BILL WINTERS FOREEIEI3 THE ARTi cle begin ning page 56 Adventures Modeling begins unique series supposed pro duct review thing magazines belong plug -the product cult sort felt running around naked going mob So eight months ago began talk Bob Harrah about deal products way made reader enjoyment paramount commercialism secondary Since Bob lives San Diego FO East Coast discussions dragged like preliminaries SALT II Wedecid ed take Fly approach after manner flying magazines report various aircraft like us Bob detests unvarnished plugs holds profound view energetic dustry gives us wondrous things play what really makes modeling world go round proposed scratch-build attrac tive kitsold well new equip aircraft interesting acces sories products use could add new dimensions enjoyment Wed play ear really clear way describe undertaking its title Whatever became involved chapter glow driver hex wrench fittings etche would tell about things little guysas well trade giants doing Probably should have begun column Bob Harrah himself biographical notes provided ex pected few paragraphs Bob added some intriguing comments meant copy So keeping free-wheel ing manner reports weve put him candid camera Bob man modelerand thinker Robert S Harrah Bob Hoosier birth came Santa Barbara CA 1929 4 neat old-time hobby/bicycle shop dirt floor Hazards Happy Hazard cant re call exact age nor first crate wouldve solid model hung around shop much pro bably felt sorry poor kid gave ably 1934 35 9 10 moved Ventura 1937 about 30 miles away Jr High high schools airplane clubs Scouts too rally joined ESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER Carl Wheeley Walt Schroder formerly publisher Model Airplane News has used space anoth er magazineone timelto talk about Model Aviation derogatory way talks highly uninformed manner about MA employee salaries wish making fig ure comes up payment articles use color See AMA News section pertinent facts imagines MA somehow unfair magazine say simply employ practices getting the money thats hardly unfairjust good business As example quick look June issue magazine shows simple change could have made would have insisted upon magazine stead would have saved some $650 Believe know MA uses same printer magazine same cost fac tors apply saving magazine could have gone paying editorial contributors upgrading magazine bit use few four-color picturesor simply saving money pockets owners Walts magazine Walt about printing some financial information about maga zine done MAso some real compari sons can made Model Aviations case cut cor ner canand savings passed readerin form pages color better articles Concerning payment contributors yes try pay fair rates dont think fair pay 1945-50 rates promptly current magazines including MA have payment policies equal Air Trails 50s Walt Schroder has model air plane magazine publishing business long enough know better history has re peatedly proved him inaccurate forecaster comes Model viation magazine following quotes June 1975 Model Airplane Newsat time de cision start Model Aviation its present form following bankruptcy American Aircraft Modeler Schroder after en tering commercial competition mag azines organization might branch out tests other schools much like foot ball teams etc today neat period aviation general air shgws races industry greats going wild guess flying about exciting thing around Ventura some great flying buddies excellent compe tition between us Indoor scale HLG free-flight rubber None us could afford engines big kits free flight world least gave us chance enter contests maybe win kit en gine butcher paper de signs could usually get local butcher give us few feet wrap ping paper draw would sell magazines newspapers Liberty Coun try Gentleman etc collect few pennies buy wood tissue first big win yielded new Huskey Jr engine some kits gift certificates added along line since considered ourselves purists still de signed own flew Point Magu now known Port Hueneme point near town Oxnard air port Standing shadows real world flying real high couple pilots let help cut canvas dope planes later worked part-time job took first flights pinnacle life times dreamed about vicariously lived silver screen During too short exciting period learned fly Continued page 8 other areas commercialismmake endorse radio systems make endorse kits ad infinitum Fact AMAs Model Aviation its present form has business full four years now spectre invading other fields has occurred nor horizon Yet some other US aero modeling magazines dabble fields outside producing magazines Remember saying about people live glass houses Schroder advantage AMA received AAM [American Air craft Modeler] connection approxi mate 25000 newsstand circulation incidentally reason AAM affiliation did help growth AMA during period affiliation cut off growth potential reduces Academy status nothing exists within itself Fact AAMs large circu lation did fact aid AMAs growth just much importance arrangement provided substantial benefit AMA membersone best magazines field cost much less other Continued page 103 6 Model Aviation Letters Editor Openers Ariel Sport Polar Glide Measurements RC Technique RC Soaring RC Scale RC Helicopters RC Pylon Racing RC Sport/Aerobatics Adjust AMA Free Flight FF Old-Timers FF Duration FF Scale Pluto CL Scale CL Aerobatics CL Combat CL Racing Farman Sport Gossamer Albatross Product Review Cessna 192829 AW Adventures Modeling Chopper Fly-In Invader Mk IV AMA News Presidents Report District Reports Competition News Clip along dotted line make copy facsimile mail Model Aviation Survey 815 15th St NW Washington DC 20005 Comment and/or name etc 8 Model Aviation made first semi-solo flight pilot open biplane did impossible dream come true moved back Santa Barbara 1942 depression about over war economy found some good flying buddies lasted through high school 1943 war going full bloom did everything could prepare aviation after aeronautical engineer passed tests become pilot failed physical bad ears So Ijoined Navy Having assured would Aviation Machinists Mate teaching women take aircraft en gines apart during senior year high schooL ended up Navy Medical Corps Because second love photography spent part war ing medical photography overseas towards end war met late Gene Smith Life magazine same time met great writing team Carl Shelley Mydans Time magazine death marches spent hours hours Gene offici ally unofficially time changes course lives war ended 1946 boy came home Aviation overcrowded GI bill went through photographic school Brooks kept touch Gene sent him some pix eval uation master really tore apart offered job assistant meant carrying bags working darkroom everything clicking shutter soon Gene sharing shooting time doing some stories own other magazines lasted two exciting years now 1949 married trying make go West Coast photo journalism Some editors kept busy signment Life minor plane crash second along deep felt responsibility marriage children decided find something suitable switched around couple years night school up four nights week first son arrived second way Living Los Angeles fine opportunities again coming way decided La Jolla place bring up children went business brother-in-law 1955 business has kept very busy invented produced some new items aerospace industryoff shoots showed promise acoustical field Navy cases de velopment products produci bility stage main task cluded some exciting trips sub marines airplanes etc Some products being used latest sub marines protecting personnel last couple years have spent doing study helmets ear muffs potential product-induced injury prob lems Model publications using drawings old-timers original designs scale pro jects manuscripts how-to-do-it kits kit reviews editorial responsibilities clude RC Modeler American Aircraft Modeler Jr Modeler R/C Sportsman Sport Modeler Editors Note point Bob goes candid camera feel Adventures should con sider two points though edu cation limited formal stand point field lesson someplace perhaps outside can see better Certainly de pression war made right fully bitter unable cope big government taking over free en terprise system life previously known USA little doubt mind Manhattan Project Man-in-Space other great achievements would have come about did government look world electronics general mostly little guy becoming big world plastics thousands glues man made fibers clothes etc stop realize around prior World War II awesome fact education best very limited future requires Julie Bob Harrah patience continue learn case ability luck hard work herited through genes perhaps Godgiven cannot answer deeply feel such things model airplanes learning use hands mind beyond just feeding face making buck has contributed greatly Ob jectively creating airplane man against odds composing photo graph painting picture inventing new materialdeveloping new product know no other hobby field endeavor can challenge satisfy educate teach patience neces sary achievement better crazy aeromodeing field especially young potentials would cover 10 pages know Sports like golf tennis offered some challenge ocean sailboat racing became favorite pastimes some reason always seemed aero-type book photo subject take up some time am sure must have big bore minds cant get excited over books bestseller lists dime novels waste movies some thing would sit through think about something else Reading technical briefs new product methods became mandated work deep volvement inventions projects usually government tasks successful no pay 24-hour-aday burden responsibility camera darkroom could sometimes distract mind aeromodeling its endless challenge best reme dy could lax brain set hands beyond abilities harmless form drugs can clear brain new challenges Therefore portrayal aeromodeling world endless challenging adventure satisfies needs can itself also useful second point scratched surface little phone Industry products price 1937 Brown Jr cost $2150 Ohlsson $1850 Tiush Super Ace sold $2150 Bunch low $1 135 set M&M wheels $350 3 Japanese tissue came 32 colors Model Airplane News sold 20c cant get good tissue magazines up 10 times average wheels about same Engines have started move outof-sight overall industry com pared homes food cars etc has given aeromodeler best buys high quality products year year out haircut 25c new cars $800 wages 30c hour less dollar per day military no matter comparison comes aeromodeling industry has supported modeler NAA SOc Junior mem berships kids 1937 five hours working someones yard lucky knew pros perous person $100 full eight-hour day todays wages young mod eler could pay Senior Full Mem bership come out ahead what paid Junior order NAA survive become AMA would have probably failed dustry schools organizations such Air Scouts same year 1937 NAA president Dupont offered $300 prizes contests Comet Models paying advertiser Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute advertising students recent years unreli able radios 60s could cost much $1000 much less early 70s now available equal better about $100 preprogramming radio year about $600 almost impossible buy bad radio today bad engine crate wont fly True plas tic coverings quite up 32 colors choose some people will complain about anything Through span 40 years aeromodeling has good others country Since days NAA now AMA hundreds manufacturers have come gone supporting aero world guess have heard read about type gripe hundred gripes am lucky have heard solution alternative modeler reaping benefits Critiques important add negativeness worthless destroys creative accomplish ments always better crate flight way ee Continued page 103 August 1979 9 making pen mightier sword tive inventive new same history modeling recognized its worth lack appreciation what industry AMA doing aeromodeling reminds leaders fail thing learn history learn history really modelers fault considers coun try does really recognize crea tive talents men/women like other countries now lacking educational system seems measure culture talent life mater ial possessions brains ability Sure has always least some culture has survived cant really blame negativities can still try positive add called Adven tures Modeling DEAR WALT SCHRODER would like thank five-figure raise gave several associates Publishers Message June issue MB Walt old buddyand will always thatyou will recall telephone call after appraisal MAs finances prediction disaster AMA 1975 said wrong fallen face youd never learn will recall reminder call late 1978 just before last magazine flap departure MAN New York balmier climes nice see youve moved beyond previous published nonsense MAN claiming MA dragging down AMA now zero new area confusion youve stumbled yet again over inter preting AMA finances MANsince first yearhas no quarrel MA AMA yet Model Builder renew onslaught widely distributed MAN Position Paper long before Model Aviation flap took issue solely AMA-and MAN mag azine did support Nationals years sponsored no Nats tro phies MAN Nats trophy sponsor year 13 years have fired feud AMA May offer some professional advice competition MA Walt title says RC Model Builder competition RC Modeler Model Airplane News problem quite simply approach sales word sales circulation distribution duplicate full-rate advertising MA disappeared face earth problems would remain youd gain cent demise MAN sit ting last Council meeting stated have little concern about MAand MAN prospered MA reality no threat now going compete MAN especially RCMand Dewey highly successful publisher editor since 1950syoud well advised abandon now 1 3year-old vendetta AMAand con centrate great task before Lots luck Publishers Message continued page 6 comparable magazine could obtained Model viation largely has filled gap since demise AAM say largely understatement Did AMA growth dry up forecast No 1974 last full year AAM arrangement 52000 AMA members num ber has risen steadily until all-time high 1978 72000for four-year gain about 38% Schroder I wish would show can done [to publish 80-page magazine addition per son AMA staff] MAN requires full-time services seven persons Fact No matter speculation done Bill Winter extra person hired beginning already AMA publi cations staff Carl Wheeley become publisher Heather Huntington become art director Various others already AMA staff proAugust 1979 103 Openers/Winter continued page 9
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/08
Page Numbers: 6, 8, 9, 103
BILL WINTERS FOREEIEI3 THE ARTi cle begin ning page 56 Adventures Modeling begins unique series supposed pro duct review thing magazines belong plug -the product cult sort felt running around naked going mob So eight months ago began talk Bob Harrah about deal products way made reader enjoyment paramount commercialism secondary Since Bob lives San Diego FO East Coast discussions dragged like preliminaries SALT II Wedecid ed take Fly approach after manner flying magazines report various aircraft like us Bob detests unvarnished plugs holds profound view energetic dustry gives us wondrous things play what really makes modeling world go round proposed scratch-build attrac tive kitsold well new equip aircraft interesting acces sories products use could add new dimensions enjoyment Wed play ear really clear way describe undertaking its title Whatever became involved chapter glow driver hex wrench fittings etche would tell about things little guysas well trade giants doing Probably should have begun column Bob Harrah himself biographical notes provided ex pected few paragraphs Bob added some intriguing comments meant copy So keeping free-wheel ing manner reports weve put him candid camera Bob man modelerand thinker Robert S Harrah Bob Hoosier birth came Santa Barbara CA 1929 4 neat old-time hobby/bicycle shop dirt floor Hazards Happy Hazard cant re call exact age nor first crate wouldve solid model hung around shop much pro bably felt sorry poor kid gave ably 1934 35 9 10 moved Ventura 1937 about 30 miles away Jr High high schools airplane clubs Scouts too rally joined ESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER Carl Wheeley Walt Schroder formerly publisher Model Airplane News has used space anoth er magazineone timelto talk about Model Aviation derogatory way talks highly uninformed manner about MA employee salaries wish making fig ure comes up payment articles use color See AMA News section pertinent facts imagines MA somehow unfair magazine say simply employ practices getting the money thats hardly unfairjust good business As example quick look June issue magazine shows simple change could have made would have insisted upon magazine stead would have saved some $650 Believe know MA uses same printer magazine same cost fac tors apply saving magazine could have gone paying editorial contributors upgrading magazine bit use few four-color picturesor simply saving money pockets owners Walts magazine Walt about printing some financial information about maga zine done MAso some real compari sons can made Model Aviations case cut cor ner canand savings passed readerin form pages color better articles Concerning payment contributors yes try pay fair rates dont think fair pay 1945-50 rates promptly current magazines including MA have payment policies equal Air Trails 50s Walt Schroder has model air plane magazine publishing business long enough know better history has re peatedly proved him inaccurate forecaster comes Model viation magazine following quotes June 1975 Model Airplane Newsat time de cision start Model Aviation its present form following bankruptcy American Aircraft Modeler Schroder after en tering commercial competition mag azines organization might branch out tests other schools much like foot ball teams etc today neat period aviation general air shgws races industry greats going wild guess flying about exciting thing around Ventura some great flying buddies excellent compe tition between us Indoor scale HLG free-flight rubber None us could afford engines big kits free flight world least gave us chance enter contests maybe win kit en gine butcher paper de signs could usually get local butcher give us few feet wrap ping paper draw would sell magazines newspapers Liberty Coun try Gentleman etc collect few pennies buy wood tissue first big win yielded new Huskey Jr engine some kits gift certificates added along line since considered ourselves purists still de signed own flew Point Magu now known Port Hueneme point near town Oxnard air port Standing shadows real world flying real high couple pilots let help cut canvas dope planes later worked part-time job took first flights pinnacle life times dreamed about vicariously lived silver screen During too short exciting period learned fly Continued page 8 other areas commercialismmake endorse radio systems make endorse kits ad infinitum Fact AMAs Model Aviation its present form has business full four years now spectre invading other fields has occurred nor horizon Yet some other US aero modeling magazines dabble fields outside producing magazines Remember saying about people live glass houses Schroder advantage AMA received AAM [American Air craft Modeler] connection approxi mate 25000 newsstand circulation incidentally reason AAM affiliation did help growth AMA during period affiliation cut off growth potential reduces Academy status nothing exists within itself Fact AAMs large circu lation did fact aid AMAs growth just much importance arrangement provided substantial benefit AMA membersone best magazines field cost much less other Continued page 103 6 Model Aviation Letters Editor Openers Ariel Sport Polar Glide Measurements RC Technique RC Soaring RC Scale RC Helicopters RC Pylon Racing RC Sport/Aerobatics Adjust AMA Free Flight FF Old-Timers FF Duration FF Scale Pluto CL Scale CL Aerobatics CL Combat CL Racing Farman Sport Gossamer Albatross Product Review Cessna 192829 AW Adventures Modeling Chopper Fly-In Invader Mk IV AMA News Presidents Report District Reports Competition News Clip along dotted line make copy facsimile mail Model Aviation Survey 815 15th St NW Washington DC 20005 Comment and/or name etc 8 Model Aviation made first semi-solo flight pilot open biplane did impossible dream come true moved back Santa Barbara 1942 depression about over war economy found some good flying buddies lasted through high school 1943 war going full bloom did everything could prepare aviation after aeronautical engineer passed tests become pilot failed physical bad ears So Ijoined Navy Having assured would Aviation Machinists Mate teaching women take aircraft en gines apart during senior year high schooL ended up Navy Medical Corps Because second love photography spent part war ing medical photography overseas towards end war met late Gene Smith Life magazine same time met great writing team Carl Shelley Mydans Time magazine death marches spent hours hours Gene offici ally unofficially time changes course lives war ended 1946 boy came home Aviation overcrowded GI bill went through photographic school Brooks kept touch Gene sent him some pix eval uation master really tore apart offered job assistant meant carrying bags working darkroom everything clicking shutter soon Gene sharing shooting time doing some stories own other magazines lasted two exciting years now 1949 married trying make go West Coast photo journalism Some editors kept busy signment Life minor plane crash second along deep felt responsibility marriage children decided find something suitable switched around couple years night school up four nights week first son arrived second way Living Los Angeles fine opportunities again coming way decided La Jolla place bring up children went business brother-in-law 1955 business has kept very busy invented produced some new items aerospace industryoff shoots showed promise acoustical field Navy cases de velopment products produci bility stage main task cluded some exciting trips sub marines airplanes etc Some products being used latest sub marines protecting personnel last couple years have spent doing study helmets ear muffs potential product-induced injury prob lems Model publications using drawings old-timers original designs scale pro jects manuscripts how-to-do-it kits kit reviews editorial responsibilities clude RC Modeler American Aircraft Modeler Jr Modeler R/C Sportsman Sport Modeler Editors Note point Bob goes candid camera feel Adventures should con sider two points though edu cation limited formal stand point field lesson someplace perhaps outside can see better Certainly de pression war made right fully bitter unable cope big government taking over free en terprise system life previously known USA little doubt mind Manhattan Project Man-in-Space other great achievements would have come about did government look world electronics general mostly little guy becoming big world plastics thousands glues man made fibers clothes etc stop realize around prior World War II awesome fact education best very limited future requires Julie Bob Harrah patience continue learn case ability luck hard work herited through genes perhaps Godgiven cannot answer deeply feel such things model airplanes learning use hands mind beyond just feeding face making buck has contributed greatly Ob jectively creating airplane man against odds composing photo graph painting picture inventing new materialdeveloping new product know no other hobby field endeavor can challenge satisfy educate teach patience neces sary achievement better crazy aeromodeing field especially young potentials would cover 10 pages know Sports like golf tennis offered some challenge ocean sailboat racing became favorite pastimes some reason always seemed aero-type book photo subject take up some time am sure must have big bore minds cant get excited over books bestseller lists dime novels waste movies some thing would sit through think about something else Reading technical briefs new product methods became mandated work deep volvement inventions projects usually government tasks successful no pay 24-hour-aday burden responsibility camera darkroom could sometimes distract mind aeromodeling its endless challenge best reme dy could lax brain set hands beyond abilities harmless form drugs can clear brain new challenges Therefore portrayal aeromodeling world endless challenging adventure satisfies needs can itself also useful second point scratched surface little phone Industry products price 1937 Brown Jr cost $2150 Ohlsson $1850 Tiush Super Ace sold $2150 Bunch low $1 135 set M&M wheels $350 3 Japanese tissue came 32 colors Model Airplane News sold 20c cant get good tissue magazines up 10 times average wheels about same Engines have started move outof-sight overall industry com pared homes food cars etc has given aeromodeler best buys high quality products year year out haircut 25c new cars $800 wages 30c hour less dollar per day military no matter comparison comes aeromodeling industry has supported modeler NAA SOc Junior mem berships kids 1937 five hours working someones yard lucky knew pros perous person $100 full eight-hour day todays wages young mod eler could pay Senior Full Mem bership come out ahead what paid Junior order NAA survive become AMA would have probably failed dustry schools organizations such Air Scouts same year 1937 NAA president Dupont offered $300 prizes contests Comet Models paying advertiser Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute advertising students recent years unreli able radios 60s could cost much $1000 much less early 70s now available equal better about $100 preprogramming radio year about $600 almost impossible buy bad radio today bad engine crate wont fly True plas tic coverings quite up 32 colors choose some people will complain about anything Through span 40 years aeromodeling has good others country Since days NAA now AMA hundreds manufacturers have come gone supporting aero world guess have heard read about type gripe hundred gripes am lucky have heard solution alternative modeler reaping benefits Critiques important add negativeness worthless destroys creative accomplish ments always better crate flight way ee Continued page 103 August 1979 9 making pen mightier sword tive inventive new same history modeling recognized its worth lack appreciation what industry AMA doing aeromodeling reminds leaders fail thing learn history learn history really modelers fault considers coun try does really recognize crea tive talents men/women like other countries now lacking educational system seems measure culture talent life mater ial possessions brains ability Sure has always least some culture has survived cant really blame negativities can still try positive add called Adven tures Modeling DEAR WALT SCHRODER would like thank five-figure raise gave several associates Publishers Message June issue MB Walt old buddyand will always thatyou will recall telephone call after appraisal MAs finances prediction disaster AMA 1975 said wrong fallen face youd never learn will recall reminder call late 1978 just before last magazine flap departure MAN New York balmier climes nice see youve moved beyond previous published nonsense MAN claiming MA dragging down AMA now zero new area confusion youve stumbled yet again over inter preting AMA finances MANsince first yearhas no quarrel MA AMA yet Model Builder renew onslaught widely distributed MAN Position Paper long before Model Aviation flap took issue solely AMA-and MAN mag azine did support Nationals years sponsored no Nats tro phies MAN Nats trophy sponsor year 13 years have fired feud AMA May offer some professional advice competition MA Walt title says RC Model Builder competition RC Modeler Model Airplane News problem quite simply approach sales word sales circulation distribution duplicate full-rate advertising MA disappeared face earth problems would remain youd gain cent demise MAN sit ting last Council meeting stated have little concern about MAand MAN prospered MA reality no threat now going compete MAN especially RCMand Dewey highly successful publisher editor since 1950syoud well advised abandon now 1 3year-old vendetta AMAand con centrate great task before Lots luck Publishers Message continued page 6 comparable magazine could obtained Model viation largely has filled gap since demise AAM say largely understatement Did AMA growth dry up forecast No 1974 last full year AAM arrangement 52000 AMA members num ber has risen steadily until all-time high 1978 72000for four-year gain about 38% Schroder I wish would show can done [to publish 80-page magazine addition per son AMA staff] MAN requires full-time services seven persons Fact No matter speculation done Bill Winter extra person hired beginning already AMA publi cations staff Carl Wheeley become publisher Heather Huntington become art director Various others already AMA staff proAugust 1979 103 Openers/Winter continued page 9
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/08
Page Numbers: 6, 8, 9, 103
BILL WINTERS FOREEIEI3 THE ARTi cle begin ning page 56 Adventures Modeling begins unique series supposed pro duct review thing magazines belong plug -the product cult sort felt running around naked going mob So eight months ago began talk Bob Harrah about deal products way made reader enjoyment paramount commercialism secondary Since Bob lives San Diego FO East Coast discussions dragged like preliminaries SALT II Wedecid ed take Fly approach after manner flying magazines report various aircraft like us Bob detests unvarnished plugs holds profound view energetic dustry gives us wondrous things play what really makes modeling world go round proposed scratch-build attrac tive kitsold well new equip aircraft interesting acces sories products use could add new dimensions enjoyment Wed play ear really clear way describe undertaking its title Whatever became involved chapter glow driver hex wrench fittings etche would tell about things little guysas well trade giants doing Probably should have begun column Bob Harrah himself biographical notes provided ex pected few paragraphs Bob added some intriguing comments meant copy So keeping free-wheel ing manner reports weve put him candid camera Bob man modelerand thinker Robert S Harrah Bob Hoosier birth came Santa Barbara CA 1929 4 neat old-time hobby/bicycle shop dirt floor Hazards Happy Hazard cant re call exact age nor first crate wouldve solid model hung around shop much pro bably felt sorry poor kid gave ably 1934 35 9 10 moved Ventura 1937 about 30 miles away Jr High high schools airplane clubs Scouts too rally joined ESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER Carl Wheeley Walt Schroder formerly publisher Model Airplane News has used space anoth er magazineone timelto talk about Model Aviation derogatory way talks highly uninformed manner about MA employee salaries wish making fig ure comes up payment articles use color See AMA News section pertinent facts imagines MA somehow unfair magazine say simply employ practices getting the money thats hardly unfairjust good business As example quick look June issue magazine shows simple change could have made would have insisted upon magazine stead would have saved some $650 Believe know MA uses same printer magazine same cost fac tors apply saving magazine could have gone paying editorial contributors upgrading magazine bit use few four-color picturesor simply saving money pockets owners Walts magazine Walt about printing some financial information about maga zine done MAso some real compari sons can made Model Aviations case cut cor ner canand savings passed readerin form pages color better articles Concerning payment contributors yes try pay fair rates dont think fair pay 1945-50 rates promptly current magazines including MA have payment policies equal Air Trails 50s Walt Schroder has model air plane magazine publishing business long enough know better history has re peatedly proved him inaccurate forecaster comes Model viation magazine following quotes June 1975 Model Airplane Newsat time de cision start Model Aviation its present form following bankruptcy American Aircraft Modeler Schroder after en tering commercial competition mag azines organization might branch out tests other schools much like foot ball teams etc today neat period aviation general air shgws races industry greats going wild guess flying about exciting thing around Ventura some great flying buddies excellent compe tition between us Indoor scale HLG free-flight rubber None us could afford engines big kits free flight world least gave us chance enter contests maybe win kit en gine butcher paper de signs could usually get local butcher give us few feet wrap ping paper draw would sell magazines newspapers Liberty Coun try Gentleman etc collect few pennies buy wood tissue first big win yielded new Huskey Jr engine some kits gift certificates added along line since considered ourselves purists still de signed own flew Point Magu now known Port Hueneme point near town Oxnard air port Standing shadows real world flying real high couple pilots let help cut canvas dope planes later worked part-time job took first flights pinnacle life times dreamed about vicariously lived silver screen During too short exciting period learned fly Continued page 8 other areas commercialismmake endorse radio systems make endorse kits ad infinitum Fact AMAs Model Aviation its present form has business full four years now spectre invading other fields has occurred nor horizon Yet some other US aero modeling magazines dabble fields outside producing magazines Remember saying about people live glass houses Schroder advantage AMA received AAM [American Air craft Modeler] connection approxi mate 25000 newsstand circulation incidentally reason AAM affiliation did help growth AMA during period affiliation cut off growth potential reduces Academy status nothing exists within itself Fact AAMs large circu lation did fact aid AMAs growth just much importance arrangement provided substantial benefit AMA membersone best magazines field cost much less other Continued page 103 6 Model Aviation Letters Editor Openers Ariel Sport Polar Glide Measurements RC Technique RC Soaring RC Scale RC Helicopters RC Pylon Racing RC Sport/Aerobatics Adjust AMA Free Flight FF Old-Timers FF Duration FF Scale Pluto CL Scale CL Aerobatics CL Combat CL Racing Farman Sport Gossamer Albatross Product Review Cessna 192829 AW Adventures Modeling Chopper Fly-In Invader Mk IV AMA News Presidents Report District Reports Competition News Clip along dotted line make copy facsimile mail Model Aviation Survey 815 15th St NW Washington DC 20005 Comment and/or name etc 8 Model Aviation made first semi-solo flight pilot open biplane did impossible dream come true moved back Santa Barbara 1942 depression about over war economy found some good flying buddies lasted through high school 1943 war going full bloom did everything could prepare aviation after aeronautical engineer passed tests become pilot failed physical bad ears So Ijoined Navy Having assured would Aviation Machinists Mate teaching women take aircraft en gines apart during senior year high schooL ended up Navy Medical Corps Because second love photography spent part war ing medical photography overseas towards end war met late Gene Smith Life magazine same time met great writing team Carl Shelley Mydans Time magazine death marches spent hours hours Gene offici ally unofficially time changes course lives war ended 1946 boy came home Aviation overcrowded GI bill went through photographic school Brooks kept touch Gene sent him some pix eval uation master really tore apart offered job assistant meant carrying bags working darkroom everything clicking shutter soon Gene sharing shooting time doing some stories own other magazines lasted two exciting years now 1949 married trying make go West Coast photo journalism Some editors kept busy signment Life minor plane crash second along deep felt responsibility marriage children decided find something suitable switched around couple years night school up four nights week first son arrived second way Living Los Angeles fine opportunities again coming way decided La Jolla place bring up children went business brother-in-law 1955 business has kept very busy invented produced some new items aerospace industryoff shoots showed promise acoustical field Navy cases de velopment products produci bility stage main task cluded some exciting trips sub marines airplanes etc Some products being used latest sub marines protecting personnel last couple years have spent doing study helmets ear muffs potential product-induced injury prob lems Model publications using drawings old-timers original designs scale pro jects manuscripts how-to-do-it kits kit reviews editorial responsibilities clude RC Modeler American Aircraft Modeler Jr Modeler R/C Sportsman Sport Modeler Editors Note point Bob goes candid camera feel Adventures should con sider two points though edu cation limited formal stand point field lesson someplace perhaps outside can see better Certainly de pression war made right fully bitter unable cope big government taking over free en terprise system life previously known USA little doubt mind Manhattan Project Man-in-Space other great achievements would have come about did government look world electronics general mostly little guy becoming big world plastics thousands glues man made fibers clothes etc stop realize around prior World War II awesome fact education best very limited future requires Julie Bob Harrah patience continue learn case ability luck hard work herited through genes perhaps Godgiven cannot answer deeply feel such things model airplanes learning use hands mind beyond just feeding face making buck has contributed greatly Ob jectively creating airplane man against odds composing photo graph painting picture inventing new materialdeveloping new product know no other hobby field endeavor can challenge satisfy educate teach patience neces sary achievement better crazy aeromodeing field especially young potentials would cover 10 pages know Sports like golf tennis offered some challenge ocean sailboat racing became favorite pastimes some reason always seemed aero-type book photo subject take up some time am sure must have big bore minds cant get excited over books bestseller lists dime novels waste movies some thing would sit through think about something else Reading technical briefs new product methods became mandated work deep volvement inventions projects usually government tasks successful no pay 24-hour-aday burden responsibility camera darkroom could sometimes distract mind aeromodeling its endless challenge best reme dy could lax brain set hands beyond abilities harmless form drugs can clear brain new challenges Therefore portrayal aeromodeling world endless challenging adventure satisfies needs can itself also useful second point scratched surface little phone Industry products price 1937 Brown Jr cost $2150 Ohlsson $1850 Tiush Super Ace sold $2150 Bunch low $1 135 set M&M wheels $350 3 Japanese tissue came 32 colors Model Airplane News sold 20c cant get good tissue magazines up 10 times average wheels about same Engines have started move outof-sight overall industry com pared homes food cars etc has given aeromodeler best buys high quality products year year out haircut 25c new cars $800 wages 30c hour less dollar per day military no matter comparison comes aeromodeling industry has supported modeler NAA SOc Junior mem berships kids 1937 five hours working someones yard lucky knew pros perous person $100 full eight-hour day todays wages young mod eler could pay Senior Full Mem bership come out ahead what paid Junior order NAA survive become AMA would have probably failed dustry schools organizations such Air Scouts same year 1937 NAA president Dupont offered $300 prizes contests Comet Models paying advertiser Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute advertising students recent years unreli able radios 60s could cost much $1000 much less early 70s now available equal better about $100 preprogramming radio year about $600 almost impossible buy bad radio today bad engine crate wont fly True plas tic coverings quite up 32 colors choose some people will complain about anything Through span 40 years aeromodeling has good others country Since days NAA now AMA hundreds manufacturers have come gone supporting aero world guess have heard read about type gripe hundred gripes am lucky have heard solution alternative modeler reaping benefits Critiques important add negativeness worthless destroys creative accomplish ments always better crate flight way ee Continued page 103 August 1979 9 making pen mightier sword tive inventive new same history modeling recognized its worth lack appreciation what industry AMA doing aeromodeling reminds leaders fail thing learn history learn history really modelers fault considers coun try does really recognize crea tive talents men/women like other countries now lacking educational system seems measure culture talent life mater ial possessions brains ability Sure has always least some culture has survived cant really blame negativities can still try positive add called Adven tures Modeling DEAR WALT SCHRODER would like thank five-figure raise gave several associates Publishers Message June issue MB Walt old buddyand will always thatyou will recall telephone call after appraisal MAs finances prediction disaster AMA 1975 said wrong fallen face youd never learn will recall reminder call late 1978 just before last magazine flap departure MAN New York balmier climes nice see youve moved beyond previous published nonsense MAN claiming MA dragging down AMA now zero new area confusion youve stumbled yet again over inter preting AMA finances MANsince first yearhas no quarrel MA AMA yet Model Builder renew onslaught widely distributed MAN Position Paper long before Model Aviation flap took issue solely AMA-and MAN mag azine did support Nationals years sponsored no Nats tro phies MAN Nats trophy sponsor year 13 years have fired feud AMA May offer some professional advice competition MA Walt title says RC Model Builder competition RC Modeler Model Airplane News problem quite simply approach sales word sales circulation distribution duplicate full-rate advertising MA disappeared face earth problems would remain youd gain cent demise MAN sit ting last Council meeting stated have little concern about MAand MAN prospered MA reality no threat now going compete MAN especially RCMand Dewey highly successful publisher editor since 1950syoud well advised abandon now 1 3year-old vendetta AMAand con centrate great task before Lots luck Publishers Message continued page 6 comparable magazine could obtained Model viation largely has filled gap since demise AAM say largely understatement Did AMA growth dry up forecast No 1974 last full year AAM arrangement 52000 AMA members num ber has risen steadily until all-time high 1978 72000for four-year gain about 38% Schroder I wish would show can done [to publish 80-page magazine addition per son AMA staff] MAN requires full-time services seven persons Fact No matter speculation done Bill Winter extra person hired beginning already AMA publi cations staff Carl Wheeley become publisher Heather Huntington become art director Various others already AMA staff proAugust 1979 103 Openers/Winter continued page 9
Edition: Model Aviation - 1979/08
Page Numbers: 6, 8, 9, 103
BILL WINTERS FOREEIEI3 THE ARTi cle begin ning page 56 Adventures Modeling begins unique series supposed pro duct review thing magazines belong plug -the product cult sort felt running around naked going mob So eight months ago began talk Bob Harrah about deal products way made reader enjoyment paramount commercialism secondary Since Bob lives San Diego FO East Coast discussions dragged like preliminaries SALT II Wedecid ed take Fly approach after manner flying magazines report various aircraft like us Bob detests unvarnished plugs holds profound view energetic dustry gives us wondrous things play what really makes modeling world go round proposed scratch-build attrac tive kitsold well new equip aircraft interesting acces sories products use could add new dimensions enjoyment Wed play ear really clear way describe undertaking its title Whatever became involved chapter glow driver hex wrench fittings etche would tell about things little guysas well trade giants doing Probably should have begun column Bob Harrah himself biographical notes provided ex pected few paragraphs Bob added some intriguing comments meant copy So keeping free-wheel ing manner reports weve put him candid camera Bob man modelerand thinker Robert S Harrah Bob Hoosier birth came Santa Barbara CA 1929 4 neat old-time hobby/bicycle shop dirt floor Hazards Happy Hazard cant re call exact age nor first crate wouldve solid model hung around shop much pro bably felt sorry poor kid gave ably 1934 35 9 10 moved Ventura 1937 about 30 miles away Jr High high schools airplane clubs Scouts too rally joined ESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER Carl Wheeley Walt Schroder formerly publisher Model Airplane News has used space anoth er magazineone timelto talk about Model Aviation derogatory way talks highly uninformed manner about MA employee salaries wish making fig ure comes up payment articles use color See AMA News section pertinent facts imagines MA somehow unfair magazine say simply employ practices getting the money thats hardly unfairjust good business As example quick look June issue magazine shows simple change could have made would have insisted upon magazine stead would have saved some $650 Believe know MA uses same printer magazine same cost fac tors apply saving magazine could have gone paying editorial contributors upgrading magazine bit use few four-color picturesor simply saving money pockets owners Walts magazine Walt about printing some financial information about maga zine done MAso some real compari sons can made Model Aviations case cut cor ner canand savings passed readerin form pages color better articles Concerning payment contributors yes try pay fair rates dont think fair pay 1945-50 rates promptly current magazines including MA have payment policies equal Air Trails 50s Walt Schroder has model air plane magazine publishing business long enough know better history has re peatedly proved him inaccurate forecaster comes Model viation magazine following quotes June 1975 Model Airplane Newsat time de cision start Model Aviation its present form following bankruptcy American Aircraft Modeler Schroder after en tering commercial competition mag azines organization might branch out tests other schools much like foot ball teams etc today neat period aviation general air shgws races industry greats going wild guess flying about exciting thing around Ventura some great flying buddies excellent compe tition between us Indoor scale HLG free-flight rubber None us could afford engines big kits free flight world least gave us chance enter contests maybe win kit en gine butcher paper de signs could usually get local butcher give us few feet wrap ping paper draw would sell magazines newspapers Liberty Coun try Gentleman etc collect few pennies buy wood tissue first big win yielded new Huskey Jr engine some kits gift certificates added along line since considered ourselves purists still de signed own flew Point Magu now known Port Hueneme point near town Oxnard air port Standing shadows real world flying real high couple pilots let help cut canvas dope planes later worked part-time job took first flights pinnacle life times dreamed about vicariously lived silver screen During too short exciting period learned fly Continued page 8 other areas commercialismmake endorse radio systems make endorse kits ad infinitum Fact AMAs Model Aviation its present form has business full four years now spectre invading other fields has occurred nor horizon Yet some other US aero modeling magazines dabble fields outside producing magazines Remember saying about people live glass houses Schroder advantage AMA received AAM [American Air craft Modeler] connection approxi mate 25000 newsstand circulation incidentally reason AAM affiliation did help growth AMA during period affiliation cut off growth potential reduces Academy status nothing exists within itself Fact AAMs large circu lation did fact aid AMAs growth just much importance arrangement provided substantial benefit AMA membersone best magazines field cost much less other Continued page 103 6 Model Aviation Letters Editor Openers Ariel Sport Polar Glide Measurements RC Technique RC Soaring RC Scale RC Helicopters RC Pylon Racing RC Sport/Aerobatics Adjust AMA Free Flight FF Old-Timers FF Duration FF Scale Pluto CL Scale CL Aerobatics CL Combat CL Racing Farman Sport Gossamer Albatross Product Review Cessna 192829 AW Adventures Modeling Chopper Fly-In Invader Mk IV AMA News Presidents Report District Reports Competition News Clip along dotted line make copy facsimile mail Model Aviation Survey 815 15th St NW Washington DC 20005 Comment and/or name etc 8 Model Aviation made first semi-solo flight pilot open biplane did impossible dream come true moved back Santa Barbara 1942 depression about over war economy found some good flying buddies lasted through high school 1943 war going full bloom did everything could prepare aviation after aeronautical engineer passed tests become pilot failed physical bad ears So Ijoined Navy Having assured would Aviation Machinists Mate teaching women take aircraft en gines apart during senior year high schooL ended up Navy Medical Corps Because second love photography spent part war ing medical photography overseas towards end war met late Gene Smith Life magazine same time met great writing team Carl Shelley Mydans Time magazine death marches spent hours hours Gene offici ally unofficially time changes course lives war ended 1946 boy came home Aviation overcrowded GI bill went through photographic school Brooks kept touch Gene sent him some pix eval uation master really tore apart offered job assistant meant carrying bags working darkroom everything clicking shutter soon Gene sharing shooting time doing some stories own other magazines lasted two exciting years now 1949 married trying make go West Coast photo journalism Some editors kept busy signment Life minor plane crash second along deep felt responsibility marriage children decided find something suitable switched around couple years night school up four nights week first son arrived second way Living Los Angeles fine opportunities again coming way decided La Jolla place bring up children went business brother-in-law 1955 business has kept very busy invented produced some new items aerospace industryoff shoots showed promise acoustical field Navy cases de velopment products produci bility stage main task cluded some exciting trips sub marines airplanes etc Some products being used latest sub marines protecting personnel last couple years have spent doing study helmets ear muffs potential product-induced injury prob lems Model publications using drawings old-timers original designs scale pro jects manuscripts how-to-do-it kits kit reviews editorial responsibilities clude RC Modeler American Aircraft Modeler Jr Modeler R/C Sportsman Sport Modeler Editors Note point Bob goes candid camera feel Adventures should con sider two points though edu cation limited formal stand point field lesson someplace perhaps outside can see better Certainly de pression war made right fully bitter unable cope big government taking over free en terprise system life previously known USA little doubt mind Manhattan Project Man-in-Space other great achievements would have come about did government look world electronics general mostly little guy becoming big world plastics thousands glues man made fibers clothes etc stop realize around prior World War II awesome fact education best very limited future requires Julie Bob Harrah patience continue learn case ability luck hard work herited through genes perhaps Godgiven cannot answer deeply feel such things model airplanes learning use hands mind beyond just feeding face making buck has contributed greatly Ob jectively creating airplane man against odds composing photo graph painting picture inventing new materialdeveloping new product know no other hobby field endeavor can challenge satisfy educate teach patience neces sary achievement better crazy aeromodeing field especially young potentials would cover 10 pages know Sports like golf tennis offered some challenge ocean sailboat racing became favorite pastimes some reason always seemed aero-type book photo subject take up some time am sure must have big bore minds cant get excited over books bestseller lists dime novels waste movies some thing would sit through think about something else Reading technical briefs new product methods became mandated work deep volvement inventions projects usually government tasks successful no pay 24-hour-aday burden responsibility camera darkroom could sometimes distract mind aeromodeling its endless challenge best reme dy could lax brain set hands beyond abilities harmless form drugs can clear brain new challenges Therefore portrayal aeromodeling world endless challenging adventure satisfies needs can itself also useful second point scratched surface little phone Industry products price 1937 Brown Jr cost $2150 Ohlsson $1850 Tiush Super Ace sold $2150 Bunch low $1 135 set M&M wheels $350 3 Japanese tissue came 32 colors Model Airplane News sold 20c cant get good tissue magazines up 10 times average wheels about same Engines have started move outof-sight overall industry com pared homes food cars etc has given aeromodeler best buys high quality products year year out haircut 25c new cars $800 wages 30c hour less dollar per day military no matter comparison comes aeromodeling industry has supported modeler NAA SOc Junior mem berships kids 1937 five hours working someones yard lucky knew pros perous person $100 full eight-hour day todays wages young mod eler could pay Senior Full Mem bership come out ahead what paid Junior order NAA survive become AMA would have probably failed dustry schools organizations such Air Scouts same year 1937 NAA president Dupont offered $300 prizes contests Comet Models paying advertiser Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute advertising students recent years unreli able radios 60s could cost much $1000 much less early 70s now available equal better about $100 preprogramming radio year about $600 almost impossible buy bad radio today bad engine crate wont fly True plas tic coverings quite up 32 colors choose some people will complain about anything Through span 40 years aeromodeling has good others country Since days NAA now AMA hundreds manufacturers have come gone supporting aero world guess have heard read about type gripe hundred gripes am lucky have heard solution alternative modeler reaping benefits Critiques important add negativeness worthless destroys creative accomplish ments always better crate flight way ee Continued page 103 August 1979 9 making pen mightier sword tive inventive new same history modeling recognized its worth lack appreciation what industry AMA doing aeromodeling reminds leaders fail thing learn history learn history really modelers fault considers coun try does really recognize crea tive talents men/women like other countries now lacking educational system seems measure culture talent life mater ial possessions brains ability Sure has always least some culture has survived cant really blame negativities can still try positive add called Adven tures Modeling DEAR WALT SCHRODER would like thank five-figure raise gave several associates Publishers Message June issue MB Walt old buddyand will always thatyou will recall telephone call after appraisal MAs finances prediction disaster AMA 1975 said wrong fallen face youd never learn will recall reminder call late 1978 just before last magazine flap departure MAN New York balmier climes nice see youve moved beyond previous published nonsense MAN claiming MA dragging down AMA now zero new area confusion youve stumbled yet again over inter preting AMA finances MANsince first yearhas no quarrel MA AMA yet Model Builder renew onslaught widely distributed MAN Position Paper long before Model Aviation flap took issue solely AMA-and MAN mag azine did support Nationals years sponsored no Nats tro phies MAN Nats trophy sponsor year 13 years have fired feud AMA May offer some professional advice competition MA Walt title says RC Model Builder competition RC Modeler Model Airplane News problem quite simply approach sales word sales circulation distribution duplicate full-rate advertising MA disappeared face earth problems would remain youd gain cent demise MAN sit ting last Council meeting stated have little concern about MAand MAN prospered MA reality no threat now going compete MAN especially RCMand Dewey highly successful publisher editor since 1950syoud well advised abandon now 1 3year-old vendetta AMAand con centrate great task before Lots luck Publishers Message continued page 6 comparable magazine could obtained Model viation largely has filled gap since demise AAM say largely understatement Did AMA growth dry up forecast No 1974 last full year AAM arrangement 52000 AMA members num ber has risen steadily until all-time high 1978 72000for four-year gain about 38% Schroder I wish would show can done [to publish 80-page magazine addition per son AMA staff] MAN requires full-time services seven persons Fact No matter speculation done Bill Winter extra person hired beginning already AMA publi cations staff Carl Wheeley become publisher Heather Huntington become art director Various others already AMA staff proAugust 1979 103 Openers/Winter continued page 9