lewis machine gun ready far away 1910 Nieuport 2N monoplane shows marked family resemblance its militant descendant Among really rare World War types 30 Packard-LePere us built US Army Air Service French design two-seater has 400-hp American-built Liberty V-8 original aircraft Musee de Air collection along deHavilland dh9 Henri Farman addition complete aircraft museum parts some unusually historic craft gondola La France dirigible GRUMMAN WIDGEON MR Gs PRODUCTS 1100 Michigan Box 161 Marvsville MI 48040 flew almost 100 years ago hangs girders basket free balloons used during siege Paris 1870 collection artifacts survived century storage moisture moving about four terrible years Nazi occupation Gliders too represented oldest perhaps oldest anywhere 1879 Riot Planeur hangs right above entrance Near reproduction 1895 Lilienthal real 1904 Chanute glider Also hanging rafters flimsy looking Bleriot monoplane much like first cross English Channel Except has Pegoud lettered way across undersurface wings sign floor level connected airplane long red ribbon identifies personal airplane Adolphe Pegoud used achieve first inverted flight 1913 also first parachute airplane though obviously great joys visiting museum really looks like museum poking around corners search unknown treasure Ultra modern establishments like National Air & Space Museum dont have dark corners fun exploring discovering lost isnt case Chalais-Meudon corners hideaways await adven turous course building full nooks crannies will keep some its secrets Among aircraft searched vain actual Bleriot dear old Louis B flew France England 1 909 innaugurate international aviation Try might couldnt find Another airplane flatly refused show itself little Pou-Maquis Flying Flea built operated French Underground forces during World War II right under noses Germans may have undergoing maintenance may have practicing hiding case ever come back building mainly full-size aircraft usual need show aviation can possibly fitted available space models employed eye-catching Robert Morane collection of37 1/50th-scale models mostly older French aircraft molded silver Depending visitors enthusiasm very old flying things trip through Chalais-Meudon can take anywhere hour entire day either way time eventually comes must say adieu distant past Down road past wind tunnel space research labs Out gate walk back suburban railway station seems different now quaint little French streets shops have become part something bigger familiar train ride back center Paris hardly time review sights crammed ornate old hunk architecture estate once modern transpor tation devices struggled air sailed wherever uncertain French winds blew brave aeronauts Once back busy city its time plan second part tourto Le Bourget modern half French national aeronautical collection part little simpler long dont panic faced really quite useful easy-to-use Metro subway system First north via Line # 13 station called St Denis/Porte de Paris bus Aeroport thats about Musee de lAir currently occupies four connected hangars east side what used busy airline field lot functional single hangar Chalais Meudon airplanes inside everything seems fit hangars has theme least period time its airplanes belong Starting northerly come recent airplanes post-World War II era common museums around USA well spend least amount time Theres Mystere IV jet fighter early 1950s first various Mirage delta-winged jets US has contributed F-86 Sabre F100 Super Sabre though seems little out place AT-6 Texan trainer enter exit directly under twin tail booms deHavilland Vampire second big linked-together hangars houses airplanes used French research development thus full prototypes pretty much unknown Since French aviation industry has earned post war reputation building almost prototypes production-line airplanes hangar special interest Theres Trident 9000 slim jet engines ends its squarish wings Nord 126 Model Aviation toJeIs INTRODUCING JAil MER OSt IncQUALITY RIC PRODUCTS FEATURES MACHINED BALSA PARTS FULL SIZE PLANS COMPLETE HARDWARE PAC AL LANDING GEAR CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS ASSY INSTRUCTIONS SPECIFICATIONS SPANSO AREA500 LENGTH35-3/4 WEIGHT3-1/2 4 lbs ENGINE40 RADIO4 Channel Retail Price OUR SKY JAMMER IS FAST AND STEADY AND MAKES FANTASTIC PATTERN DEALERS TRAINER THE EXPERTS WILL AGREE THIS ISA FUN AIRCRAFT AND CAN RACE WITH STANDARD THE BEST OF THEM IT HAS TRICYCLE OR TAIL DRAGGER OPTION DEDUCTION BOX 226 BISBEE AZ 85603Phone 602 432 2329 Ultimate Flying Boat SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT Griffon sleek nose big air intake its turbo/ramiet engine blending somewhat crudely fat aft fuselage barrel-shaped Leduc 010 flying ramjet its pilot lying tubular cockpit inside engine looking like whole lot fun fly Parked floor can walk right up prototype Mirage Ill-V VTOL delta used eight smallish vertically mounted lift engines fuselage doors above below streamline use quite sophisticated expensive experi mental aircraft nearby Payen 49 Delta very small single-seater built pioneer design powered ajet engine 300 lbs thrust moved close 300 mph Hanging low ceiling original Jodel D9 Bebe single-seat all-wood homebuilt launched post-war French amateurconstruction movement played major role rebuilding lightplane industry hangar three planes World War II some fairly familiar air museum goer like P-Si Mustang P-47 Thunderbolt Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX Spanishbuilt Messerschmitt 109 Interesting sure hardly worth trouble journey way Paris though theres Focke Wulf 190 hall dont lose faith better come center hangar pair very rare French avions de chasse pursuit planes sadly brief period French fighting back Morane Saulnier 406 other Dewoitine pronounced DEH-wuh TEEN 520 Both well built seemingly well designed though little short armament didnt get much chance show stuff against clouds Messerschmitts Now eyes have grown accustomed scene brain starts register presence some really unusual types First theres chubby little radial-engined biplane looks sort like old Laird Solution racer turns out nothing less Russian Polikarpov 1-153 captivity sporty pursuit known during Spanish Civil War Chaika seagull considered fastest military biplane see large scale service got France remains mystery theres no question about being now near Mustang Spitfire generally similar looking airplane Russian Yak-3 Western world sleek low-wing fighter powered v-i 2 engine presented French Government appreciation Normandy Groupe French pilots flew alongside Russians Eastern Front low altitude said equal Bf-109 Spitfire best has saved until last objects fourth hangar have much say about history aviation hardly anything needed tojustif trip modest entranceway flanked set airplanes era Coupe Deutsch Race all-out longdistance speed event deserves far attention U S has received left radial-engined Potez 53 won 1933 race flying 1200 miles better 200 mph just 300 hp looks like Marcoux-Bromberg racer Earl Ortman flew several Thompson Trophy Races late 1930s right once finish drooling over Potez two count em Two long sleek Caudron Racers first fixed landing gear wheel pants type C366 according sign below Caudron expert Harry Robinson insists isnt real 366 very good imitation built taxi post-war movie looks real However airplane next three bladed prop retracted landing gear has met nit-pickers won proving genuine Caudron C7 14R intended attempt World Speed Record War interfered grandson Michel Detroyats 1936 Thompson Trophy winner never got chance make history Among airplanes hangar did exactly what meant trio hefty businesslike long-distance record setters Theres Breguet XIX flown Costes LeBrix St Louis Natal Africa i927 Bernard 19i flown Assolant Lefevre Lotti Old Orchard ME Spain back i 929 Breguet Super Bidon Question Mark bore Costes Bellonte world distance record almost 5000 miles 1929 became first men fly Atlantic east west machine i 930 flew Le Bourget Curtiss Field New York two airplanes used great French exhibition pilot Jean Cas ale SPAD Herbemont52 i92 1-vintage aerobatic plane powered 120-hp Gnome-Rhone rotary engine Nieuport-Delage 29C 1 used set world altitude record 3 1000 feet 1919 neat parasol-winged Morane Saulnier i airplane Fronval won major aerobatic meet 1927 still looks flyable Another parasol Dewoitine 530 favorite plane famous French demonstration pilots Marcel Doret 1937 1955 other lesser known airplanes mainly French origin scattered throughout two public sites Musee de lAir its storage restoration facilities what view constitutes quite possibly finest collec tion historic aircraft seen anywhere world Sure isnt anything compare Smithsonians Milestones Flight hall its Wright Flyer Spirit St Louis X- 1 15 manned spacecraft other aircraft museum just examples interesting types rather actual historic aircraft French Air Museum what see what did great things eons ago led eventually todays exotic-yet-useful airplanes like spectacular Concorde SST oh yes prototype Concorde 001 display just outside Musees hangars Bourget Aeroport seems make point historic aircraft need have struts wires April 1980 127
Edition: Model Aviation - 1980/04
Page Numbers: 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 125, 126, 127
NO OCR TEXT THE next time youre Paris looking over ancient chateau late uncle Jacques left just chasing wandering free-flight theres place youll have visit Actually its two places both great historical interest full marvelous important old avions what locals call airplanes Its Musee de lAir pronounced Myew 62 Model Aviation What smart young glider pilot wearing century ago 1879 Riot Planeur ZAY duh- LAIR means simply Museum Air possible exception Smithsonians National Air& Space Museum Washington has worlds finest collection truly historic flying things Unlike big American museum French displays almost single item owns ways its pure aviation aimed people appreciate what theyre seein& hav ing rooms jammed packed airplanes other ways its purely French being two distinct sections located 15 miles apartone northeastof Paris andthe other southwest Getting other involves subways trains buses feet lot waiting stations anyone likes get close aircraft played major roles history aviation minor inconveniences contrast other air museums around world French located very 1906 Vuja C02 motor stable quadracycle landing gear lacked thing Flyability 1910 Wrights Curtiss still struggling spindly open biplanes Eduard Nieuport gave world clean little monoplane type 2N modern doors compromise total feeling being simple sign attached old stone wall surrounding Uflalais-Meuclonback happened Within ancient building Chalais-Meudon tells tourist just short walk awayare aeronautical artifacts dating back almost two centuries warehouse wires widgets 1913 Deperdussin stands out likes Concorde Kitty Hawk should have taught world lesson about streamlining remarkable aircraft far ahead its time makes attractive model April 1980 63 wno overtoOK alter tney nad graooeo eariy lead tne race perfect airplane prototype pusher biplane first practical flying machines No original old Breguet biplane exists honor pioneer French manufacturers metal model acts stand-in Less two years after Orville Wilbur first flew brave M Ferber tried fly just 6 hp contra-rotating props 1912 Donnet-Leveque looks lot like early Curtiss flying boat vice versa red ribbon leads floor-mounted sign few flown after several crashed cause design flaw dear readers bomber days bombers hardly ever hurt anyone Voisin i de lAir first days first aerial war historical pieces land older aircraft collection Chalais-Meudon pleasantly wooded estate southwest Paris has aeronautical past going back almost dawn human flight 1784 unscheduled landing ground balloon piloted Duke Chartres 100 years later 1884 itwas I-my years ago competatlon aerobatics game less power wing todays battles PiUs Specials Yet 1927 Morane-Saulnier A1 might hold its own 1980 Le Bourget Airfield modern airplanes dominate Musee newest hall American British French Jet fighters used French Air Force Once alive thunder powerful engines stilled foreveryet still alive April 1980 65 Anotner great leap torward beginning all-metal airplanes German Junkers F13 used corrugated skin like later Ju-52 waneot lot performance its power no match sophisticated Messerschmitts out-numbered open-cocipi1 parasou-wlngeu i-rencn aeroomic macnine mis Marcel Dorets pet Dewoitine 520 its Hispano V-B 5-roarin n yuu warn mu oe sure OT seeing rare nussian Yak ria War Ii Tigmer have go Le Bourget north Paris type used French unit serving Eastem Front World War II jet-powered delta wing may worlds smallest built Payen building radical designs back early 19305 some first deltas should light up eyes RCers looking something swift base worlds first controllable flying machine Renard Krebs La France dirigible made five-mile round trip 8k-hp electric motor present museum founded 1919 present building dedicated 1921 making oldest world As walk along narrow road leading up gate pass futuristic National Center Planetary Stellar Science rather old full-scale wind tunneL experimental nature Chalais-Meudon spans decades other half Musee de lAir located Le Bourget Airport once Paris main airline terminal now relegated special status because nearness flashy new DeGaulle Airport Bourget Charles Lindbergh landed after epic flight New York 1927 itis atBourgetthattheworlds largest important aerospace exhibitionthe Paris Air Show held odd-numbered year airlines moved out few years ago left lot empty hangars Musee de lAir moved dozens its airplanes Chalais-Meudon traditional home museum soit seems logical place start tour rare collection get leave Invalides Station train bound Versailles getting off about 15 minutes Meudon-Val Fleury 10-minute walk up Rue d Arthelon turn right onto Rue des Vertugadins youre guard will point way museum costs 66 Model Aviation 1930s air racing wasnt GeeBees Wedell Williamsthe Caudron C71 4R foreground less power yet speed American ft comes fast biplanes Russian 1-153 will stay best flew Spain racer prior World War II about 70 cents get first impression upon entering great ancient clutter Airplanes pieces airplanes everywhere look very old covered translucent fabric makes place look like vast collec tion ribs struts wires isnt far truth few minutes individual airplanes begin sort themselves out some familiar craft take shape Sitting floor small sign identify earliest serious attempts fly Europe Brazilian Alberto Santos Dumonts tiny Demoiselle empty weight 240 lbs about same 1979 foam-and-fiberglass Quicky carried its builder several short flights 1908 Next Romanian Vuias spindly craft a25 O2 motor may have made few hops 1906 other side aisle airplane just few years newer couple decades modem design beautifully streamlined Deperdussin dey-PAIR-doo-SAN first airplane top 200 km/hr straight line Maurice Prevost pilot won important Gordon Bennett race 1913 Its tightly cowled engine two-row 14-cylinder Gnome rotary Hanging ceiling opposite side building very first airplane fly off water land back Henri Fabre s Hydra vion did 1910 almost full year before Glen Curtiss flew first seaplane Fabre still living time words written built canard pusher watercraft because figured would less painful crash water land April 1980 67 Just climb aboard strap yourself down wait ear-shattering roar ram-jet begin Leduc 01 Owas strictlyfor research sci-fi films parallel powerplant principle think Dynajet European style pre-war racing Potaz 53 sped hours 200 mph despite its mere 300 hp contemporary Wedell Williams racers far first seaplane hangs older machine first heavier-than-air craft fly Chalais-Meudon most fly anyway 1905 Ferber biplane contra-rotating propellers operating concentric shafts would have great achievement flown 6-hp Buchet engine best could skim down slope suspended overhead cable Still front part ancient hangar rare Antoinette monoplanes graceful airplane 1909 set theme tens thousands followed has its engine nose mid-mounted wing fairly high aspect ratio tail consisting horizontal surface vertical surface such unusual idea now 70 years ago pretty radical nearby display case excellent model 1911 version Antoinette complete strikingly modem streamlining would several decades before rest world caught up some advanced ideas Among really successful airplanes pre-World War era Farman biplanes built brothers Henri Maurice more-orless original Henri Farman suspended just above heads visitors quaint French Continued page 125 68 Model Aviation first glance hail Le Bourget Airfield looks like storeroom during earthquake really has just compressed dynamic flight 1930s gaze upon lost mood days gone byand thats essential ingredient worthy museum ne eary nissory os -rencn aviation preserved silver Robert Moraneali 1/50th scale 12&131980 ckg0 Plan now attend unquestionably worlds greatest radio control show Open public three great days Presented Weak Signals R/C Club P0 Box 5772 Toledo Ohio 43613 April FRIDAY9 am 6 pm SATURDAY9am 6pm SUNDAY9am 430pm know what happens servos switch has left batteries drain servos go extreme end Thats exactly what happened about 230 morning Jack awoke start loud noise snapped light see Super Tiger 60 Skybolt come life tear across room proceed chew big hunks Out dads Bud Nosen /4 scale Aeronca Champ friends enough scare hell out anyone have suspected some time hobby becoming too complex. have strong suspicion preceding tale tall other hand friend brand new car selfstarted during night parked driveway ended up inside garage after having smashed hole through door No name wasnt Ripley illustrate propellers dont have mounted huge engines cause lot grief following comes letter received reader Nappanee Indiana starting Craft-Air Butterfly Two must admit accident really happened positioned myself front plane due very large wing area Once engine started reached across engine remove attached glowplug clip thought reached over arc prop alas didnt prop caught very tip first finger finger nail middle finger noticed blood shirt opposite hand wing plane before looked right hand prop made very clean deep cut tip first finger just under nail exposed deeper tissue finger middle finger prop smashed through nail cut deep tissue under nail hospital three stitches required close cut first finger nothing could done deep cut under nail middle finger except splint isnt major accident stretch mind John could have Im commercial artist loss finger loss nerve response could have very devastating family main reason elected reprint letter concerns statement last sentence above us stop think effect livelihood loss finger might have Any job requiring finger dexterity could jeopardized accident such involves 60 size engine instead mere 15 cu correspondent also stated time accident flying alone makes us shudder think what might have outcome engine ex-chainsaw powerplant wind up months safety column letter Larry Miles Mission KS has some worthwhile tips use chicken sticks engine starting have seen modelers using chicken sticks made rather hard material such aluminum rods hard fiberglass dowels etc engine backfires hits stick modeler does clear arc prop rapidly enoughWhack course thats idea device prop hits stick rather fingers potential safety hazard exists prop hits hard stick prop may crack internally visible later fail disastrous results think suggestion recommends chicken stick should also warn stick should covered softer material such several layers electrical friction duct tape perhaps leather Larry goes suggest alter native chicken stick leather glove finger thimble effective protective device agree Larry concludes letter saying following term chicken stick feel should discarded favor something such starter stick smart stick smart starter stick etc As presently named use term chicken stick encourages people especially ignorant beginner avoid like plague After wants chicken So have Whether youre ig norant beginner macho pattern pylon flier Smart Sticks make sense Have safe month John Preston 7012 Elvira Ct Falls Church VA 22042 Musee de lAir/Berliner Continued page 68 museum looking world like fugitive Magnificent Men Flying Machines copy Farman derivative flown film though modem engine rear half building taken up airplanes World War much fought above France little Voisin April 1980 125 anna an CAP YOUR CLUB LOGO Great IC CIubsI Let Know 1 Club Low Minimum Reasonable Prices Good Service Inquire about Call Write CustomWi printed TEETOP DOG tool Kt8N 4730 SW 75th Ave 4dUN i FL 33155 S 13051 261 -7768 L-A5 bomber sits simulated airfield what looks like its pilot inside crew ready give its prop whirl entire building dates time Great War effect old flying field lot realistic modern building escalators fluorescent lights trim delicate little Nieuport-Delage XI Bebe floats above Voisin its single handoperated Lewis machine gun ready far away 1910 Nieuport 2N monoplane shows marked family resemblance its militant descendant Among really rare World War types 30 Packard-LePere us built US Army Air Service French design two-seater has 400-hp American-built Liberty V-8 original aircraft Musee de Air collection along deHavilland dh9 Henri Farman addition complete aircraft museum parts some unusually historic craft gondola La France dirigible GRUMMAN WIDGEON MR Gs PRODUCTS 1100 Michigan Box 161 Marvsville MI 48040 flew almost 100 years ago hangs girders basket free balloons used during siege Paris 1870 collection artifacts survived century storage moisture moving about four terrible years Nazi occupation Gliders too represented oldest perhaps oldest anywhere 1879 Riot Planeur hangs right above entrance Near reproduction 1895 Lilienthal real 1904 Chanute glider Also hanging rafters flimsy looking Bleriot monoplane much like first cross English Channel Except has Pegoud lettered way across undersurface wings sign floor level connected airplane long red ribbon identifies personal airplane Adolphe Pegoud used achieve first inverted flight 1913 also first parachute airplane though obviously great joys visiting museum really looks like museum poking around corners search unknown treasure Ultra modern establishments like National Air & Space Museum dont have dark corners fun exploring discovering lost isnt case Chalais-Meudon corners hideaways await adven turous course building full nooks crannies will keep some its secrets Among aircraft searched vain actual Bleriot dear old Louis B flew France England 1 909 innaugurate international aviation Try might couldnt find Another airplane flatly refused show itself little Pou-Maquis Flying Flea built operated French Underground forces during World War II right under noses Germans may have undergoing maintenance may have practicing hiding case ever come back building mainly full-size aircraft usual need show aviation can possibly fitted available space models employed eye-catching Robert Morane collection of37 1/50th-scale models mostly older French aircraft molded silver Depending visitors enthusiasm very old flying things trip through Chalais-Meudon can take anywhere hour entire day either way time eventually comes must say adieu distant past Down road past wind tunnel space research labs Out gate walk back suburban railway station seems different now quaint little French streets shops have become part something bigger familiar train ride back center Paris hardly time review sights crammed ornate old hunk architecture estate once modern transpor tation devices struggled air sailed wherever uncertain French winds blew brave aeronauts Once back busy city its time plan second part tourto Le Bourget modern half French national aeronautical collection part little simpler long dont panic faced really quite useful easy-to-use Metro subway system First north via Line # 13 station called St Denis/Porte de Paris bus Aeroport thats about Musee de lAir currently occupies four connected hangars east side what used busy airline field lot functional single hangar Chalais Meudon airplanes inside everything seems fit hangars has theme least period time its airplanes belong Starting northerly come recent airplanes post-World War II era common museums around USA well spend least amount time Theres Mystere IV jet fighter early 1950s first various Mirage delta-winged jets US has contributed F-86 Sabre F100 Super Sabre though seems little out place AT-6 Texan trainer enter exit directly under twin tail booms deHavilland Vampire second big linked-together hangars houses airplanes used French research development thus full prototypes pretty much unknown Since French aviation industry has earned post war reputation building almost prototypes production-line airplanes hangar special interest Theres Trident 9000 slim jet engines ends its squarish wings Nord 126 Model Aviation toJeIs INTRODUCING JAil MER OSt IncQUALITY RIC PRODUCTS FEATURES MACHINED BALSA PARTS FULL SIZE PLANS COMPLETE HARDWARE PAC AL LANDING GEAR CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS ASSY INSTRUCTIONS SPECIFICATIONS SPANSO AREA500 LENGTH35-3/4 WEIGHT3-1/2 4 lbs ENGINE40 RADIO4 Channel Retail Price OUR SKY JAMMER IS FAST AND STEADY AND MAKES FANTASTIC PATTERN DEALERS TRAINER THE EXPERTS WILL AGREE THIS ISA FUN AIRCRAFT AND CAN RACE WITH STANDARD THE BEST OF THEM IT HAS TRICYCLE OR TAIL DRAGGER OPTION DEDUCTION BOX 226 BISBEE AZ 85603Phone 602 432 2329 Ultimate Flying Boat SAFE FLYING IS NO ACCIDENT Griffon sleek nose big air intake its turbo/ramiet engine blending somewhat crudely fat aft fuselage barrel-shaped Leduc 010 flying ramjet its pilot lying tubular cockpit inside engine looking like whole lot fun fly Parked floor can walk right up prototype Mirage Ill-V VTOL delta used eight smallish vertically mounted lift engines fuselage doors above below streamline use quite sophisticated expensive experi mental aircraft nearby Payen 49 Delta very small single-seater built pioneer design powered ajet engine 300 lbs thrust moved close 300 mph Hanging low ceiling original Jodel D9 Bebe single-seat all-wood homebuilt launched post-war French amateurconstruction movement played major role rebuilding lightplane industry hangar three planes World War II some fairly familiar air museum goer like P-Si Mustang P-47 Thunderbolt Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX Spanishbuilt Messerschmitt 109 Interesting sure hardly worth trouble journey way Paris though theres Focke Wulf 190 hall dont lose faith better come center hangar pair very rare French avions de chasse pursuit planes sadly brief period French fighting back Morane Saulnier 406 other Dewoitine pronounced DEH-wuh TEEN 520 Both well built seemingly well designed though little short armament didnt get much chance show stuff against clouds Messerschmitts Now eyes have grown accustomed scene brain starts register presence some really unusual types First theres chubby little radial-engined biplane looks sort like old Laird Solution racer turns out nothing less Russian Polikarpov 1-153 captivity sporty pursuit known during Spanish Civil War Chaika seagull considered fastest military biplane see large scale service got France remains mystery theres no question about being now near Mustang Spitfire generally similar looking airplane Russian Yak-3 Western world sleek low-wing fighter powered v-i 2 engine presented French Government appreciation Normandy Groupe French pilots flew alongside Russians Eastern Front low altitude said equal Bf-109 Spitfire best has saved until last objects fourth hangar have much say about history aviation hardly anything needed tojustif trip modest entranceway flanked set airplanes era Coupe Deutsch Race all-out longdistance speed event deserves far attention U S has received left radial-engined Potez 53 won 1933 race flying 1200 miles better 200 mph just 300 hp looks like Marcoux-Bromberg racer Earl Ortman flew several Thompson Trophy Races late 1930s right once finish drooling over Potez two count em Two long sleek Caudron Racers first fixed landing gear wheel pants type C366 according sign below Caudron expert Harry Robinson insists isnt real 366 very good imitation built taxi post-war movie looks real However airplane next three bladed prop retracted landing gear has met nit-pickers won proving genuine Caudron C7 14R intended attempt World Speed Record War interfered grandson Michel Detroyats 1936 Thompson Trophy winner never got chance make history Among airplanes hangar did exactly what meant trio hefty businesslike long-distance record setters Theres Breguet XIX flown Costes LeBrix St Louis Natal Africa i927 Bernard 19i flown Assolant Lefevre Lotti Old Orchard ME Spain back i 929 Breguet Super Bidon Question Mark bore Costes Bellonte world distance record almost 5000 miles 1929 became first men fly Atlantic east west machine i 930 flew Le Bourget Curtiss Field New York two airplanes used great French exhibition pilot Jean Cas ale SPAD Herbemont52 i92 1-vintage aerobatic plane powered 120-hp Gnome-Rhone rotary engine Nieuport-Delage 29C 1 used set world altitude record 3 1000 feet 1919 neat parasol-winged Morane Saulnier i airplane Fronval won major aerobatic meet 1927 still looks flyable Another parasol Dewoitine 530 favorite plane famous French demonstration pilots Marcel Doret 1937 1955 other lesser known airplanes mainly French origin scattered throughout two public sites Musee de lAir its storage restoration facilities what view constitutes quite possibly finest collec tion historic aircraft seen anywhere world Sure isnt anything compare Smithsonians Milestones Flight hall its Wright Flyer Spirit St Louis X- 1 15 manned spacecraft other aircraft museum just examples interesting types rather actual historic aircraft French Air Museum what see what did great things eons ago led eventually todays exotic-yet-useful airplanes like spectacular Concorde SST oh yes prototype Concorde 001 display just outside Musees hangars Bourget Aeroport seems make point historic aircraft need have struts wires April 1980 127