IONE1LE3 seri ous dif ficult edi torial write unavoidable space editor wished always upbeat gal ling break rule insult has added injury As go press hear magazine consid ering publication letterwith pie chartthat sub ject what will read ac cording its editor because public right know know what Presumably know what letterwriter thinks thats matter opinion AMA has over 70000 members hold different opinions AMA supposed print case however bottom line letterwriter disagrees AMA spends its money would have AMA stop spending magazine provide other services stead also blames magazine having caused AMAs current dues crease Model Aviation guilty until proved innocent Thats bottom line quite different know Model Aviation has never received monies AMA General Funds has its own inde pendent budget has always black operates its own income also know Model Avia tion vital future growth Academy So push chips cen ter table cry Call goodwill chips lifetime editing magazines fathers grandfathers What honor rides pot Now what editorial really about about truth mainly about magazine bit about AMA membership money written because circulation scattergun critiques self-appointed expertsinformation cannot go unchallenged has membership cost crease murky confusion about magazine its supposed affects AMA finances through out land walks life dig ging heels against rising costs Since writer editor Model Avia tion permit us begin maga zine set scene under stood left its own devices AMA membership would come its individu al conclusions left its own devices assailed wellmeaning people pursue phantom devils Among people pre dicted almost four years ago magazine would bankrupt AMA now point increased cost membership proof extrasen sory perception What some people saying about magazine tantamount telling FO mother wore army boots OK lets suppose magazine witness stand prosecutor shows pie chart AMA dollars Model Aviation monster slice chart al shows second monster slice sal aries tiny slices activitiesupon great portion salaries really spent doesnt show wont argue chart over good man must have labored because question seems ask have stopped beating wife sense chart cannot dis missed However chart should have accompanied show income slice showing MAs income would have larger showing its expenditures FOs modest brain boggles upsidedown accounting money magazine prior 1979 year came people specifically dered paid subscriptions plan sales advertising sub scriptions hobby shop sales MA did exist money would have existed either 1979 since dues increase Open mem bers includes $8 magazine portion increase would exist magazine abolished does fund other causes nothing AMA never appropriated mem bership money magazine Since early 1975 until few weeks ago written what paid membership 100% what pro videsfor example insurance other services completely aside AMA general activities Model Aviation still independently ac counted item red cent has spent magazine 1975 76 77 78 General Funds MA began corner storeroom four years agoto thun der critics screamed sorts imagined disasters AMA selves magazines After four years fears has materialized editors aim achieve re lationship between MA AMA exists between National Geographic its Society Society number ing almost 10000000 members de pends its magazine membership growth Society built National Geographic Big memberships mean reduced individual costs increased benefitsand clout MA already pro ducing membership outside world though modest growing scale present say its continued evolution would occasion between 100000 200000 AMA members too distant future still less 30-years ago Air Trails audience So can done Does MA lose money Hell no spite ~expert predictions hasnt yet first lean years due part tight stewardship Pub lisher Carl Wheeley formerly SecretaryTreasurer AMAand member US Free Flight Team 53 54 Carl has long AMAs in-house ultra Conservativehe believes budgets living within look chart page 70 shows real situa tion FO could much-needed om budsman AMAif didnt al ready work really out sider hired help AMA administrative mainliner like fly wall look upon see within AMA worldly cynicism perceive no people horns Continued page 92 4 Model Aviation Openers/Winter continued page 4 cloaks clock-watchers see some hearts can saddened Like TVs Dangerfield dont get no respect see irony power center AMA Washington Un der by-laws membership elects district vice presidents also Council members Almost far away states caliber people testifies judgment members elected themthey capable As group meet four times year deal best abil ities matters before qualifications businessmen pri vate life impeccable dont defend perfect expected anyone human being perhaps feel no defense FO needed welcome Perhaps make mistakes cannot say Perhaps timing things always brilliant devious calculating po lit icalthey modelers serving volun tarily know believe what decide motivated what feel best Sometimes means Executive Director minority Council meeting happens right Council charge no governmental agency-type Secre tary Washington can Big Brother us what FO about say could receive pink slip simply Recent actions have taken place done some us may drop wayside awhile will go growing Council hear message members call out proceed caution lay out new programs added expenses things members think AMA should Most members above dues increase less cost next weeks fuel buy other magazine almost much AMA asks magazine insurance other benefits others among us ask Should go response few people have ad dressed editor let us keep cool Dues increases however necessary brew negative reactionsnobody willingly ac cepts higher prices cant let ex perts confuse us individual mem bers can make own assessments finally patient readers may say Fine youAMA pays salary answer simply should hope can well other ways like old warhorse FO likes sniff battlefield challenge improve magazine see firmly its way mem bership tool par excellance help AMA grow prosper right know way words used discussion parody Supreme Court deci sions meaning Should everyones cor respondence AMA headquarters plastered billboard present instance publications demand AMA print letter critique logically based upon imagined need shed light some secretive wrong doing AMA has asked account pa per clips sugar cubes etc broken down AMA use Model Aviation use true joke think Watergate Deep Throat Will Judge Jaworski appear doorway Enough already Speaking rights almost 50000 people wanted paid Model Aviation 1978 have Can two critics seriously think people great majority Open mem bers can denied what prefer troubled FO offers words late President Jack Kennedy great enemy truth very ten liedeliberate contrived dishonest mythpersistent persuasive unrealistic Too often hold fast cliches fore-bear ers subject facts prefabricat ed set interpretations enjoy comfort opinion discom fort thought Greatest Show/Howard continued page 13 tions booth several years draws lots interest spec tators AMA represented president Johnny Clemens Larry Bolich special events director Earl Witt secretary-treasurer AMA always very responsive type public exposure could go on about fun fellowship fliers enjoy show photos show much words can tell can see Flying Circus future make plans participate Enjoy hobby Pitcairn/Stott continued page 23 per wing span would have 66 inches An increase over 4 inches upper wing span would have made assembled model airplane too large placed back seat automobile scale model designer builder must decide detailed scale model should decision involves consideration available material time money shop equipment desired usage ability Now Sport Scale Stand-Off Scale gaining popular ity over true scale choice has broadened authors decisions largely compromise based desire fun fly moderately windy weather possibly enter contest requiring exact scale Although model deviates scale selection airfoil slightly larger engine scale plans show true outline except previously noted realistic appearance slightly over-size 2 inch ot Williams Wright Whirlwind J5 installed way largely conceal inverted 60 engine Further streamlining camouflaging engine accomplished fiber glass cowling provide much space around engine possible muffler permit installation battery pack under cowling desired help establish correct CG location resorting- excess dead weight balance common practice remove scalelike engines routine test flights necessary substitute equivalent weight prevent shift CG reason fiberglass cowl engine crankcase formed separate molded parts crankcase form made hard balsa previously used packing crating because its weight balsa cut discs laminated before shaping size During machining observed form tended turn out round lathe due end grain cutting same other grain directions Care taken bring form back round hand work Finally form fitted -in diameter wood-holding dowel centrally located extend axially out back dowel can supported easily vise applying fiber glass No attempt made provide draft taper form diameters since believed fiberglass crank case would have cut form anyway pleasant sur prise easy-does-it method completed fiberglass crankcase removed piece damage either crankcase form method removal follows I Remove thumb tacks held Saran Wrap glass cloth place being coated Hobbypoxy II during placement balloon cover lay-up 2 Trim fiberglass rear outer di ameter assure no fiberglass locks around back corner form rough out front open hole fiber glass cowl removing excess cut away extract thumb tacks operations easier fiber glass has cured two three hours has completely hardened 3 Insert artists flexible palette knife rear form under fiberglass Saran Wrap Japa nese artist paint mixing knife used 92 Model Aviation
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/02
Page Numbers: 4, 92
IONE1LE3 seri ous dif ficult edi torial write unavoidable space editor wished always upbeat gal ling break rule insult has added injury As go press hear magazine consid ering publication letterwith pie chartthat sub ject what will read ac cording its editor because public right know know what Presumably know what letterwriter thinks thats matter opinion AMA has over 70000 members hold different opinions AMA supposed print case however bottom line letterwriter disagrees AMA spends its money would have AMA stop spending magazine provide other services stead also blames magazine having caused AMAs current dues crease Model Aviation guilty until proved innocent Thats bottom line quite different know Model Aviation has never received monies AMA General Funds has its own inde pendent budget has always black operates its own income also know Model Avia tion vital future growth Academy So push chips cen ter table cry Call goodwill chips lifetime editing magazines fathers grandfathers What honor rides pot Now what editorial really about about truth mainly about magazine bit about AMA membership money written because circulation scattergun critiques self-appointed expertsinformation cannot go unchallenged has membership cost crease murky confusion about magazine its supposed affects AMA finances through out land walks life dig ging heels against rising costs Since writer editor Model Avia tion permit us begin maga zine set scene under stood left its own devices AMA membership would come its individu al conclusions left its own devices assailed wellmeaning people pursue phantom devils Among people pre dicted almost four years ago magazine would bankrupt AMA now point increased cost membership proof extrasen sory perception What some people saying about magazine tantamount telling FO mother wore army boots OK lets suppose magazine witness stand prosecutor shows pie chart AMA dollars Model Aviation monster slice chart al shows second monster slice sal aries tiny slices activitiesupon great portion salaries really spent doesnt show wont argue chart over good man must have labored because question seems ask have stopped beating wife sense chart cannot dis missed However chart should have accompanied show income slice showing MAs income would have larger showing its expenditures FOs modest brain boggles upsidedown accounting money magazine prior 1979 year came people specifically dered paid subscriptions plan sales advertising sub scriptions hobby shop sales MA did exist money would have existed either 1979 since dues increase Open mem bers includes $8 magazine portion increase would exist magazine abolished does fund other causes nothing AMA never appropriated mem bership money magazine Since early 1975 until few weeks ago written what paid membership 100% what pro videsfor example insurance other services completely aside AMA general activities Model Aviation still independently ac counted item red cent has spent magazine 1975 76 77 78 General Funds MA began corner storeroom four years agoto thun der critics screamed sorts imagined disasters AMA selves magazines After four years fears has materialized editors aim achieve re lationship between MA AMA exists between National Geographic its Society Society number ing almost 10000000 members de pends its magazine membership growth Society built National Geographic Big memberships mean reduced individual costs increased benefitsand clout MA already pro ducing membership outside world though modest growing scale present say its continued evolution would occasion between 100000 200000 AMA members too distant future still less 30-years ago Air Trails audience So can done Does MA lose money Hell no spite ~expert predictions hasnt yet first lean years due part tight stewardship Pub lisher Carl Wheeley formerly SecretaryTreasurer AMAand member US Free Flight Team 53 54 Carl has long AMAs in-house ultra Conservativehe believes budgets living within look chart page 70 shows real situa tion FO could much-needed om budsman AMAif didnt al ready work really out sider hired help AMA administrative mainliner like fly wall look upon see within AMA worldly cynicism perceive no people horns Continued page 92 4 Model Aviation Openers/Winter continued page 4 cloaks clock-watchers see some hearts can saddened Like TVs Dangerfield dont get no respect see irony power center AMA Washington Un der by-laws membership elects district vice presidents also Council members Almost far away states caliber people testifies judgment members elected themthey capable As group meet four times year deal best abil ities matters before qualifications businessmen pri vate life impeccable dont defend perfect expected anyone human being perhaps feel no defense FO needed welcome Perhaps make mistakes cannot say Perhaps timing things always brilliant devious calculating po lit icalthey modelers serving volun tarily know believe what decide motivated what feel best Sometimes means Executive Director minority Council meeting happens right Council charge no governmental agency-type Secre tary Washington can Big Brother us what FO about say could receive pink slip simply Recent actions have taken place done some us may drop wayside awhile will go growing Council hear message members call out proceed caution lay out new programs added expenses things members think AMA should Most members above dues increase less cost next weeks fuel buy other magazine almost much AMA asks magazine insurance other benefits others among us ask Should go response few people have ad dressed editor let us keep cool Dues increases however necessary brew negative reactionsnobody willingly ac cepts higher prices cant let ex perts confuse us individual mem bers can make own assessments finally patient readers may say Fine youAMA pays salary answer simply should hope can well other ways like old warhorse FO likes sniff battlefield challenge improve magazine see firmly its way mem bership tool par excellance help AMA grow prosper right know way words used discussion parody Supreme Court deci sions meaning Should everyones cor respondence AMA headquarters plastered billboard present instance publications demand AMA print letter critique logically based upon imagined need shed light some secretive wrong doing AMA has asked account pa per clips sugar cubes etc broken down AMA use Model Aviation use true joke think Watergate Deep Throat Will Judge Jaworski appear doorway Enough already Speaking rights almost 50000 people wanted paid Model Aviation 1978 have Can two critics seriously think people great majority Open mem bers can denied what prefer troubled FO offers words late President Jack Kennedy great enemy truth very ten liedeliberate contrived dishonest mythpersistent persuasive unrealistic Too often hold fast cliches fore-bear ers subject facts prefabricat ed set interpretations enjoy comfort opinion discom fort thought Greatest Show/Howard continued page 13 tions booth several years draws lots interest spec tators AMA represented president Johnny Clemens Larry Bolich special events director Earl Witt secretary-treasurer AMA always very responsive type public exposure could go on about fun fellowship fliers enjoy show photos show much words can tell can see Flying Circus future make plans participate Enjoy hobby Pitcairn/Stott continued page 23 per wing span would have 66 inches An increase over 4 inches upper wing span would have made assembled model airplane too large placed back seat automobile scale model designer builder must decide detailed scale model should decision involves consideration available material time money shop equipment desired usage ability Now Sport Scale Stand-Off Scale gaining popular ity over true scale choice has broadened authors decisions largely compromise based desire fun fly moderately windy weather possibly enter contest requiring exact scale Although model deviates scale selection airfoil slightly larger engine scale plans show true outline except previously noted realistic appearance slightly over-size 2 inch ot Williams Wright Whirlwind J5 installed way largely conceal inverted 60 engine Further streamlining camouflaging engine accomplished fiber glass cowling provide much space around engine possible muffler permit installation battery pack under cowling desired help establish correct CG location resorting- excess dead weight balance common practice remove scalelike engines routine test flights necessary substitute equivalent weight prevent shift CG reason fiberglass cowl engine crankcase formed separate molded parts crankcase form made hard balsa previously used packing crating because its weight balsa cut discs laminated before shaping size During machining observed form tended turn out round lathe due end grain cutting same other grain directions Care taken bring form back round hand work Finally form fitted -in diameter wood-holding dowel centrally located extend axially out back dowel can supported easily vise applying fiber glass No attempt made provide draft taper form diameters since believed fiberglass crank case would have cut form anyway pleasant sur prise easy-does-it method completed fiberglass crankcase removed piece damage either crankcase form method removal follows I Remove thumb tacks held Saran Wrap glass cloth place being coated Hobbypoxy II during placement balloon cover lay-up 2 Trim fiberglass rear outer di ameter assure no fiberglass locks around back corner form rough out front open hole fiber glass cowl removing excess cut away extract thumb tacks operations easier fiber glass has cured two three hours has completely hardened 3 Insert artists flexible palette knife rear form under fiberglass Saran Wrap Japa nese artist paint mixing knife used 92 Model Aviation