THERE ARE MANY opinions regarding Peanuts ferent pathways success tiny Scale models fly Suppose could gather 10 well-known Peanut eers together discussion sub ject Geographical separations make difficult did next-best thing submitting series frequentlyasked questions answers appear fashion round-table conversation few small deletions have made avoid repetition remove some unneeded expletives may noticed sense humor important facet some Peanuteers personalities panel Bob Clemens real life photog rapher Eastman Kodak Rochester NY Scale model columnist Na tional Free Flight Society Journal Dave Linstrum Florida landscape architect editor VTO Free Flight column Model Airplane News Clarence Mather science teacher San Diego CA all-around builder eve rything microfilm models through Wakefields Dr John Martin Dentist editor Miami FL newsletter Hangar Pilot Walt Mooney Aeronautical engineer General Dynamics San Diego CA renowned Professor Peanuts Bob Peck Proprietor Peck-Polymers model aircraft company San Diego CA Tom Stark Retired Air Force officer St. Louis MO Experienced Scale Peanuts RC Dave Stott Professional model builder Sikorsky co-instigator original Peanut Scale concept Bridgeport CT Robert Sand Thompson School teacher co-instigator Peanut Scale idea two co-inventors Peanut Scale concept left Dave Stott holding larger-than-Peanut B-25 rubber-powered model during Flying Aces Club meet Scale models other co-inventor Bob Thompson left right-hand picturecaught action FAC Nats Tom Nallen right works rare Miles canard Both pictures Bill Noonan 66 Model Aviation Len uave Linstrum popuiar eaitor 0 tne VTU column Model Airplane News all sorts FF models including Pennyplane holding Right Sandy Bob Peck Peck-Polymers Photo snapped Ken Hannan during Peanut Scale postal contest L Walt Mooney genial Professor Peanuts prepares launch Found Centennial R Bill Warner holds Waco Peanut Hannan pics Roxbury CT Harold Bill Warner Teacher MA columnist Santa Monica CA Bill Hannan Gentlemen us familiar contest exploits modeling achievements backgrounds did start build models Peck Chicago IL about 1940 age six Stark My starting age too about 1934 first grade Mooney At age nine North ern California saw old Stinson straight winger fly over right wanted become airplane designer Models start direction Martin Philadelphia PA started. quite early before grade school think five years old 1932 first model called Mos quito recall no landing gear next model 10-cent Megow kit SE5 dad helped Thompson About 1944 some Maircraft solid models eight nine years old time havent stopped since Stott 1934 home under tutelage two older brothers Mather Lemont IL about 1934 Clemens Naperville IL Must have eight nine just before World War II started Clarence Mather just graduated Naperville High School time did meet him until 1945 ever father very fine modeler seeing him meticulously assemble Zipper 1941 early inspi rations Linstrum 1941 Omaha NE influ enced Olie Olson Herb Kothe CO Wright built Frank Zaic design Book Knowledge right page Warner Ravenna OH 1934 start ing cardboard stuff Hannan OK gentlemen could spend lot time early experiences purpose talk about Peanut Scale modeling Lets get right down specifics Materials example people strip own balsa Stott Yep Stark Yes Martin Only consent Serious ly use metal straightedge plastic cutting sheet single-edge razor blade Mather Usually I have found Pecks strips just good better Peck Thanks plug Clarence usually use regular strips except building strictly Indoor models Linstrum When single /46 square costs 10 cents Florida yes use Jim Jones superb stripper Fairgate metal rule Plexiglas #11 blade Clemens Only rarely like need odd size wing spar Mostly use commercially-cut Ao /42 Warner Yes 90% time Thompson Yes Ive forced Good wood hard come strips expensive now just doesnt pay Mooney Sometimes Only want particularly lightweight strips Usually select existing cut strips Unfortu nately often end up three fuselage longerons alike just different enough cause problem Hannan store balsa wood Warner In refrigerator really Just few boxes like everyone else re fuse state valuable Im considering keeping safe deposit box Thompson I have vast pile sheets attic keep straight rubberbands around some hardwood sheets top bottom pile Mooney I have about five big old Kodak film boxes stacked horizontally couple open-ended boxes stand ing vertically ease picking out sizes Trouble course anything shorter full length stock can re trieved dumping out entire box total quantity hand varies seems Im supplier some neighbor hood kids addition own sons approach look through available stock sale time enter hobby shop find exceptional stuff buy August 1984 67 figuring eventually will come handy After 40-some years building guess Ill keep awhile tually use Linstrum Mine Sig other card board boxes large 4-in -dia draw ing storage tubes metal caps Martin The average humidity Flori da about 78o just let stuff lay around use aged stuff isnt warped Clemens Horizontally Most large sheets several shelves uncovered open box strips Prime strips sheets Indoor use boxes covers make effort keep large sheets flat possible Peck In racksbalsa lays flattry keep warping Stark No special way Stott Flat cabinet Mather In large boxthe im portant thing sheets lie flat keep warping Hanuan How about motives people have philosophy modeling Stott Do can Mather I like own thing Rarely build anothers planseven know tops like competition also enjoy sport flying Peck I feel person has own reason building models some form art others like competi tion find relaxing other reasons personally build models way trying out ideas Modeling teaches thingshow reason under stand creativity use hands work tools materials basic engineering physics chemistry can help everyday life Clemens have philosophy must attitude toward modeling re gard pleasant challenging stimu lating fun pastime enjoy compet ing also enjoy flying alone talking myself try de-bug new Scale ship wring few seconds old Building flying small rubberpowered models brings simpler Left Author/moderator Bill Hannan CO2powered Peanut Scale Niauport monoplane Plc Linstrum Right Clarence Mather Morane-Saulnier Peanut Warren Shipp photo basic pleasures personal creativity skill once assort ment sticks sheets tissue some pieces sheet balsa now flying model airplane thats neat also en joy knowing other modelers seeing never-ending variety creations Linstrum approach build pret ty airplanes take best advantage ex isting rules Go optimum extremes Martin philosophy spend lot time flying building Thompson Build what interests What looks like interesting airplane yet has chance being passable flier rarely pick plane because looks like might good flier Like right now Im building Fiat CR 32 Interest ing plane mid-Thirties fighters lot airplane build rarely end up good fliers too details have add Im artistic enough merely draw have build adds up too often airbrush models fog color retard fading looks nice too adds weight Stark Choose subjects methods always challenging try pick subjects unusual Contest work ultimate test requiring lots practice preparation Never compete untested model Mooney Have fun youre hav ing fun quit Take up something else until have fun Warner Build what youre interested regardless whether its com petitive Never force yourself build fly dont feel like day night spirit upon Never put work model willing see wiped out crash lost thermal Build models no else has ever heard can coup Hannan Very well what about Pea nut models particular sepa rate philosophy Peanuts Linstrum Eat plenty Stott Eat em fly em whatever like Martin No Peanut should take week build Documentation should minimal Make em competi tive Have lots fun lots flying Warner Dont build em superscale takes fun out flying em Fly bleep out wind rain hail whatever superscale model may win contest spends its life box want go ape build regu lar-size Scale job Thompson Build what like few years ago did build first Lacey swept before son Since better builders fliers have taken over Ive just shut out. stomped So Ill go back what like ivian Curtiss export Falcon some such Peck I feel Peanuts interesting challenge due small size very rewarding find can per68 Model Aviation Tom Stark few lIC Scale models lie also has active classes Free Flight Scale models indoor outdoor including Peanuts form well larger models Peanuts have advantages low cost small construction area required can flown small fields gyms feel important since few larger areas left model flying Clemens Like have said like edible kind cant keep enjoying wanting feel strongly Peanuts flying Scale models should reflect both aspects appearance flight per formance can build such model win meets fine loophole hunting win contests puts totally wrong perspective event Im specifically referring ghost models may capable considerable dura tion Scale models wildest delusions builders Mooney Id say think flying scale fidelity should have equal value. moderation things superscale certainly ghost ships either Stark For performance choose clean airplanes retract gear retracted position long fuselage desirable Single-engine World War II bombers Golden Age racers long-distance air craft make good subjects Hannan Do fellows have inside tricks hints Peanut builders Stolt Nope Thompson Nothing better model ers havent come up Dont watch meet watch Dave Stott Fred Hall Chet Bukowski Mooney How shall put secrets available asking. probably worth just what pay Warner 1 wont fly loop 2mm Pirelli its too heavy 2 Plasticize nitrate dope 3 Make own bal sa wheels 4 Use Peck-Polymers nylon thrust bearing 5 Fly left 6 Learn spot thermals 7 Watch Clarence Mather 8 Steal Hannans secrets 9 Throw Peanut least 30 ft high before prop starts puts few turns wind pressure Peck With enough patience can build fly size model Nothing impossible Mather No secrets Ive told everything regarding building trimming published articles Martin Im too tricky divulge secrets Did Houdini tell Blackstone Does Namath tell Bradshaw told few white lies October 1975 Model Air plane News article tipped hand few issues Hangar Pilot deepest darkest secrets will never known Stark Build light pre-shrink tissue Clemens From th first stick pin plan constant effort should made keep weight down Light weight Peanuts result cumulative ef fects light wood use no needed careful assembly ensure QI 0 Hungorilla Dave Stotts term pent-up energy fully-wound rubber motorwhich sometimes can explode inside fuselage distressing results structure Artist Bill Miller has done entire series cartoons about thisbeast FAC Newsletter proper alignment careful covering light tissue Litecoat dope course good prop rubber selection impor tant too Dont assume prop best Build some means changing props too much difficulty Hannan Speaking props guys go about selecting untest ed Peanut Clemens Being strictly trial-and-error builder/flier Id probably choose prop based experience similar past model. using prop worked well before like let prop help con tribute needed nose ballast often use plastic lighter models long er noses such BD-4 know Ill have make lighter prop probably sheet balsa /32 ply blades hardwood spar Warner Id stick Sleek-Streek prop Right Bob Clemens outstanding modeler/ photographer two Peanutsa Waterman Mercury racer left Farman Moustique right Photo Michele Hallen Below Dr John Martin sometimes-zany editor Hangar Pilot newsletter pro moter annual Peanut Grand Prix until recently staged West Baden IN year Detroit Ml June it wouldnt perform well Id try Kaysun wouldnt Id try Peck-Polymers time model would probably destroyed Sleek Streeks usually work dont like wood props Too much work get just right snap Guess Im just serious enough Linstrum No comment use trial error unforgivable Props 13-in diameter seem work well Martin See article Hangar Pilot Author Doc uses sheet-wood-blade type prop 1 Select high-pitch prop very stable model configura tion rules out low-wingers short fuselage small-tail-area types latter craft use low-pitch prop 2 have ROG requirement club limits diameter 7-in Continued page 160 August1984 69 Scale Realism R/ C Aircraft Lightweight flexible super detailed pilot figures FF DurationlMeuser Continued page 157 1cm CG center gravity shift motor unwinds longer fuselage further motor peg CG greater chance stall under power stall glide portion flight shorten motor length either moving motor peg ward actually chopping off hank rubber youve defeated purpose having long fuselage first place George Perryman obviously faced same cascading sets problems designed gigantic Great Speckled Bird NFFS Dick Korda Open Rubber event Georges solution go gearing sytem no great shakes except George gave little unique Perryinan twist gear mechanism rear planenot front Does mean plane reverse gear George As photos show two mo tor hooks facing forward gearing mechanism immediately behind what appears ply plate metal bush ings small circular hole apparently stop-rod keep everything unraveling winding relieve undue pressure gears themselves double noseblock allows winding both motors front plane motor run snakey stuff unbelievably long cant rind notes exact length George no problem whatsoever unwound motors upsetting CG Very ingeniouswhich what have come expect George Perryman Radio Controlled Free Flight knew would get attention Actually has nothing radio controlled CIVILIAN BUSTS NOW AVAILABLE 1/3 1/4 1/5 S2OO shipping bust AT YOUR HOBBY SHOP Free Flight What does have Gil Morris Toothpicks designer use small radio transmitter mounted streamlined pod atop wing plane Gils mouse calls emits electronic beeps help him locate retrieve plane midst jungle-like growth sometimes have fly Gil reports good success device Im sure hed happy supply details about exact components sent SASE self-addressed stamped envelope Gilbert Morris 2810 Brackey Rd Columbus OH 43220 Nickels roll cause theyre round niftiest hints Ive encountered comes Jerry Skrjanc Mi cro-X man Ive always trouble mak ing small wheels sheet balsa lamina tions same just never seems can get finish up round Regard less carefully cut out some lose sanding process wheel takes its own whopperjawed characteristics late game next time youre faced wheel-making task sandwich wheel blank between two coins appropri ate size sand right down metal Neat huh pinch coins tightly enough easy task Free Flight ers theres just no way can wrong Speaking wheels its time wheel out let Bob Meuser return accustomed revered place next month hope Ill get meet along contest trail season Free Flight forever address Larry Kruse Box 1137 Liberal KS 67901 Photos drawings correspondence dealing Free Flight sub jects should continue sent 1 regular Contributing Editor Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oakland CA 94619 Peanut ParsylHannan Continued page 69 prop great duration sure looks like bleep Mather The plastic props available about good anyone can make Wil liams Brothers props cut down neces sary excellent Stark Start plastic prop get airplane trimmed Measure thrust prop rubber size works make wooden props per form better plastic Peck Past experience guide choose large diameter will clear ROG usually cutting down longer prop blade area general like use plastic props necessary will carve wooden prop obtain pitch area desire competition light model prefer high-pitch prop larger area blade Stott First try like worked similar model Thompson Carve 5-in block prop see what get can cut shaped twisted fiddled ways can nearly always get satisfactory prop out Hnnnnn Changing subject bit people regarded innovators What ideas feel may have con tributed Peanut modeling Martin The art winning very lit tle talent concept stand-off Pea nut Scale judges 50 feet away model Coined mottos Peanuts ever sic semper Peanutus Indoor everyone non semper indoorus Mather I cant think Stark I may have started trend toward fat-fuselage models Cou gar 1963 64 Stott Took HUNGoriIla out jungle made him what today Peck believe have made easier average person build Peanut Scale modelsby offering kits have parts understandable plans construction Also designed produced precision nylon thrust bearings used great modelers Thompson Very little Peanut Scale has caught due effortsbut rather due Dave Stott other modelers have made things go Perhaps have reintroduced feeling having fun some messing about rule book propos ailing cross-proposalling having fun Just because tend slap-dash slap-happy about things hardly makes right contest record abysmal shows poverty approach enjoy myself way what models get away pres sures might cause rather re sent see increasing Continued page 162 160 Model Aviation KNIGHTS AIR PILOT BUSTS AND FULL FIGURES Perfect oldest newest next creation give plane pilot FULL FIGURES 115 CIVILIANS1Z95 1/4 CIVILIANS1495 1/3 CIVILIAN81995 NEW RELEASES 1/5 WWII US NAVY 395 1/6 WWII US AAF 195 CIVILIAN8895 specify airplane helicopter S25S shipping figwe ORDER YOURS TODAY Wiliism M Hawke 7148 Iasting Light Way Columbia MD 21045 301 730-5596 NEW RELEASE 1/5 WWII us NAVY Kraft RIC Electronics PERSONAL SERVICE BY —-pMILT ERB SPECIAL LOW PRICESService charge repair andior checkup system four servos $2975 maximum Extra servos$25O Parts return shipment extra FREQUENCY CONVERSIONS-$2500 per system 50% off repair checkup SPECIALIZINGin competition systems frequency conversions FM equipment CUSTOM REPAIRSAll systems given personal attention test report comments careful cost control effort made return system likenew better operating condition HEATHKIT CUSTOMERSNew frequency conversions now available plugin systems$3500 per system AUTHORIZED FACTORY SERViCE FOR 1685 BeCkwith Dr Hudson OH 44236216 655-2278 pressures Im trying escape remembering takes kinds ac cept approach So Warner 1 Have invented several new words accompany breaking motor model Golly gee dingbunglers b murf c Gosh maybe shoulda stopped turn ago 2 Lomcevak Invented models long before tried real plane 3 Stomping model relieve stresses plane Mooney Well perhaps design landing gear uses music wire mounted external landing gear legs thus free flex absorb shock exactly innovations feel typically use plastic props almost everything probably put CG forward people mod els usually fly point Walts wife Carol interjected opinion Walts best innovations childrens names craft oriented Curtiss Ryan Douglas Martin Chrislea Bee Mooney Hannan That about does gang Any questions might wish asked Stark Yes about best Peanut models duration times 1 Heinkel 119 80 sec outdoors 60 sec indoors 2 Cessna Turbo Centurian 51 sec indoors plastic prop 3 Nakajima C6N Myrt 60 outdoors 55 sec indoors however difficult fly Martin 1 Does modeling have thing divorce 2 modeling good therapy out-of-touch reality 3 What sociogenic aspects aeromodeling world fraught complex schizo-effective pseudo-craftsmen Thompson The past year Ive busy harrassed hasnt time really concentrate ships endeavors flying mod els mainly concentration guy has two three ships knows well handles well situation go ing get results may build two three planes per year builds carefully superbly Clar ence Mather good example knows equipment wins easily Instead concentrating run around build models rather working what Ive got So poorly Im just too busy new next mountain properly use what already have said slap-happy Hannan rather heavy note seem have run out time Did have final questions Dave Stott $128000000 buried Grants tomb CL AerobaticslFanCher Continued page 70 will actually compete Reno education wish expand fund Stunt wisdom Inasmuch live just across Sierra Nevada Mountains Reno since good flying buddy Gary McClellan owns beautiful six-place Beechcraft Bonanza sometimes fly contests seemed logical should hop up Reno find out just what af fect mysterious forces nature actually going have Stunt ship Since hadnt really flown since Semi Finals day Chicopee Nats last year decided take day local fly ing field establish basic criteria compare Reno data aircraft used very competi tive conventional Stunters Garys OS 45F5R-powered 82 Nats qualifier based low-aspect-ratio Derringer wing own Celebration ST 46-powered derivative Excitation Cele bration 660-sq-in airplane 5975-in span aspect ratio 54 Weighed very accurate triplebeam balance scale weighed 523 ounces line length flights 66 ft 4 measured handle grip aircraft centerline flights made stock ST sprinkler-type venturi enlarged intake diameter 172 standard quantity fuel six ounces added flight NEW BUSY PEOPLE KITS CI TA ARIA STINSON 15 PROO ILL ILYINb MUULL $695 RUBBER POWER LOG $150 019 4424636 P ktMNOr 619 4698675 W Box 2406 -MA LA MESA CA 02041 FREE 1984 Catalog ol tools Hobbyist Miniature lathes Milling/drilling machines Jig & circular saws Styrofoam cutter VJt6all hobby products cc PO Box 07846 Columbus OH 432C 182 Model Aviation 1131 NW 45 Street Ft Liaderdale FL 33309 3051 491-6115 IENGINEERING THE LANDING GEAR PEOPLE Tired 1 kit landing gears dent lIt year Wggie preperty 0 & 0 Eogiaeerieg can solve veer prohiceis * Caste hailt te yanr needs & specs guareoteod lit * Strong & darahie withstand toughest Isedieg * II & 0 Engineering gear will work & keep year higgie llyiOg * In stock replacement gear tar meat papalar models Byron PlIts Christen Eagle CAP 21 Balsa USA J-3 CUB Air Toch Poweoc Eagle Nosee Big Slick Champ Citahna B & ft models Snapper Stieger cod Snapper Tea
Edition: Model Aviation - 1984/08
Page Numbers: 66, 67, 68, 69, 160, 162
THERE ARE MANY opinions regarding Peanuts ferent pathways success tiny Scale models fly Suppose could gather 10 well-known Peanut eers together discussion sub ject Geographical separations make difficult did next-best thing submitting series frequentlyasked questions answers appear fashion round-table conversation few small deletions have made avoid repetition remove some unneeded expletives may noticed sense humor important facet some Peanuteers personalities panel Bob Clemens real life photog rapher Eastman Kodak Rochester NY Scale model columnist Na tional Free Flight Society Journal Dave Linstrum Florida landscape architect editor VTO Free Flight column Model Airplane News Clarence Mather science teacher San Diego CA all-around builder eve rything microfilm models through Wakefields Dr John Martin Dentist editor Miami FL newsletter Hangar Pilot Walt Mooney Aeronautical engineer General Dynamics San Diego CA renowned Professor Peanuts Bob Peck Proprietor Peck-Polymers model aircraft company San Diego CA Tom Stark Retired Air Force officer St. Louis MO Experienced Scale Peanuts RC Dave Stott Professional model builder Sikorsky co-instigator original Peanut Scale concept Bridgeport CT Robert Sand Thompson School teacher co-instigator Peanut Scale idea two co-inventors Peanut Scale concept left Dave Stott holding larger-than-Peanut B-25 rubber-powered model during Flying Aces Club meet Scale models other co-inventor Bob Thompson left right-hand picturecaught action FAC Nats Tom Nallen right works rare Miles canard Both pictures Bill Noonan 66 Model Aviation Len uave Linstrum popuiar eaitor 0 tne VTU column Model Airplane News all sorts FF models including Pennyplane holding Right Sandy Bob Peck Peck-Polymers Photo snapped Ken Hannan during Peanut Scale postal contest L Walt Mooney genial Professor Peanuts prepares launch Found Centennial R Bill Warner holds Waco Peanut Hannan pics Roxbury CT Harold Bill Warner Teacher MA columnist Santa Monica CA Bill Hannan Gentlemen us familiar contest exploits modeling achievements backgrounds did start build models Peck Chicago IL about 1940 age six Stark My starting age too about 1934 first grade Mooney At age nine North ern California saw old Stinson straight winger fly over right wanted become airplane designer Models start direction Martin Philadelphia PA started. quite early before grade school think five years old 1932 first model called Mos quito recall no landing gear next model 10-cent Megow kit SE5 dad helped Thompson About 1944 some Maircraft solid models eight nine years old time havent stopped since Stott 1934 home under tutelage two older brothers Mather Lemont IL about 1934 Clemens Naperville IL Must have eight nine just before World War II started Clarence Mather just graduated Naperville High School time did meet him until 1945 ever father very fine modeler seeing him meticulously assemble Zipper 1941 early inspi rations Linstrum 1941 Omaha NE influ enced Olie Olson Herb Kothe CO Wright built Frank Zaic design Book Knowledge right page Warner Ravenna OH 1934 start ing cardboard stuff Hannan OK gentlemen could spend lot time early experiences purpose talk about Peanut Scale modeling Lets get right down specifics Materials example people strip own balsa Stott Yep Stark Yes Martin Only consent Serious ly use metal straightedge plastic cutting sheet single-edge razor blade Mather Usually I have found Pecks strips just good better Peck Thanks plug Clarence usually use regular strips except building strictly Indoor models Linstrum When single /46 square costs 10 cents Florida yes use Jim Jones superb stripper Fairgate metal rule Plexiglas #11 blade Clemens Only rarely like need odd size wing spar Mostly use commercially-cut Ao /42 Warner Yes 90% time Thompson Yes Ive forced Good wood hard come strips expensive now just doesnt pay Mooney Sometimes Only want particularly lightweight strips Usually select existing cut strips Unfortu nately often end up three fuselage longerons alike just different enough cause problem Hannan store balsa wood Warner In refrigerator really Just few boxes like everyone else re fuse state valuable Im considering keeping safe deposit box Thompson I have vast pile sheets attic keep straight rubberbands around some hardwood sheets top bottom pile Mooney I have about five big old Kodak film boxes stacked horizontally couple open-ended boxes stand ing vertically ease picking out sizes Trouble course anything shorter full length stock can re trieved dumping out entire box total quantity hand varies seems Im supplier some neighbor hood kids addition own sons approach look through available stock sale time enter hobby shop find exceptional stuff buy August 1984 67 figuring eventually will come handy After 40-some years building guess Ill keep awhile tually use Linstrum Mine Sig other card board boxes large 4-in -dia draw ing storage tubes metal caps Martin The average humidity Flori da about 78o just let stuff lay around use aged stuff isnt warped Clemens Horizontally Most large sheets several shelves uncovered open box strips Prime strips sheets Indoor use boxes covers make effort keep large sheets flat possible Peck In racksbalsa lays flattry keep warping Stark No special way Stott Flat cabinet Mather In large boxthe im portant thing sheets lie flat keep warping Hanuan How about motives people have philosophy modeling Stott Do can Mather I like own thing Rarely build anothers planseven know tops like competition also enjoy sport flying Peck I feel person has own reason building models some form art others like competi tion find relaxing other reasons personally build models way trying out ideas Modeling teaches thingshow reason under stand creativity use hands work tools materials basic engineering physics chemistry can help everyday life Clemens have philosophy must attitude toward modeling re gard pleasant challenging stimu lating fun pastime enjoy compet ing also enjoy flying alone talking myself try de-bug new Scale ship wring few seconds old Building flying small rubberpowered models brings simpler Left Author/moderator Bill Hannan CO2powered Peanut Scale Niauport monoplane Plc Linstrum Right Clarence Mather Morane-Saulnier Peanut Warren Shipp photo basic pleasures personal creativity skill once assort ment sticks sheets tissue some pieces sheet balsa now flying model airplane thats neat also en joy knowing other modelers seeing never-ending variety creations Linstrum approach build pret ty airplanes take best advantage ex isting rules Go optimum extremes Martin philosophy spend lot time flying building Thompson Build what interests What looks like interesting airplane yet has chance being passable flier rarely pick plane because looks like might good flier Like right now Im building Fiat CR 32 Interest ing plane mid-Thirties fighters lot airplane build rarely end up good fliers too details have add Im artistic enough merely draw have build adds up too often airbrush models fog color retard fading looks nice too adds weight Stark Choose subjects methods always challenging try pick subjects unusual Contest work ultimate test requiring lots practice preparation Never compete untested model Mooney Have fun youre hav ing fun quit Take up something else until have fun Warner Build what youre interested regardless whether its com petitive Never force yourself build fly dont feel like day night spirit upon Never put work model willing see wiped out crash lost thermal Build models no else has ever heard can coup Hannan Very well what about Pea nut models particular sepa rate philosophy Peanuts Linstrum Eat plenty Stott Eat em fly em whatever like Martin No Peanut should take week build Documentation should minimal Make em competi tive Have lots fun lots flying Warner Dont build em superscale takes fun out flying em Fly bleep out wind rain hail whatever superscale model may win contest spends its life box want go ape build regu lar-size Scale job Thompson Build what like few years ago did build first Lacey swept before son Since better builders fliers have taken over Ive just shut out. stomped So Ill go back what like ivian Curtiss export Falcon some such Peck I feel Peanuts interesting challenge due small size very rewarding find can per68 Model Aviation Tom Stark few lIC Scale models lie also has active classes Free Flight Scale models indoor outdoor including Peanuts form well larger models Peanuts have advantages low cost small construction area required can flown small fields gyms feel important since few larger areas left model flying Clemens Like have said like edible kind cant keep enjoying wanting feel strongly Peanuts flying Scale models should reflect both aspects appearance flight per formance can build such model win meets fine loophole hunting win contests puts totally wrong perspective event Im specifically referring ghost models may capable considerable dura tion Scale models wildest delusions builders Mooney Id say think flying scale fidelity should have equal value. moderation things superscale certainly ghost ships either Stark For performance choose clean airplanes retract gear retracted position long fuselage desirable Single-engine World War II bombers Golden Age racers long-distance air craft make good subjects Hannan Do fellows have inside tricks hints Peanut builders Stolt Nope Thompson Nothing better model ers havent come up Dont watch meet watch Dave Stott Fred Hall Chet Bukowski Mooney How shall put secrets available asking. probably worth just what pay Warner 1 wont fly loop 2mm Pirelli its too heavy 2 Plasticize nitrate dope 3 Make own bal sa wheels 4 Use Peck-Polymers nylon thrust bearing 5 Fly left 6 Learn spot thermals 7 Watch Clarence Mather 8 Steal Hannans secrets 9 Throw Peanut least 30 ft high before prop starts puts few turns wind pressure Peck With enough patience can build fly size model Nothing impossible Mather No secrets Ive told everything regarding building trimming published articles Martin Im too tricky divulge secrets Did Houdini tell Blackstone Does Namath tell Bradshaw told few white lies October 1975 Model Air plane News article tipped hand few issues Hangar Pilot deepest darkest secrets will never known Stark Build light pre-shrink tissue Clemens From th first stick pin plan constant effort should made keep weight down Light weight Peanuts result cumulative ef fects light wood use no needed careful assembly ensure QI 0 Hungorilla Dave Stotts term pent-up energy fully-wound rubber motorwhich sometimes can explode inside fuselage distressing results structure Artist Bill Miller has done entire series cartoons about thisbeast FAC Newsletter proper alignment careful covering light tissue Litecoat dope course good prop rubber selection impor tant too Dont assume prop best Build some means changing props too much difficulty Hannan Speaking props guys go about selecting untest ed Peanut Clemens Being strictly trial-and-error builder/flier Id probably choose prop based experience similar past model. using prop worked well before like let prop help con tribute needed nose ballast often use plastic lighter models long er noses such BD-4 know Ill have make lighter prop probably sheet balsa /32 ply blades hardwood spar Warner Id stick Sleek-Streek prop Right Bob Clemens outstanding modeler/ photographer two Peanutsa Waterman Mercury racer left Farman Moustique right Photo Michele Hallen Below Dr John Martin sometimes-zany editor Hangar Pilot newsletter pro moter annual Peanut Grand Prix until recently staged West Baden IN year Detroit Ml June it wouldnt perform well Id try Kaysun wouldnt Id try Peck-Polymers time model would probably destroyed Sleek Streeks usually work dont like wood props Too much work get just right snap Guess Im just serious enough Linstrum No comment use trial error unforgivable Props 13-in diameter seem work well Martin See article Hangar Pilot Author Doc uses sheet-wood-blade type prop 1 Select high-pitch prop very stable model configura tion rules out low-wingers short fuselage small-tail-area types latter craft use low-pitch prop 2 have ROG requirement club limits diameter 7-in Continued page 160 August1984 69 Scale Realism R/ C Aircraft Lightweight flexible super detailed pilot figures FF DurationlMeuser Continued page 157 1cm CG center gravity shift motor unwinds longer fuselage further motor peg CG greater chance stall under power stall glide portion flight shorten motor length either moving motor peg ward actually chopping off hank rubber youve defeated purpose having long fuselage first place George Perryman obviously faced same cascading sets problems designed gigantic Great Speckled Bird NFFS Dick Korda Open Rubber event Georges solution go gearing sytem no great shakes except George gave little unique Perryinan twist gear mechanism rear planenot front Does mean plane reverse gear George As photos show two mo tor hooks facing forward gearing mechanism immediately behind what appears ply plate metal bush ings small circular hole apparently stop-rod keep everything unraveling winding relieve undue pressure gears themselves double noseblock allows winding both motors front plane motor run snakey stuff unbelievably long cant rind notes exact length George no problem whatsoever unwound motors upsetting CG Very ingeniouswhich what have come expect George Perryman Radio Controlled Free Flight knew would get attention Actually has nothing radio controlled CIVILIAN BUSTS NOW AVAILABLE 1/3 1/4 1/5 S2OO shipping bust AT YOUR HOBBY SHOP Free Flight What does have Gil Morris Toothpicks designer use small radio transmitter mounted streamlined pod atop wing plane Gils mouse calls emits electronic beeps help him locate retrieve plane midst jungle-like growth sometimes have fly Gil reports good success device Im sure hed happy supply details about exact components sent SASE self-addressed stamped envelope Gilbert Morris 2810 Brackey Rd Columbus OH 43220 Nickels roll cause theyre round niftiest hints Ive encountered comes Jerry Skrjanc Mi cro-X man Ive always trouble mak ing small wheels sheet balsa lamina tions same just never seems can get finish up round Regard less carefully cut out some lose sanding process wheel takes its own whopperjawed characteristics late game next time youre faced wheel-making task sandwich wheel blank between two coins appropri ate size sand right down metal Neat huh pinch coins tightly enough easy task Free Flight ers theres just no way can wrong Speaking wheels its time wheel out let Bob Meuser return accustomed revered place next month hope Ill get meet along contest trail season Free Flight forever address Larry Kruse Box 1137 Liberal KS 67901 Photos drawings correspondence dealing Free Flight sub jects should continue sent 1 regular Contributing Editor Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oakland CA 94619 Peanut ParsylHannan Continued page 69 prop great duration sure looks like bleep Mather The plastic props available about good anyone can make Wil liams Brothers props cut down neces sary excellent Stark Start plastic prop get airplane trimmed Measure thrust prop rubber size works make wooden props per form better plastic Peck Past experience guide choose large diameter will clear ROG usually cutting down longer prop blade area general like use plastic props necessary will carve wooden prop obtain pitch area desire competition light model prefer high-pitch prop larger area blade Stott First try like worked similar model Thompson Carve 5-in block prop see what get can cut shaped twisted fiddled ways can nearly always get satisfactory prop out Hnnnnn Changing subject bit people regarded innovators What ideas feel may have con tributed Peanut modeling Martin The art winning very lit tle talent concept stand-off Pea nut Scale judges 50 feet away model Coined mottos Peanuts ever sic semper Peanutus Indoor everyone non semper indoorus Mather I cant think Stark I may have started trend toward fat-fuselage models Cou gar 1963 64 Stott Took HUNGoriIla out jungle made him what today Peck believe have made easier average person build Peanut Scale modelsby offering kits have parts understandable plans construction Also designed produced precision nylon thrust bearings used great modelers Thompson Very little Peanut Scale has caught due effortsbut rather due Dave Stott other modelers have made things go Perhaps have reintroduced feeling having fun some messing about rule book propos ailing cross-proposalling having fun Just because tend slap-dash slap-happy about things hardly makes right contest record abysmal shows poverty approach enjoy myself way what models get away pres sures might cause rather re sent see increasing Continued page 162 160 Model Aviation KNIGHTS AIR PILOT BUSTS AND FULL FIGURES Perfect oldest newest next creation give plane pilot FULL FIGURES 115 CIVILIANS1Z95 1/4 CIVILIANS1495 1/3 CIVILIAN81995 NEW RELEASES 1/5 WWII US NAVY 395 1/6 WWII US AAF 195 CIVILIAN8895 specify airplane helicopter S25S shipping figwe ORDER YOURS TODAY Wiliism M Hawke 7148 Iasting Light Way Columbia MD 21045 301 730-5596 NEW RELEASE 1/5 WWII us NAVY Kraft RIC Electronics PERSONAL SERVICE BY —-pMILT ERB SPECIAL LOW PRICESService charge repair andior checkup system four servos $2975 maximum Extra servos$25O Parts return shipment extra FREQUENCY CONVERSIONS-$2500 per system 50% off repair checkup SPECIALIZINGin competition systems frequency conversions FM equipment CUSTOM REPAIRSAll systems given personal attention test report comments careful cost control effort made return system likenew better operating condition HEATHKIT CUSTOMERSNew frequency conversions now available plugin systems$3500 per system AUTHORIZED FACTORY SERViCE FOR 1685 BeCkwith Dr Hudson OH 44236216 655-2278 pressures Im trying escape remembering takes kinds ac cept approach So Warner 1 Have invented several new words accompany breaking motor model Golly gee dingbunglers b murf c Gosh maybe shoulda stopped turn ago 2 Lomcevak Invented models long before tried real plane 3 Stomping model relieve stresses plane Mooney Well perhaps design landing gear uses music wire mounted external landing gear legs thus free flex absorb shock exactly innovations feel typically use plastic props almost everything probably put CG forward people mod els usually fly point Walts wife Carol interjected opinion Walts best innovations childrens names craft oriented Curtiss Ryan Douglas Martin Chrislea Bee Mooney Hannan That about does gang Any questions might wish asked Stark Yes about best Peanut models duration times 1 Heinkel 119 80 sec outdoors 60 sec indoors 2 Cessna Turbo Centurian 51 sec indoors plastic prop 3 Nakajima C6N Myrt 60 outdoors 55 sec indoors however difficult fly Martin 1 Does modeling have thing divorce 2 modeling good therapy out-of-touch reality 3 What sociogenic aspects aeromodeling world fraught complex schizo-effective pseudo-craftsmen Thompson The past year Ive busy harrassed hasnt time really concentrate ships endeavors flying mod els mainly concentration guy has two three ships knows well handles well situation go ing get results may build two three planes per year builds carefully superbly Clar ence Mather good example knows equipment wins easily Instead concentrating run around build models rather working what Ive got So poorly Im just too busy new next mountain properly use what already have said slap-happy Hannan rather heavy note seem have run out time Did have final questions Dave Stott $128000000 buried Grants tomb CL AerobaticslFanCher Continued page 70 will actually compete Reno education wish expand fund Stunt wisdom Inasmuch live just across Sierra Nevada Mountains Reno since good flying buddy Gary McClellan owns beautiful six-place Beechcraft Bonanza sometimes fly contests seemed logical should hop up Reno find out just what af fect mysterious forces nature actually going have Stunt ship Since hadnt really flown since Semi Finals day Chicopee Nats last year decided take day local fly ing field establish basic criteria compare Reno data aircraft used very competi tive conventional Stunters Garys OS 45F5R-powered 82 Nats qualifier based low-aspect-ratio Derringer wing own Celebration ST 46-powered derivative Excitation Cele bration 660-sq-in airplane 5975-in span aspect ratio 54 Weighed very accurate triplebeam balance scale weighed 523 ounces line length flights 66 ft 4 measured handle grip aircraft centerline flights made stock ST sprinkler-type venturi enlarged intake diameter 172 standard quantity fuel six ounces added flight NEW BUSY PEOPLE KITS CI TA ARIA STINSON 15 PROO ILL ILYINb MUULL $695 RUBBER POWER LOG $150 019 4424636 P ktMNOr 619 4698675 W Box 2406 -MA LA MESA CA 02041 FREE 1984 Catalog ol tools Hobbyist Miniature lathes Milling/drilling machines Jig & circular saws Styrofoam cutter VJt6all hobby products cc PO Box 07846 Columbus OH 432C 182 Model Aviation 1131 NW 45 Street Ft Liaderdale FL 33309 3051 491-6115 IENGINEERING THE LANDING GEAR PEOPLE Tired 1 kit landing gears dent lIt year Wggie preperty 0 & 0 Eogiaeerieg can solve veer prohiceis * Caste hailt te yanr needs & specs guareoteod lit * Strong & darahie withstand toughest Isedieg * II & 0 Engineering gear will work & keep year higgie llyiOg * In stock replacement gear tar meat papalar models Byron PlIts Christen Eagle CAP 21 Balsa USA J-3 CUB Air Toch Poweoc Eagle Nosee Big Slick Champ Citahna B & ft models Snapper Stieger cod Snapper Tea
Edition: Model Aviation - 1984/08
Page Numbers: 66, 67, 68, 69, 160, 162
THERE ARE MANY opinions regarding Peanuts ferent pathways success tiny Scale models fly Suppose could gather 10 well-known Peanut eers together discussion sub ject Geographical separations make difficult did next-best thing submitting series frequentlyasked questions answers appear fashion round-table conversation few small deletions have made avoid repetition remove some unneeded expletives may noticed sense humor important facet some Peanuteers personalities panel Bob Clemens real life photog rapher Eastman Kodak Rochester NY Scale model columnist Na tional Free Flight Society Journal Dave Linstrum Florida landscape architect editor VTO Free Flight column Model Airplane News Clarence Mather science teacher San Diego CA all-around builder eve rything microfilm models through Wakefields Dr John Martin Dentist editor Miami FL newsletter Hangar Pilot Walt Mooney Aeronautical engineer General Dynamics San Diego CA renowned Professor Peanuts Bob Peck Proprietor Peck-Polymers model aircraft company San Diego CA Tom Stark Retired Air Force officer St. Louis MO Experienced Scale Peanuts RC Dave Stott Professional model builder Sikorsky co-instigator original Peanut Scale concept Bridgeport CT Robert Sand Thompson School teacher co-instigator Peanut Scale idea two co-inventors Peanut Scale concept left Dave Stott holding larger-than-Peanut B-25 rubber-powered model during Flying Aces Club meet Scale models other co-inventor Bob Thompson left right-hand picturecaught action FAC Nats Tom Nallen right works rare Miles canard Both pictures Bill Noonan 66 Model Aviation Len uave Linstrum popuiar eaitor 0 tne VTU column Model Airplane News all sorts FF models including Pennyplane holding Right Sandy Bob Peck Peck-Polymers Photo snapped Ken Hannan during Peanut Scale postal contest L Walt Mooney genial Professor Peanuts prepares launch Found Centennial R Bill Warner holds Waco Peanut Hannan pics Roxbury CT Harold Bill Warner Teacher MA columnist Santa Monica CA Bill Hannan Gentlemen us familiar contest exploits modeling achievements backgrounds did start build models Peck Chicago IL about 1940 age six Stark My starting age too about 1934 first grade Mooney At age nine North ern California saw old Stinson straight winger fly over right wanted become airplane designer Models start direction Martin Philadelphia PA started. quite early before grade school think five years old 1932 first model called Mos quito recall no landing gear next model 10-cent Megow kit SE5 dad helped Thompson About 1944 some Maircraft solid models eight nine years old time havent stopped since Stott 1934 home under tutelage two older brothers Mather Lemont IL about 1934 Clemens Naperville IL Must have eight nine just before World War II started Clarence Mather just graduated Naperville High School time did meet him until 1945 ever father very fine modeler seeing him meticulously assemble Zipper 1941 early inspi rations Linstrum 1941 Omaha NE influ enced Olie Olson Herb Kothe CO Wright built Frank Zaic design Book Knowledge right page Warner Ravenna OH 1934 start ing cardboard stuff Hannan OK gentlemen could spend lot time early experiences purpose talk about Peanut Scale modeling Lets get right down specifics Materials example people strip own balsa Stott Yep Stark Yes Martin Only consent Serious ly use metal straightedge plastic cutting sheet single-edge razor blade Mather Usually I have found Pecks strips just good better Peck Thanks plug Clarence usually use regular strips except building strictly Indoor models Linstrum When single /46 square costs 10 cents Florida yes use Jim Jones superb stripper Fairgate metal rule Plexiglas #11 blade Clemens Only rarely like need odd size wing spar Mostly use commercially-cut Ao /42 Warner Yes 90% time Thompson Yes Ive forced Good wood hard come strips expensive now just doesnt pay Mooney Sometimes Only want particularly lightweight strips Usually select existing cut strips Unfortu nately often end up three fuselage longerons alike just different enough cause problem Hannan store balsa wood Warner In refrigerator really Just few boxes like everyone else re fuse state valuable Im considering keeping safe deposit box Thompson I have vast pile sheets attic keep straight rubberbands around some hardwood sheets top bottom pile Mooney I have about five big old Kodak film boxes stacked horizontally couple open-ended boxes stand ing vertically ease picking out sizes Trouble course anything shorter full length stock can re trieved dumping out entire box total quantity hand varies seems Im supplier some neighbor hood kids addition own sons approach look through available stock sale time enter hobby shop find exceptional stuff buy August 1984 67 figuring eventually will come handy After 40-some years building guess Ill keep awhile tually use Linstrum Mine Sig other card board boxes large 4-in -dia draw ing storage tubes metal caps Martin The average humidity Flori da about 78o just let stuff lay around use aged stuff isnt warped Clemens Horizontally Most large sheets several shelves uncovered open box strips Prime strips sheets Indoor use boxes covers make effort keep large sheets flat possible Peck In racksbalsa lays flattry keep warping Stark No special way Stott Flat cabinet Mather In large boxthe im portant thing sheets lie flat keep warping Hanuan How about motives people have philosophy modeling Stott Do can Mather I like own thing Rarely build anothers planseven know tops like competition also enjoy sport flying Peck I feel person has own reason building models some form art others like competi tion find relaxing other reasons personally build models way trying out ideas Modeling teaches thingshow reason under stand creativity use hands work tools materials basic engineering physics chemistry can help everyday life Clemens have philosophy must attitude toward modeling re gard pleasant challenging stimu lating fun pastime enjoy compet ing also enjoy flying alone talking myself try de-bug new Scale ship wring few seconds old Building flying small rubberpowered models brings simpler Left Author/moderator Bill Hannan CO2powered Peanut Scale Niauport monoplane Plc Linstrum Right Clarence Mather Morane-Saulnier Peanut Warren Shipp photo basic pleasures personal creativity skill once assort ment sticks sheets tissue some pieces sheet balsa now flying model airplane thats neat also en joy knowing other modelers seeing never-ending variety creations Linstrum approach build pret ty airplanes take best advantage ex isting rules Go optimum extremes Martin philosophy spend lot time flying building Thompson Build what interests What looks like interesting airplane yet has chance being passable flier rarely pick plane because looks like might good flier Like right now Im building Fiat CR 32 Interest ing plane mid-Thirties fighters lot airplane build rarely end up good fliers too details have add Im artistic enough merely draw have build adds up too often airbrush models fog color retard fading looks nice too adds weight Stark Choose subjects methods always challenging try pick subjects unusual Contest work ultimate test requiring lots practice preparation Never compete untested model Mooney Have fun youre hav ing fun quit Take up something else until have fun Warner Build what youre interested regardless whether its com petitive Never force yourself build fly dont feel like day night spirit upon Never put work model willing see wiped out crash lost thermal Build models no else has ever heard can coup Hannan Very well what about Pea nut models particular sepa rate philosophy Peanuts Linstrum Eat plenty Stott Eat em fly em whatever like Martin No Peanut should take week build Documentation should minimal Make em competi tive Have lots fun lots flying Warner Dont build em superscale takes fun out flying em Fly bleep out wind rain hail whatever superscale model may win contest spends its life box want go ape build regu lar-size Scale job Thompson Build what like few years ago did build first Lacey swept before son Since better builders fliers have taken over Ive just shut out. stomped So Ill go back what like ivian Curtiss export Falcon some such Peck I feel Peanuts interesting challenge due small size very rewarding find can per68 Model Aviation Tom Stark few lIC Scale models lie also has active classes Free Flight Scale models indoor outdoor including Peanuts form well larger models Peanuts have advantages low cost small construction area required can flown small fields gyms feel important since few larger areas left model flying Clemens Like have said like edible kind cant keep enjoying wanting feel strongly Peanuts flying Scale models should reflect both aspects appearance flight per formance can build such model win meets fine loophole hunting win contests puts totally wrong perspective event Im specifically referring ghost models may capable considerable dura tion Scale models wildest delusions builders Mooney Id say think flying scale fidelity should have equal value. moderation things superscale certainly ghost ships either Stark For performance choose clean airplanes retract gear retracted position long fuselage desirable Single-engine World War II bombers Golden Age racers long-distance air craft make good subjects Hannan Do fellows have inside tricks hints Peanut builders Stolt Nope Thompson Nothing better model ers havent come up Dont watch meet watch Dave Stott Fred Hall Chet Bukowski Mooney How shall put secrets available asking. probably worth just what pay Warner 1 wont fly loop 2mm Pirelli its too heavy 2 Plasticize nitrate dope 3 Make own bal sa wheels 4 Use Peck-Polymers nylon thrust bearing 5 Fly left 6 Learn spot thermals 7 Watch Clarence Mather 8 Steal Hannans secrets 9 Throw Peanut least 30 ft high before prop starts puts few turns wind pressure Peck With enough patience can build fly size model Nothing impossible Mather No secrets Ive told everything regarding building trimming published articles Martin Im too tricky divulge secrets Did Houdini tell Blackstone Does Namath tell Bradshaw told few white lies October 1975 Model Air plane News article tipped hand few issues Hangar Pilot deepest darkest secrets will never known Stark Build light pre-shrink tissue Clemens From th first stick pin plan constant effort should made keep weight down Light weight Peanuts result cumulative ef fects light wood use no needed careful assembly ensure QI 0 Hungorilla Dave Stotts term pent-up energy fully-wound rubber motorwhich sometimes can explode inside fuselage distressing results structure Artist Bill Miller has done entire series cartoons about thisbeast FAC Newsletter proper alignment careful covering light tissue Litecoat dope course good prop rubber selection impor tant too Dont assume prop best Build some means changing props too much difficulty Hannan Speaking props guys go about selecting untest ed Peanut Clemens Being strictly trial-and-error builder/flier Id probably choose prop based experience similar past model. using prop worked well before like let prop help con tribute needed nose ballast often use plastic lighter models long er noses such BD-4 know Ill have make lighter prop probably sheet balsa /32 ply blades hardwood spar Warner Id stick Sleek-Streek prop Right Bob Clemens outstanding modeler/ photographer two Peanutsa Waterman Mercury racer left Farman Moustique right Photo Michele Hallen Below Dr John Martin sometimes-zany editor Hangar Pilot newsletter pro moter annual Peanut Grand Prix until recently staged West Baden IN year Detroit Ml June it wouldnt perform well Id try Kaysun wouldnt Id try Peck-Polymers time model would probably destroyed Sleek Streeks usually work dont like wood props Too much work get just right snap Guess Im just serious enough Linstrum No comment use trial error unforgivable Props 13-in diameter seem work well Martin See article Hangar Pilot Author Doc uses sheet-wood-blade type prop 1 Select high-pitch prop very stable model configura tion rules out low-wingers short fuselage small-tail-area types latter craft use low-pitch prop 2 have ROG requirement club limits diameter 7-in Continued page 160 August1984 69 Scale Realism R/ C Aircraft Lightweight flexible super detailed pilot figures FF DurationlMeuser Continued page 157 1cm CG center gravity shift motor unwinds longer fuselage further motor peg CG greater chance stall under power stall glide portion flight shorten motor length either moving motor peg ward actually chopping off hank rubber youve defeated purpose having long fuselage first place George Perryman obviously faced same cascading sets problems designed gigantic Great Speckled Bird NFFS Dick Korda Open Rubber event Georges solution go gearing sytem no great shakes except George gave little unique Perryinan twist gear mechanism rear planenot front Does mean plane reverse gear George As photos show two mo tor hooks facing forward gearing mechanism immediately behind what appears ply plate metal bush ings small circular hole apparently stop-rod keep everything unraveling winding relieve undue pressure gears themselves double noseblock allows winding both motors front plane motor run snakey stuff unbelievably long cant rind notes exact length George no problem whatsoever unwound motors upsetting CG Very ingeniouswhich what have come expect George Perryman Radio Controlled Free Flight knew would get attention Actually has nothing radio controlled CIVILIAN BUSTS NOW AVAILABLE 1/3 1/4 1/5 S2OO shipping bust AT YOUR HOBBY SHOP Free Flight What does have Gil Morris Toothpicks designer use small radio transmitter mounted streamlined pod atop wing plane Gils mouse calls emits electronic beeps help him locate retrieve plane midst jungle-like growth sometimes have fly Gil reports good success device Im sure hed happy supply details about exact components sent SASE self-addressed stamped envelope Gilbert Morris 2810 Brackey Rd Columbus OH 43220 Nickels roll cause theyre round niftiest hints Ive encountered comes Jerry Skrjanc Mi cro-X man Ive always trouble mak ing small wheels sheet balsa lamina tions same just never seems can get finish up round Regard less carefully cut out some lose sanding process wheel takes its own whopperjawed characteristics late game next time youre faced wheel-making task sandwich wheel blank between two coins appropri ate size sand right down metal Neat huh pinch coins tightly enough easy task Free Flight ers theres just no way can wrong Speaking wheels its time wheel out let Bob Meuser return accustomed revered place next month hope Ill get meet along contest trail season Free Flight forever address Larry Kruse Box 1137 Liberal KS 67901 Photos drawings correspondence dealing Free Flight sub jects should continue sent 1 regular Contributing Editor Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oakland CA 94619 Peanut ParsylHannan Continued page 69 prop great duration sure looks like bleep Mather The plastic props available about good anyone can make Wil liams Brothers props cut down neces sary excellent Stark Start plastic prop get airplane trimmed Measure thrust prop rubber size works make wooden props per form better plastic Peck Past experience guide choose large diameter will clear ROG usually cutting down longer prop blade area general like use plastic props necessary will carve wooden prop obtain pitch area desire competition light model prefer high-pitch prop larger area blade Stott First try like worked similar model Thompson Carve 5-in block prop see what get can cut shaped twisted fiddled ways can nearly always get satisfactory prop out Hnnnnn Changing subject bit people regarded innovators What ideas feel may have con tributed Peanut modeling Martin The art winning very lit tle talent concept stand-off Pea nut Scale judges 50 feet away model Coined mottos Peanuts ever sic semper Peanutus Indoor everyone non semper indoorus Mather I cant think Stark I may have started trend toward fat-fuselage models Cou gar 1963 64 Stott Took HUNGoriIla out jungle made him what today Peck believe have made easier average person build Peanut Scale modelsby offering kits have parts understandable plans construction Also designed produced precision nylon thrust bearings used great modelers Thompson Very little Peanut Scale has caught due effortsbut rather due Dave Stott other modelers have made things go Perhaps have reintroduced feeling having fun some messing about rule book propos ailing cross-proposalling having fun Just because tend slap-dash slap-happy about things hardly makes right contest record abysmal shows poverty approach enjoy myself way what models get away pres sures might cause rather re sent see increasing Continued page 162 160 Model Aviation KNIGHTS AIR PILOT BUSTS AND FULL FIGURES Perfect oldest newest next creation give plane pilot FULL FIGURES 115 CIVILIANS1Z95 1/4 CIVILIANS1495 1/3 CIVILIAN81995 NEW RELEASES 1/5 WWII US NAVY 395 1/6 WWII US AAF 195 CIVILIAN8895 specify airplane helicopter S25S shipping figwe ORDER YOURS TODAY Wiliism M Hawke 7148 Iasting Light Way Columbia MD 21045 301 730-5596 NEW RELEASE 1/5 WWII us NAVY Kraft RIC Electronics PERSONAL SERVICE BY —-pMILT ERB SPECIAL LOW PRICESService charge repair andior checkup system four servos $2975 maximum Extra servos$25O Parts return shipment extra FREQUENCY CONVERSIONS-$2500 per system 50% off repair checkup SPECIALIZINGin competition systems frequency conversions FM equipment CUSTOM REPAIRSAll systems given personal attention test report comments careful cost control effort made return system likenew better operating condition HEATHKIT CUSTOMERSNew frequency conversions now available plugin systems$3500 per system AUTHORIZED FACTORY SERViCE FOR 1685 BeCkwith Dr Hudson OH 44236216 655-2278 pressures Im trying escape remembering takes kinds ac cept approach So Warner 1 Have invented several new words accompany breaking motor model Golly gee dingbunglers b murf c Gosh maybe shoulda stopped turn ago 2 Lomcevak Invented models long before tried real plane 3 Stomping model relieve stresses plane Mooney Well perhaps design landing gear uses music wire mounted external landing gear legs thus free flex absorb shock exactly innovations feel typically use plastic props almost everything probably put CG forward people mod els usually fly point Walts wife Carol interjected opinion Walts best innovations childrens names craft oriented Curtiss Ryan Douglas Martin Chrislea Bee Mooney Hannan That about does gang Any questions might wish asked Stark Yes about best Peanut models duration times 1 Heinkel 119 80 sec outdoors 60 sec indoors 2 Cessna Turbo Centurian 51 sec indoors plastic prop 3 Nakajima C6N Myrt 60 outdoors 55 sec indoors however difficult fly Martin 1 Does modeling have thing divorce 2 modeling good therapy out-of-touch reality 3 What sociogenic aspects aeromodeling world fraught complex schizo-effective pseudo-craftsmen Thompson The past year Ive busy harrassed hasnt time really concentrate ships endeavors flying mod els mainly concentration guy has two three ships knows well handles well situation go ing get results may build two three planes per year builds carefully superbly Clar ence Mather good example knows equipment wins easily Instead concentrating run around build models rather working what Ive got So poorly Im just too busy new next mountain properly use what already have said slap-happy Hannan rather heavy note seem have run out time Did have final questions Dave Stott $128000000 buried Grants tomb CL AerobaticslFanCher Continued page 70 will actually compete Reno education wish expand fund Stunt wisdom Inasmuch live just across Sierra Nevada Mountains Reno since good flying buddy Gary McClellan owns beautiful six-place Beechcraft Bonanza sometimes fly contests seemed logical should hop up Reno find out just what af fect mysterious forces nature actually going have Stunt ship Since hadnt really flown since Semi Finals day Chicopee Nats last year decided take day local fly ing field establish basic criteria compare Reno data aircraft used very competi tive conventional Stunters Garys OS 45F5R-powered 82 Nats qualifier based low-aspect-ratio Derringer wing own Celebration ST 46-powered derivative Excitation Cele bration 660-sq-in airplane 5975-in span aspect ratio 54 Weighed very accurate triplebeam balance scale weighed 523 ounces line length flights 66 ft 4 measured handle grip aircraft centerline flights made stock ST sprinkler-type venturi enlarged intake diameter 172 standard quantity fuel six ounces added flight NEW BUSY PEOPLE KITS CI TA ARIA STINSON 15 PROO ILL ILYINb MUULL $695 RUBBER POWER LOG $150 019 4424636 P ktMNOr 619 4698675 W Box 2406 -MA LA MESA CA 02041 FREE 1984 Catalog ol tools Hobbyist Miniature lathes Milling/drilling machines Jig & circular saws Styrofoam cutter VJt6all hobby products cc PO Box 07846 Columbus OH 432C 182 Model Aviation 1131 NW 45 Street Ft Liaderdale FL 33309 3051 491-6115 IENGINEERING THE LANDING GEAR PEOPLE Tired 1 kit landing gears dent lIt year Wggie preperty 0 & 0 Eogiaeerieg can solve veer prohiceis * Caste hailt te yanr needs & specs guareoteod lit * Strong & darahie withstand toughest Isedieg * II & 0 Engineering gear will work & keep year higgie llyiOg * In stock replacement gear tar meat papalar models Byron PlIts Christen Eagle CAP 21 Balsa USA J-3 CUB Air Toch Poweoc Eagle Nosee Big Slick Champ Citahna B & ft models Snapper Stieger cod Snapper Tea
Edition: Model Aviation - 1984/08
Page Numbers: 66, 67, 68, 69, 160, 162
THERE ARE MANY opinions regarding Peanuts ferent pathways success tiny Scale models fly Suppose could gather 10 well-known Peanut eers together discussion sub ject Geographical separations make difficult did next-best thing submitting series frequentlyasked questions answers appear fashion round-table conversation few small deletions have made avoid repetition remove some unneeded expletives may noticed sense humor important facet some Peanuteers personalities panel Bob Clemens real life photog rapher Eastman Kodak Rochester NY Scale model columnist Na tional Free Flight Society Journal Dave Linstrum Florida landscape architect editor VTO Free Flight column Model Airplane News Clarence Mather science teacher San Diego CA all-around builder eve rything microfilm models through Wakefields Dr John Martin Dentist editor Miami FL newsletter Hangar Pilot Walt Mooney Aeronautical engineer General Dynamics San Diego CA renowned Professor Peanuts Bob Peck Proprietor Peck-Polymers model aircraft company San Diego CA Tom Stark Retired Air Force officer St. Louis MO Experienced Scale Peanuts RC Dave Stott Professional model builder Sikorsky co-instigator original Peanut Scale concept Bridgeport CT Robert Sand Thompson School teacher co-instigator Peanut Scale idea two co-inventors Peanut Scale concept left Dave Stott holding larger-than-Peanut B-25 rubber-powered model during Flying Aces Club meet Scale models other co-inventor Bob Thompson left right-hand picturecaught action FAC Nats Tom Nallen right works rare Miles canard Both pictures Bill Noonan 66 Model Aviation Len uave Linstrum popuiar eaitor 0 tne VTU column Model Airplane News all sorts FF models including Pennyplane holding Right Sandy Bob Peck Peck-Polymers Photo snapped Ken Hannan during Peanut Scale postal contest L Walt Mooney genial Professor Peanuts prepares launch Found Centennial R Bill Warner holds Waco Peanut Hannan pics Roxbury CT Harold Bill Warner Teacher MA columnist Santa Monica CA Bill Hannan Gentlemen us familiar contest exploits modeling achievements backgrounds did start build models Peck Chicago IL about 1940 age six Stark My starting age too about 1934 first grade Mooney At age nine North ern California saw old Stinson straight winger fly over right wanted become airplane designer Models start direction Martin Philadelphia PA started. quite early before grade school think five years old 1932 first model called Mos quito recall no landing gear next model 10-cent Megow kit SE5 dad helped Thompson About 1944 some Maircraft solid models eight nine years old time havent stopped since Stott 1934 home under tutelage two older brothers Mather Lemont IL about 1934 Clemens Naperville IL Must have eight nine just before World War II started Clarence Mather just graduated Naperville High School time did meet him until 1945 ever father very fine modeler seeing him meticulously assemble Zipper 1941 early inspi rations Linstrum 1941 Omaha NE influ enced Olie Olson Herb Kothe CO Wright built Frank Zaic design Book Knowledge right page Warner Ravenna OH 1934 start ing cardboard stuff Hannan OK gentlemen could spend lot time early experiences purpose talk about Peanut Scale modeling Lets get right down specifics Materials example people strip own balsa Stott Yep Stark Yes Martin Only consent Serious ly use metal straightedge plastic cutting sheet single-edge razor blade Mather Usually I have found Pecks strips just good better Peck Thanks plug Clarence usually use regular strips except building strictly Indoor models Linstrum When single /46 square costs 10 cents Florida yes use Jim Jones superb stripper Fairgate metal rule Plexiglas #11 blade Clemens Only rarely like need odd size wing spar Mostly use commercially-cut Ao /42 Warner Yes 90% time Thompson Yes Ive forced Good wood hard come strips expensive now just doesnt pay Mooney Sometimes Only want particularly lightweight strips Usually select existing cut strips Unfortu nately often end up three fuselage longerons alike just different enough cause problem Hannan store balsa wood Warner In refrigerator really Just few boxes like everyone else re fuse state valuable Im considering keeping safe deposit box Thompson I have vast pile sheets attic keep straight rubberbands around some hardwood sheets top bottom pile Mooney I have about five big old Kodak film boxes stacked horizontally couple open-ended boxes stand ing vertically ease picking out sizes Trouble course anything shorter full length stock can re trieved dumping out entire box total quantity hand varies seems Im supplier some neighbor hood kids addition own sons approach look through available stock sale time enter hobby shop find exceptional stuff buy August 1984 67 figuring eventually will come handy After 40-some years building guess Ill keep awhile tually use Linstrum Mine Sig other card board boxes large 4-in -dia draw ing storage tubes metal caps Martin The average humidity Flori da about 78o just let stuff lay around use aged stuff isnt warped Clemens Horizontally Most large sheets several shelves uncovered open box strips Prime strips sheets Indoor use boxes covers make effort keep large sheets flat possible Peck In racksbalsa lays flattry keep warping Stark No special way Stott Flat cabinet Mather In large boxthe im portant thing sheets lie flat keep warping Hanuan How about motives people have philosophy modeling Stott Do can Mather I like own thing Rarely build anothers planseven know tops like competition also enjoy sport flying Peck I feel person has own reason building models some form art others like competi tion find relaxing other reasons personally build models way trying out ideas Modeling teaches thingshow reason under stand creativity use hands work tools materials basic engineering physics chemistry can help everyday life Clemens have philosophy must attitude toward modeling re gard pleasant challenging stimu lating fun pastime enjoy compet ing also enjoy flying alone talking myself try de-bug new Scale ship wring few seconds old Building flying small rubberpowered models brings simpler Left Author/moderator Bill Hannan CO2powered Peanut Scale Niauport monoplane Plc Linstrum Right Clarence Mather Morane-Saulnier Peanut Warren Shipp photo basic pleasures personal creativity skill once assort ment sticks sheets tissue some pieces sheet balsa now flying model airplane thats neat also en joy knowing other modelers seeing never-ending variety creations Linstrum approach build pret ty airplanes take best advantage ex isting rules Go optimum extremes Martin philosophy spend lot time flying building Thompson Build what interests What looks like interesting airplane yet has chance being passable flier rarely pick plane because looks like might good flier Like right now Im building Fiat CR 32 Interest ing plane mid-Thirties fighters lot airplane build rarely end up good fliers too details have add Im artistic enough merely draw have build adds up too often airbrush models fog color retard fading looks nice too adds weight Stark Choose subjects methods always challenging try pick subjects unusual Contest work ultimate test requiring lots practice preparation Never compete untested model Mooney Have fun youre hav ing fun quit Take up something else until have fun Warner Build what youre interested regardless whether its com petitive Never force yourself build fly dont feel like day night spirit upon Never put work model willing see wiped out crash lost thermal Build models no else has ever heard can coup Hannan Very well what about Pea nut models particular sepa rate philosophy Peanuts Linstrum Eat plenty Stott Eat em fly em whatever like Martin No Peanut should take week build Documentation should minimal Make em competi tive Have lots fun lots flying Warner Dont build em superscale takes fun out flying em Fly bleep out wind rain hail whatever superscale model may win contest spends its life box want go ape build regu lar-size Scale job Thompson Build what like few years ago did build first Lacey swept before son Since better builders fliers have taken over Ive just shut out. stomped So Ill go back what like ivian Curtiss export Falcon some such Peck I feel Peanuts interesting challenge due small size very rewarding find can per68 Model Aviation Tom Stark few lIC Scale models lie also has active classes Free Flight Scale models indoor outdoor including Peanuts form well larger models Peanuts have advantages low cost small construction area required can flown small fields gyms feel important since few larger areas left model flying Clemens Like have said like edible kind cant keep enjoying wanting feel strongly Peanuts flying Scale models should reflect both aspects appearance flight per formance can build such model win meets fine loophole hunting win contests puts totally wrong perspective event Im specifically referring ghost models may capable considerable dura tion Scale models wildest delusions builders Mooney Id say think flying scale fidelity should have equal value. moderation things superscale certainly ghost ships either Stark For performance choose clean airplanes retract gear retracted position long fuselage desirable Single-engine World War II bombers Golden Age racers long-distance air craft make good subjects Hannan Do fellows have inside tricks hints Peanut builders Stolt Nope Thompson Nothing better model ers havent come up Dont watch meet watch Dave Stott Fred Hall Chet Bukowski Mooney How shall put secrets available asking. probably worth just what pay Warner 1 wont fly loop 2mm Pirelli its too heavy 2 Plasticize nitrate dope 3 Make own bal sa wheels 4 Use Peck-Polymers nylon thrust bearing 5 Fly left 6 Learn spot thermals 7 Watch Clarence Mather 8 Steal Hannans secrets 9 Throw Peanut least 30 ft high before prop starts puts few turns wind pressure Peck With enough patience can build fly size model Nothing impossible Mather No secrets Ive told everything regarding building trimming published articles Martin Im too tricky divulge secrets Did Houdini tell Blackstone Does Namath tell Bradshaw told few white lies October 1975 Model Air plane News article tipped hand few issues Hangar Pilot deepest darkest secrets will never known Stark Build light pre-shrink tissue Clemens From th first stick pin plan constant effort should made keep weight down Light weight Peanuts result cumulative ef fects light wood use no needed careful assembly ensure QI 0 Hungorilla Dave Stotts term pent-up energy fully-wound rubber motorwhich sometimes can explode inside fuselage distressing results structure Artist Bill Miller has done entire series cartoons about thisbeast FAC Newsletter proper alignment careful covering light tissue Litecoat dope course good prop rubber selection impor tant too Dont assume prop best Build some means changing props too much difficulty Hannan Speaking props guys go about selecting untest ed Peanut Clemens Being strictly trial-and-error builder/flier Id probably choose prop based experience similar past model. using prop worked well before like let prop help con tribute needed nose ballast often use plastic lighter models long er noses such BD-4 know Ill have make lighter prop probably sheet balsa /32 ply blades hardwood spar Warner Id stick Sleek-Streek prop Right Bob Clemens outstanding modeler/ photographer two Peanutsa Waterman Mercury racer left Farman Moustique right Photo Michele Hallen Below Dr John Martin sometimes-zany editor Hangar Pilot newsletter pro moter annual Peanut Grand Prix until recently staged West Baden IN year Detroit Ml June it wouldnt perform well Id try Kaysun wouldnt Id try Peck-Polymers time model would probably destroyed Sleek Streeks usually work dont like wood props Too much work get just right snap Guess Im just serious enough Linstrum No comment use trial error unforgivable Props 13-in diameter seem work well Martin See article Hangar Pilot Author Doc uses sheet-wood-blade type prop 1 Select high-pitch prop very stable model configura tion rules out low-wingers short fuselage small-tail-area types latter craft use low-pitch prop 2 have ROG requirement club limits diameter 7-in Continued page 160 August1984 69 Scale Realism R/ C Aircraft Lightweight flexible super detailed pilot figures FF DurationlMeuser Continued page 157 1cm CG center gravity shift motor unwinds longer fuselage further motor peg CG greater chance stall under power stall glide portion flight shorten motor length either moving motor peg ward actually chopping off hank rubber youve defeated purpose having long fuselage first place George Perryman obviously faced same cascading sets problems designed gigantic Great Speckled Bird NFFS Dick Korda Open Rubber event Georges solution go gearing sytem no great shakes except George gave little unique Perryinan twist gear mechanism rear planenot front Does mean plane reverse gear George As photos show two mo tor hooks facing forward gearing mechanism immediately behind what appears ply plate metal bush ings small circular hole apparently stop-rod keep everything unraveling winding relieve undue pressure gears themselves double noseblock allows winding both motors front plane motor run snakey stuff unbelievably long cant rind notes exact length George no problem whatsoever unwound motors upsetting CG Very ingeniouswhich what have come expect George Perryman Radio Controlled Free Flight knew would get attention Actually has nothing radio controlled CIVILIAN BUSTS NOW AVAILABLE 1/3 1/4 1/5 S2OO shipping bust AT YOUR HOBBY SHOP Free Flight What does have Gil Morris Toothpicks designer use small radio transmitter mounted streamlined pod atop wing plane Gils mouse calls emits electronic beeps help him locate retrieve plane midst jungle-like growth sometimes have fly Gil reports good success device Im sure hed happy supply details about exact components sent SASE self-addressed stamped envelope Gilbert Morris 2810 Brackey Rd Columbus OH 43220 Nickels roll cause theyre round niftiest hints Ive encountered comes Jerry Skrjanc Mi cro-X man Ive always trouble mak ing small wheels sheet balsa lamina tions same just never seems can get finish up round Regard less carefully cut out some lose sanding process wheel takes its own whopperjawed characteristics late game next time youre faced wheel-making task sandwich wheel blank between two coins appropri ate size sand right down metal Neat huh pinch coins tightly enough easy task Free Flight ers theres just no way can wrong Speaking wheels its time wheel out let Bob Meuser return accustomed revered place next month hope Ill get meet along contest trail season Free Flight forever address Larry Kruse Box 1137 Liberal KS 67901 Photos drawings correspondence dealing Free Flight sub jects should continue sent 1 regular Contributing Editor Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oakland CA 94619 Peanut ParsylHannan Continued page 69 prop great duration sure looks like bleep Mather The plastic props available about good anyone can make Wil liams Brothers props cut down neces sary excellent Stark Start plastic prop get airplane trimmed Measure thrust prop rubber size works make wooden props per form better plastic Peck Past experience guide choose large diameter will clear ROG usually cutting down longer prop blade area general like use plastic props necessary will carve wooden prop obtain pitch area desire competition light model prefer high-pitch prop larger area blade Stott First try like worked similar model Thompson Carve 5-in block prop see what get can cut shaped twisted fiddled ways can nearly always get satisfactory prop out Hnnnnn Changing subject bit people regarded innovators What ideas feel may have con tributed Peanut modeling Martin The art winning very lit tle talent concept stand-off Pea nut Scale judges 50 feet away model Coined mottos Peanuts ever sic semper Peanutus Indoor everyone non semper indoorus Mather I cant think Stark I may have started trend toward fat-fuselage models Cou gar 1963 64 Stott Took HUNGoriIla out jungle made him what today Peck believe have made easier average person build Peanut Scale modelsby offering kits have parts understandable plans construction Also designed produced precision nylon thrust bearings used great modelers Thompson Very little Peanut Scale has caught due effortsbut rather due Dave Stott other modelers have made things go Perhaps have reintroduced feeling having fun some messing about rule book propos ailing cross-proposalling having fun Just because tend slap-dash slap-happy about things hardly makes right contest record abysmal shows poverty approach enjoy myself way what models get away pres sures might cause rather re sent see increasing Continued page 162 160 Model Aviation KNIGHTS AIR PILOT BUSTS AND FULL FIGURES Perfect oldest newest next creation give plane pilot FULL FIGURES 115 CIVILIANS1Z95 1/4 CIVILIANS1495 1/3 CIVILIAN81995 NEW RELEASES 1/5 WWII US NAVY 395 1/6 WWII US AAF 195 CIVILIAN8895 specify airplane helicopter S25S shipping figwe ORDER YOURS TODAY Wiliism M Hawke 7148 Iasting Light Way Columbia MD 21045 301 730-5596 NEW RELEASE 1/5 WWII us NAVY Kraft RIC Electronics PERSONAL SERVICE BY —-pMILT ERB SPECIAL LOW PRICESService charge repair andior checkup system four servos $2975 maximum Extra servos$25O Parts return shipment extra FREQUENCY CONVERSIONS-$2500 per system 50% off repair checkup SPECIALIZINGin competition systems frequency conversions FM equipment CUSTOM REPAIRSAll systems given personal attention test report comments careful cost control effort made return system likenew better operating condition HEATHKIT CUSTOMERSNew frequency conversions now available plugin systems$3500 per system AUTHORIZED FACTORY SERViCE FOR 1685 BeCkwith Dr Hudson OH 44236216 655-2278 pressures Im trying escape remembering takes kinds ac cept approach So Warner 1 Have invented several new words accompany breaking motor model Golly gee dingbunglers b murf c Gosh maybe shoulda stopped turn ago 2 Lomcevak Invented models long before tried real plane 3 Stomping model relieve stresses plane Mooney Well perhaps design landing gear uses music wire mounted external landing gear legs thus free flex absorb shock exactly innovations feel typically use plastic props almost everything probably put CG forward people mod els usually fly point Walts wife Carol interjected opinion Walts best innovations childrens names craft oriented Curtiss Ryan Douglas Martin Chrislea Bee Mooney Hannan That about does gang Any questions might wish asked Stark Yes about best Peanut models duration times 1 Heinkel 119 80 sec outdoors 60 sec indoors 2 Cessna Turbo Centurian 51 sec indoors plastic prop 3 Nakajima C6N Myrt 60 outdoors 55 sec indoors however difficult fly Martin 1 Does modeling have thing divorce 2 modeling good therapy out-of-touch reality 3 What sociogenic aspects aeromodeling world fraught complex schizo-effective pseudo-craftsmen Thompson The past year Ive busy harrassed hasnt time really concentrate ships endeavors flying mod els mainly concentration guy has two three ships knows well handles well situation go ing get results may build two three planes per year builds carefully superbly Clar ence Mather good example knows equipment wins easily Instead concentrating run around build models rather working what Ive got So poorly Im just too busy new next mountain properly use what already have said slap-happy Hannan rather heavy note seem have run out time Did have final questions Dave Stott $128000000 buried Grants tomb CL AerobaticslFanCher Continued page 70 will actually compete Reno education wish expand fund Stunt wisdom Inasmuch live just across Sierra Nevada Mountains Reno since good flying buddy Gary McClellan owns beautiful six-place Beechcraft Bonanza sometimes fly contests seemed logical should hop up Reno find out just what af fect mysterious forces nature actually going have Stunt ship Since hadnt really flown since Semi Finals day Chicopee Nats last year decided take day local fly ing field establish basic criteria compare Reno data aircraft used very competi tive conventional Stunters Garys OS 45F5R-powered 82 Nats qualifier based low-aspect-ratio Derringer wing own Celebration ST 46-powered derivative Excitation Cele bration 660-sq-in airplane 5975-in span aspect ratio 54 Weighed very accurate triplebeam balance scale weighed 523 ounces line length flights 66 ft 4 measured handle grip aircraft centerline flights made stock ST sprinkler-type venturi enlarged intake diameter 172 standard quantity fuel six ounces added flight NEW BUSY PEOPLE KITS CI TA ARIA STINSON 15 PROO ILL ILYINb MUULL $695 RUBBER POWER LOG $150 019 4424636 P ktMNOr 619 4698675 W Box 2406 -MA LA MESA CA 02041 FREE 1984 Catalog ol tools Hobbyist Miniature lathes Milling/drilling machines Jig & circular saws Styrofoam cutter VJt6all hobby products cc PO Box 07846 Columbus OH 432C 182 Model Aviation 1131 NW 45 Street Ft Liaderdale FL 33309 3051 491-6115 IENGINEERING THE LANDING GEAR PEOPLE Tired 1 kit landing gears dent lIt year Wggie preperty 0 & 0 Eogiaeerieg can solve veer prohiceis * Caste hailt te yanr needs & specs guareoteod lit * Strong & darahie withstand toughest Isedieg * II & 0 Engineering gear will work & keep year higgie llyiOg * In stock replacement gear tar meat papalar models Byron PlIts Christen Eagle CAP 21 Balsa USA J-3 CUB Air Toch Poweoc Eagle Nosee Big Slick Champ Citahna B & ft models Snapper Stieger cod Snapper Tea
Edition: Model Aviation - 1984/08
Page Numbers: 66, 67, 68, 69, 160, 162
THERE ARE MANY opinions regarding Peanuts ferent pathways success tiny Scale models fly Suppose could gather 10 well-known Peanut eers together discussion sub ject Geographical separations make difficult did next-best thing submitting series frequentlyasked questions answers appear fashion round-table conversation few small deletions have made avoid repetition remove some unneeded expletives may noticed sense humor important facet some Peanuteers personalities panel Bob Clemens real life photog rapher Eastman Kodak Rochester NY Scale model columnist Na tional Free Flight Society Journal Dave Linstrum Florida landscape architect editor VTO Free Flight column Model Airplane News Clarence Mather science teacher San Diego CA all-around builder eve rything microfilm models through Wakefields Dr John Martin Dentist editor Miami FL newsletter Hangar Pilot Walt Mooney Aeronautical engineer General Dynamics San Diego CA renowned Professor Peanuts Bob Peck Proprietor Peck-Polymers model aircraft company San Diego CA Tom Stark Retired Air Force officer St. Louis MO Experienced Scale Peanuts RC Dave Stott Professional model builder Sikorsky co-instigator original Peanut Scale concept Bridgeport CT Robert Sand Thompson School teacher co-instigator Peanut Scale idea two co-inventors Peanut Scale concept left Dave Stott holding larger-than-Peanut B-25 rubber-powered model during Flying Aces Club meet Scale models other co-inventor Bob Thompson left right-hand picturecaught action FAC Nats Tom Nallen right works rare Miles canard Both pictures Bill Noonan 66 Model Aviation Len uave Linstrum popuiar eaitor 0 tne VTU column Model Airplane News all sorts FF models including Pennyplane holding Right Sandy Bob Peck Peck-Polymers Photo snapped Ken Hannan during Peanut Scale postal contest L Walt Mooney genial Professor Peanuts prepares launch Found Centennial R Bill Warner holds Waco Peanut Hannan pics Roxbury CT Harold Bill Warner Teacher MA columnist Santa Monica CA Bill Hannan Gentlemen us familiar contest exploits modeling achievements backgrounds did start build models Peck Chicago IL about 1940 age six Stark My starting age too about 1934 first grade Mooney At age nine North ern California saw old Stinson straight winger fly over right wanted become airplane designer Models start direction Martin Philadelphia PA started. quite early before grade school think five years old 1932 first model called Mos quito recall no landing gear next model 10-cent Megow kit SE5 dad helped Thompson About 1944 some Maircraft solid models eight nine years old time havent stopped since Stott 1934 home under tutelage two older brothers Mather Lemont IL about 1934 Clemens Naperville IL Must have eight nine just before World War II started Clarence Mather just graduated Naperville High School time did meet him until 1945 ever father very fine modeler seeing him meticulously assemble Zipper 1941 early inspi rations Linstrum 1941 Omaha NE influ enced Olie Olson Herb Kothe CO Wright built Frank Zaic design Book Knowledge right page Warner Ravenna OH 1934 start ing cardboard stuff Hannan OK gentlemen could spend lot time early experiences purpose talk about Peanut Scale modeling Lets get right down specifics Materials example people strip own balsa Stott Yep Stark Yes Martin Only consent Serious ly use metal straightedge plastic cutting sheet single-edge razor blade Mather Usually I have found Pecks strips just good better Peck Thanks plug Clarence usually use regular strips except building strictly Indoor models Linstrum When single /46 square costs 10 cents Florida yes use Jim Jones superb stripper Fairgate metal rule Plexiglas #11 blade Clemens Only rarely like need odd size wing spar Mostly use commercially-cut Ao /42 Warner Yes 90% time Thompson Yes Ive forced Good wood hard come strips expensive now just doesnt pay Mooney Sometimes Only want particularly lightweight strips Usually select existing cut strips Unfortu nately often end up three fuselage longerons alike just different enough cause problem Hannan store balsa wood Warner In refrigerator really Just few boxes like everyone else re fuse state valuable Im considering keeping safe deposit box Thompson I have vast pile sheets attic keep straight rubberbands around some hardwood sheets top bottom pile Mooney I have about five big old Kodak film boxes stacked horizontally couple open-ended boxes stand ing vertically ease picking out sizes Trouble course anything shorter full length stock can re trieved dumping out entire box total quantity hand varies seems Im supplier some neighbor hood kids addition own sons approach look through available stock sale time enter hobby shop find exceptional stuff buy August 1984 67 figuring eventually will come handy After 40-some years building guess Ill keep awhile tually use Linstrum Mine Sig other card board boxes large 4-in -dia draw ing storage tubes metal caps Martin The average humidity Flori da about 78o just let stuff lay around use aged stuff isnt warped Clemens Horizontally Most large sheets several shelves uncovered open box strips Prime strips sheets Indoor use boxes covers make effort keep large sheets flat possible Peck In racksbalsa lays flattry keep warping Stark No special way Stott Flat cabinet Mather In large boxthe im portant thing sheets lie flat keep warping Hanuan How about motives people have philosophy modeling Stott Do can Mather I like own thing Rarely build anothers planseven know tops like competition also enjoy sport flying Peck I feel person has own reason building models some form art others like competi tion find relaxing other reasons personally build models way trying out ideas Modeling teaches thingshow reason under stand creativity use hands work tools materials basic engineering physics chemistry can help everyday life Clemens have philosophy must attitude toward modeling re gard pleasant challenging stimu lating fun pastime enjoy compet ing also enjoy flying alone talking myself try de-bug new Scale ship wring few seconds old Building flying small rubberpowered models brings simpler Left Author/moderator Bill Hannan CO2powered Peanut Scale Niauport monoplane Plc Linstrum Right Clarence Mather Morane-Saulnier Peanut Warren Shipp photo basic pleasures personal creativity skill once assort ment sticks sheets tissue some pieces sheet balsa now flying model airplane thats neat also en joy knowing other modelers seeing never-ending variety creations Linstrum approach build pret ty airplanes take best advantage ex isting rules Go optimum extremes Martin philosophy spend lot time flying building Thompson Build what interests What looks like interesting airplane yet has chance being passable flier rarely pick plane because looks like might good flier Like right now Im building Fiat CR 32 Interest ing plane mid-Thirties fighters lot airplane build rarely end up good fliers too details have add Im artistic enough merely draw have build adds up too often airbrush models fog color retard fading looks nice too adds weight Stark Choose subjects methods always challenging try pick subjects unusual Contest work ultimate test requiring lots practice preparation Never compete untested model Mooney Have fun youre hav ing fun quit Take up something else until have fun Warner Build what youre interested regardless whether its com petitive Never force yourself build fly dont feel like day night spirit upon Never put work model willing see wiped out crash lost thermal Build models no else has ever heard can coup Hannan Very well what about Pea nut models particular sepa rate philosophy Peanuts Linstrum Eat plenty Stott Eat em fly em whatever like Martin No Peanut should take week build Documentation should minimal Make em competi tive Have lots fun lots flying Warner Dont build em superscale takes fun out flying em Fly bleep out wind rain hail whatever superscale model may win contest spends its life box want go ape build regu lar-size Scale job Thompson Build what like few years ago did build first Lacey swept before son Since better builders fliers have taken over Ive just shut out. stomped So Ill go back what like ivian Curtiss export Falcon some such Peck I feel Peanuts interesting challenge due small size very rewarding find can per68 Model Aviation Tom Stark few lIC Scale models lie also has active classes Free Flight Scale models indoor outdoor including Peanuts form well larger models Peanuts have advantages low cost small construction area required can flown small fields gyms feel important since few larger areas left model flying Clemens Like have said like edible kind cant keep enjoying wanting feel strongly Peanuts flying Scale models should reflect both aspects appearance flight per formance can build such model win meets fine loophole hunting win contests puts totally wrong perspective event Im specifically referring ghost models may capable considerable dura tion Scale models wildest delusions builders Mooney Id say think flying scale fidelity should have equal value. moderation things superscale certainly ghost ships either Stark For performance choose clean airplanes retract gear retracted position long fuselage desirable Single-engine World War II bombers Golden Age racers long-distance air craft make good subjects Hannan Do fellows have inside tricks hints Peanut builders Stolt Nope Thompson Nothing better model ers havent come up Dont watch meet watch Dave Stott Fred Hall Chet Bukowski Mooney How shall put secrets available asking. probably worth just what pay Warner 1 wont fly loop 2mm Pirelli its too heavy 2 Plasticize nitrate dope 3 Make own bal sa wheels 4 Use Peck-Polymers nylon thrust bearing 5 Fly left 6 Learn spot thermals 7 Watch Clarence Mather 8 Steal Hannans secrets 9 Throw Peanut least 30 ft high before prop starts puts few turns wind pressure Peck With enough patience can build fly size model Nothing impossible Mather No secrets Ive told everything regarding building trimming published articles Martin Im too tricky divulge secrets Did Houdini tell Blackstone Does Namath tell Bradshaw told few white lies October 1975 Model Air plane News article tipped hand few issues Hangar Pilot deepest darkest secrets will never known Stark Build light pre-shrink tissue Clemens From th first stick pin plan constant effort should made keep weight down Light weight Peanuts result cumulative ef fects light wood use no needed careful assembly ensure QI 0 Hungorilla Dave Stotts term pent-up energy fully-wound rubber motorwhich sometimes can explode inside fuselage distressing results structure Artist Bill Miller has done entire series cartoons about thisbeast FAC Newsletter proper alignment careful covering light tissue Litecoat dope course good prop rubber selection impor tant too Dont assume prop best Build some means changing props too much difficulty Hannan Speaking props guys go about selecting untest ed Peanut Clemens Being strictly trial-and-error builder/flier Id probably choose prop based experience similar past model. using prop worked well before like let prop help con tribute needed nose ballast often use plastic lighter models long er noses such BD-4 know Ill have make lighter prop probably sheet balsa /32 ply blades hardwood spar Warner Id stick Sleek-Streek prop Right Bob Clemens outstanding modeler/ photographer two Peanutsa Waterman Mercury racer left Farman Moustique right Photo Michele Hallen Below Dr John Martin sometimes-zany editor Hangar Pilot newsletter pro moter annual Peanut Grand Prix until recently staged West Baden IN year Detroit Ml June it wouldnt perform well Id try Kaysun wouldnt Id try Peck-Polymers time model would probably destroyed Sleek Streeks usually work dont like wood props Too much work get just right snap Guess Im just serious enough Linstrum No comment use trial error unforgivable Props 13-in diameter seem work well Martin See article Hangar Pilot Author Doc uses sheet-wood-blade type prop 1 Select high-pitch prop very stable model configura tion rules out low-wingers short fuselage small-tail-area types latter craft use low-pitch prop 2 have ROG requirement club limits diameter 7-in Continued page 160 August1984 69 Scale Realism R/ C Aircraft Lightweight flexible super detailed pilot figures FF DurationlMeuser Continued page 157 1cm CG center gravity shift motor unwinds longer fuselage further motor peg CG greater chance stall under power stall glide portion flight shorten motor length either moving motor peg ward actually chopping off hank rubber youve defeated purpose having long fuselage first place George Perryman obviously faced same cascading sets problems designed gigantic Great Speckled Bird NFFS Dick Korda Open Rubber event Georges solution go gearing sytem no great shakes except George gave little unique Perryinan twist gear mechanism rear planenot front Does mean plane reverse gear George As photos show two mo tor hooks facing forward gearing mechanism immediately behind what appears ply plate metal bush ings small circular hole apparently stop-rod keep everything unraveling winding relieve undue pressure gears themselves double noseblock allows winding both motors front plane motor run snakey stuff unbelievably long cant rind notes exact length George no problem whatsoever unwound motors upsetting CG Very ingeniouswhich what have come expect George Perryman Radio Controlled Free Flight knew would get attention Actually has nothing radio controlled CIVILIAN BUSTS NOW AVAILABLE 1/3 1/4 1/5 S2OO shipping bust AT YOUR HOBBY SHOP Free Flight What does have Gil Morris Toothpicks designer use small radio transmitter mounted streamlined pod atop wing plane Gils mouse calls emits electronic beeps help him locate retrieve plane midst jungle-like growth sometimes have fly Gil reports good success device Im sure hed happy supply details about exact components sent SASE self-addressed stamped envelope Gilbert Morris 2810 Brackey Rd Columbus OH 43220 Nickels roll cause theyre round niftiest hints Ive encountered comes Jerry Skrjanc Mi cro-X man Ive always trouble mak ing small wheels sheet balsa lamina tions same just never seems can get finish up round Regard less carefully cut out some lose sanding process wheel takes its own whopperjawed characteristics late game next time youre faced wheel-making task sandwich wheel blank between two coins appropri ate size sand right down metal Neat huh pinch coins tightly enough easy task Free Flight ers theres just no way can wrong Speaking wheels its time wheel out let Bob Meuser return accustomed revered place next month hope Ill get meet along contest trail season Free Flight forever address Larry Kruse Box 1137 Liberal KS 67901 Photos drawings correspondence dealing Free Flight sub jects should continue sent 1 regular Contributing Editor Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oakland CA 94619 Peanut ParsylHannan Continued page 69 prop great duration sure looks like bleep Mather The plastic props available about good anyone can make Wil liams Brothers props cut down neces sary excellent Stark Start plastic prop get airplane trimmed Measure thrust prop rubber size works make wooden props per form better plastic Peck Past experience guide choose large diameter will clear ROG usually cutting down longer prop blade area general like use plastic props necessary will carve wooden prop obtain pitch area desire competition light model prefer high-pitch prop larger area blade Stott First try like worked similar model Thompson Carve 5-in block prop see what get can cut shaped twisted fiddled ways can nearly always get satisfactory prop out Hnnnnn Changing subject bit people regarded innovators What ideas feel may have con tributed Peanut modeling Martin The art winning very lit tle talent concept stand-off Pea nut Scale judges 50 feet away model Coined mottos Peanuts ever sic semper Peanutus Indoor everyone non semper indoorus Mather I cant think Stark I may have started trend toward fat-fuselage models Cou gar 1963 64 Stott Took HUNGoriIla out jungle made him what today Peck believe have made easier average person build Peanut Scale modelsby offering kits have parts understandable plans construction Also designed produced precision nylon thrust bearings used great modelers Thompson Very little Peanut Scale has caught due effortsbut rather due Dave Stott other modelers have made things go Perhaps have reintroduced feeling having fun some messing about rule book propos ailing cross-proposalling having fun Just because tend slap-dash slap-happy about things hardly makes right contest record abysmal shows poverty approach enjoy myself way what models get away pres sures might cause rather re sent see increasing Continued page 162 160 Model Aviation KNIGHTS AIR PILOT BUSTS AND FULL FIGURES Perfect oldest newest next creation give plane pilot FULL FIGURES 115 CIVILIANS1Z95 1/4 CIVILIANS1495 1/3 CIVILIAN81995 NEW RELEASES 1/5 WWII US NAVY 395 1/6 WWII US AAF 195 CIVILIAN8895 specify airplane helicopter S25S shipping figwe ORDER YOURS TODAY Wiliism M Hawke 7148 Iasting Light Way Columbia MD 21045 301 730-5596 NEW RELEASE 1/5 WWII us NAVY Kraft RIC Electronics PERSONAL SERVICE BY —-pMILT ERB SPECIAL LOW PRICESService charge repair andior checkup system four servos $2975 maximum Extra servos$25O Parts return shipment extra FREQUENCY CONVERSIONS-$2500 per system 50% off repair checkup SPECIALIZINGin competition systems frequency conversions FM equipment CUSTOM REPAIRSAll systems given personal attention test report comments careful cost control effort made return system likenew better operating condition HEATHKIT CUSTOMERSNew frequency conversions now available plugin systems$3500 per system AUTHORIZED FACTORY SERViCE FOR 1685 BeCkwith Dr Hudson OH 44236216 655-2278 pressures Im trying escape remembering takes kinds ac cept approach So Warner 1 Have invented several new words accompany breaking motor model Golly gee dingbunglers b murf c Gosh maybe shoulda stopped turn ago 2 Lomcevak Invented models long before tried real plane 3 Stomping model relieve stresses plane Mooney Well perhaps design landing gear uses music wire mounted external landing gear legs thus free flex absorb shock exactly innovations feel typically use plastic props almost everything probably put CG forward people mod els usually fly point Walts wife Carol interjected opinion Walts best innovations childrens names craft oriented Curtiss Ryan Douglas Martin Chrislea Bee Mooney Hannan That about does gang Any questions might wish asked Stark Yes about best Peanut models duration times 1 Heinkel 119 80 sec outdoors 60 sec indoors 2 Cessna Turbo Centurian 51 sec indoors plastic prop 3 Nakajima C6N Myrt 60 outdoors 55 sec indoors however difficult fly Martin 1 Does modeling have thing divorce 2 modeling good therapy out-of-touch reality 3 What sociogenic aspects aeromodeling world fraught complex schizo-effective pseudo-craftsmen Thompson The past year Ive busy harrassed hasnt time really concentrate ships endeavors flying mod els mainly concentration guy has two three ships knows well handles well situation go ing get results may build two three planes per year builds carefully superbly Clar ence Mather good example knows equipment wins easily Instead concentrating run around build models rather working what Ive got So poorly Im just too busy new next mountain properly use what already have said slap-happy Hannan rather heavy note seem have run out time Did have final questions Dave Stott $128000000 buried Grants tomb CL AerobaticslFanCher Continued page 70 will actually compete Reno education wish expand fund Stunt wisdom Inasmuch live just across Sierra Nevada Mountains Reno since good flying buddy Gary McClellan owns beautiful six-place Beechcraft Bonanza sometimes fly contests seemed logical should hop up Reno find out just what af fect mysterious forces nature actually going have Stunt ship Since hadnt really flown since Semi Finals day Chicopee Nats last year decided take day local fly ing field establish basic criteria compare Reno data aircraft used very competi tive conventional Stunters Garys OS 45F5R-powered 82 Nats qualifier based low-aspect-ratio Derringer wing own Celebration ST 46-powered derivative Excitation Cele bration 660-sq-in airplane 5975-in span aspect ratio 54 Weighed very accurate triplebeam balance scale weighed 523 ounces line length flights 66 ft 4 measured handle grip aircraft centerline flights made stock ST sprinkler-type venturi enlarged intake diameter 172 standard quantity fuel six ounces added flight NEW BUSY PEOPLE KITS CI TA ARIA STINSON 15 PROO ILL ILYINb MUULL $695 RUBBER POWER LOG $150 019 4424636 P ktMNOr 619 4698675 W Box 2406 -MA LA MESA CA 02041 FREE 1984 Catalog ol tools Hobbyist Miniature lathes Milling/drilling machines Jig & circular saws Styrofoam cutter VJt6all hobby products cc PO Box 07846 Columbus OH 432C 182 Model Aviation 1131 NW 45 Street Ft Liaderdale FL 33309 3051 491-6115 IENGINEERING THE LANDING GEAR PEOPLE Tired 1 kit landing gears dent lIt year Wggie preperty 0 & 0 Eogiaeerieg can solve veer prohiceis * Caste hailt te yanr needs & specs guareoteod lit * Strong & darahie withstand toughest Isedieg * II & 0 Engineering gear will work & keep year higgie llyiOg * In stock replacement gear tar meat papalar models Byron PlIts Christen Eagle CAP 21 Balsa USA J-3 CUB Air Toch Poweoc Eagle Nosee Big Slick Champ Citahna B & ft models Snapper Stieger cod Snapper Tea
Edition: Model Aviation - 1984/08
Page Numbers: 66, 67, 68, 69, 160, 162
THERE ARE MANY opinions regarding Peanuts ferent pathways success tiny Scale models fly Suppose could gather 10 well-known Peanut eers together discussion sub ject Geographical separations make difficult did next-best thing submitting series frequentlyasked questions answers appear fashion round-table conversation few small deletions have made avoid repetition remove some unneeded expletives may noticed sense humor important facet some Peanuteers personalities panel Bob Clemens real life photog rapher Eastman Kodak Rochester NY Scale model columnist Na tional Free Flight Society Journal Dave Linstrum Florida landscape architect editor VTO Free Flight column Model Airplane News Clarence Mather science teacher San Diego CA all-around builder eve rything microfilm models through Wakefields Dr John Martin Dentist editor Miami FL newsletter Hangar Pilot Walt Mooney Aeronautical engineer General Dynamics San Diego CA renowned Professor Peanuts Bob Peck Proprietor Peck-Polymers model aircraft company San Diego CA Tom Stark Retired Air Force officer St. Louis MO Experienced Scale Peanuts RC Dave Stott Professional model builder Sikorsky co-instigator original Peanut Scale concept Bridgeport CT Robert Sand Thompson School teacher co-instigator Peanut Scale idea two co-inventors Peanut Scale concept left Dave Stott holding larger-than-Peanut B-25 rubber-powered model during Flying Aces Club meet Scale models other co-inventor Bob Thompson left right-hand picturecaught action FAC Nats Tom Nallen right works rare Miles canard Both pictures Bill Noonan 66 Model Aviation Len uave Linstrum popuiar eaitor 0 tne VTU column Model Airplane News all sorts FF models including Pennyplane holding Right Sandy Bob Peck Peck-Polymers Photo snapped Ken Hannan during Peanut Scale postal contest L Walt Mooney genial Professor Peanuts prepares launch Found Centennial R Bill Warner holds Waco Peanut Hannan pics Roxbury CT Harold Bill Warner Teacher MA columnist Santa Monica CA Bill Hannan Gentlemen us familiar contest exploits modeling achievements backgrounds did start build models Peck Chicago IL about 1940 age six Stark My starting age too about 1934 first grade Mooney At age nine North ern California saw old Stinson straight winger fly over right wanted become airplane designer Models start direction Martin Philadelphia PA started. quite early before grade school think five years old 1932 first model called Mos quito recall no landing gear next model 10-cent Megow kit SE5 dad helped Thompson About 1944 some Maircraft solid models eight nine years old time havent stopped since Stott 1934 home under tutelage two older brothers Mather Lemont IL about 1934 Clemens Naperville IL Must have eight nine just before World War II started Clarence Mather just graduated Naperville High School time did meet him until 1945 ever father very fine modeler seeing him meticulously assemble Zipper 1941 early inspi rations Linstrum 1941 Omaha NE influ enced Olie Olson Herb Kothe CO Wright built Frank Zaic design Book Knowledge right page Warner Ravenna OH 1934 start ing cardboard stuff Hannan OK gentlemen could spend lot time early experiences purpose talk about Peanut Scale modeling Lets get right down specifics Materials example people strip own balsa Stott Yep Stark Yes Martin Only consent Serious ly use metal straightedge plastic cutting sheet single-edge razor blade Mather Usually I have found Pecks strips just good better Peck Thanks plug Clarence usually use regular strips except building strictly Indoor models Linstrum When single /46 square costs 10 cents Florida yes use Jim Jones superb stripper Fairgate metal rule Plexiglas #11 blade Clemens Only rarely like need odd size wing spar Mostly use commercially-cut Ao /42 Warner Yes 90% time Thompson Yes Ive forced Good wood hard come strips expensive now just doesnt pay Mooney Sometimes Only want particularly lightweight strips Usually select existing cut strips Unfortu nately often end up three fuselage longerons alike just different enough cause problem Hannan store balsa wood Warner In refrigerator really Just few boxes like everyone else re fuse state valuable Im considering keeping safe deposit box Thompson I have vast pile sheets attic keep straight rubberbands around some hardwood sheets top bottom pile Mooney I have about five big old Kodak film boxes stacked horizontally couple open-ended boxes stand ing vertically ease picking out sizes Trouble course anything shorter full length stock can re trieved dumping out entire box total quantity hand varies seems Im supplier some neighbor hood kids addition own sons approach look through available stock sale time enter hobby shop find exceptional stuff buy August 1984 67 figuring eventually will come handy After 40-some years building guess Ill keep awhile tually use Linstrum Mine Sig other card board boxes large 4-in -dia draw ing storage tubes metal caps Martin The average humidity Flori da about 78o just let stuff lay around use aged stuff isnt warped Clemens Horizontally Most large sheets several shelves uncovered open box strips Prime strips sheets Indoor use boxes covers make effort keep large sheets flat possible Peck In racksbalsa lays flattry keep warping Stark No special way Stott Flat cabinet Mather In large boxthe im portant thing sheets lie flat keep warping Hanuan How about motives people have philosophy modeling Stott Do can Mather I like own thing Rarely build anothers planseven know tops like competition also enjoy sport flying Peck I feel person has own reason building models some form art others like competi tion find relaxing other reasons personally build models way trying out ideas Modeling teaches thingshow reason under stand creativity use hands work tools materials basic engineering physics chemistry can help everyday life Clemens have philosophy must attitude toward modeling re gard pleasant challenging stimu lating fun pastime enjoy compet ing also enjoy flying alone talking myself try de-bug new Scale ship wring few seconds old Building flying small rubberpowered models brings simpler Left Author/moderator Bill Hannan CO2powered Peanut Scale Niauport monoplane Plc Linstrum Right Clarence Mather Morane-Saulnier Peanut Warren Shipp photo basic pleasures personal creativity skill once assort ment sticks sheets tissue some pieces sheet balsa now flying model airplane thats neat also en joy knowing other modelers seeing never-ending variety creations Linstrum approach build pret ty airplanes take best advantage ex isting rules Go optimum extremes Martin philosophy spend lot time flying building Thompson Build what interests What looks like interesting airplane yet has chance being passable flier rarely pick plane because looks like might good flier Like right now Im building Fiat CR 32 Interest ing plane mid-Thirties fighters lot airplane build rarely end up good fliers too details have add Im artistic enough merely draw have build adds up too often airbrush models fog color retard fading looks nice too adds weight Stark Choose subjects methods always challenging try pick subjects unusual Contest work ultimate test requiring lots practice preparation Never compete untested model Mooney Have fun youre hav ing fun quit Take up something else until have fun Warner Build what youre interested regardless whether its com petitive Never force yourself build fly dont feel like day night spirit upon Never put work model willing see wiped out crash lost thermal Build models no else has ever heard can coup Hannan Very well what about Pea nut models particular sepa rate philosophy Peanuts Linstrum Eat plenty Stott Eat em fly em whatever like Martin No Peanut should take week build Documentation should minimal Make em competi tive Have lots fun lots flying Warner Dont build em superscale takes fun out flying em Fly bleep out wind rain hail whatever superscale model may win contest spends its life box want go ape build regu lar-size Scale job Thompson Build what like few years ago did build first Lacey swept before son Since better builders fliers have taken over Ive just shut out. stomped So Ill go back what like ivian Curtiss export Falcon some such Peck I feel Peanuts interesting challenge due small size very rewarding find can per68 Model Aviation Tom Stark few lIC Scale models lie also has active classes Free Flight Scale models indoor outdoor including Peanuts form well larger models Peanuts have advantages low cost small construction area required can flown small fields gyms feel important since few larger areas left model flying Clemens Like have said like edible kind cant keep enjoying wanting feel strongly Peanuts flying Scale models should reflect both aspects appearance flight per formance can build such model win meets fine loophole hunting win contests puts totally wrong perspective event Im specifically referring ghost models may capable considerable dura tion Scale models wildest delusions builders Mooney Id say think flying scale fidelity should have equal value. moderation things superscale certainly ghost ships either Stark For performance choose clean airplanes retract gear retracted position long fuselage desirable Single-engine World War II bombers Golden Age racers long-distance air craft make good subjects Hannan Do fellows have inside tricks hints Peanut builders Stolt Nope Thompson Nothing better model ers havent come up Dont watch meet watch Dave Stott Fred Hall Chet Bukowski Mooney How shall put secrets available asking. probably worth just what pay Warner 1 wont fly loop 2mm Pirelli its too heavy 2 Plasticize nitrate dope 3 Make own bal sa wheels 4 Use Peck-Polymers nylon thrust bearing 5 Fly left 6 Learn spot thermals 7 Watch Clarence Mather 8 Steal Hannans secrets 9 Throw Peanut least 30 ft high before prop starts puts few turns wind pressure Peck With enough patience can build fly size model Nothing impossible Mather No secrets Ive told everything regarding building trimming published articles Martin Im too tricky divulge secrets Did Houdini tell Blackstone Does Namath tell Bradshaw told few white lies October 1975 Model Air plane News article tipped hand few issues Hangar Pilot deepest darkest secrets will never known Stark Build light pre-shrink tissue Clemens From th first stick pin plan constant effort should made keep weight down Light weight Peanuts result cumulative ef fects light wood use no needed careful assembly ensure QI 0 Hungorilla Dave Stotts term pent-up energy fully-wound rubber motorwhich sometimes can explode inside fuselage distressing results structure Artist Bill Miller has done entire series cartoons about thisbeast FAC Newsletter proper alignment careful covering light tissue Litecoat dope course good prop rubber selection impor tant too Dont assume prop best Build some means changing props too much difficulty Hannan Speaking props guys go about selecting untest ed Peanut Clemens Being strictly trial-and-error builder/flier Id probably choose prop based experience similar past model. using prop worked well before like let prop help con tribute needed nose ballast often use plastic lighter models long er noses such BD-4 know Ill have make lighter prop probably sheet balsa /32 ply blades hardwood spar Warner Id stick Sleek-Streek prop Right Bob Clemens outstanding modeler/ photographer two Peanutsa Waterman Mercury racer left Farman Moustique right Photo Michele Hallen Below Dr John Martin sometimes-zany editor Hangar Pilot newsletter pro moter annual Peanut Grand Prix until recently staged West Baden IN year Detroit Ml June it wouldnt perform well Id try Kaysun wouldnt Id try Peck-Polymers time model would probably destroyed Sleek Streeks usually work dont like wood props Too much work get just right snap Guess Im just serious enough Linstrum No comment use trial error unforgivable Props 13-in diameter seem work well Martin See article Hangar Pilot Author Doc uses sheet-wood-blade type prop 1 Select high-pitch prop very stable model configura tion rules out low-wingers short fuselage small-tail-area types latter craft use low-pitch prop 2 have ROG requirement club limits diameter 7-in Continued page 160 August1984 69 Scale Realism R/ C Aircraft Lightweight flexible super detailed pilot figures FF DurationlMeuser Continued page 157 1cm CG center gravity shift motor unwinds longer fuselage further motor peg CG greater chance stall under power stall glide portion flight shorten motor length either moving motor peg ward actually chopping off hank rubber youve defeated purpose having long fuselage first place George Perryman obviously faced same cascading sets problems designed gigantic Great Speckled Bird NFFS Dick Korda Open Rubber event Georges solution go gearing sytem no great shakes except George gave little unique Perryinan twist gear mechanism rear planenot front Does mean plane reverse gear George As photos show two mo tor hooks facing forward gearing mechanism immediately behind what appears ply plate metal bush ings small circular hole apparently stop-rod keep everything unraveling winding relieve undue pressure gears themselves double noseblock allows winding both motors front plane motor run snakey stuff unbelievably long cant rind notes exact length George no problem whatsoever unwound motors upsetting CG Very ingeniouswhich what have come expect George Perryman Radio Controlled Free Flight knew would get attention Actually has nothing radio controlled CIVILIAN BUSTS NOW AVAILABLE 1/3 1/4 1/5 S2OO shipping bust AT YOUR HOBBY SHOP Free Flight What does have Gil Morris Toothpicks designer use small radio transmitter mounted streamlined pod atop wing plane Gils mouse calls emits electronic beeps help him locate retrieve plane midst jungle-like growth sometimes have fly Gil reports good success device Im sure hed happy supply details about exact components sent SASE self-addressed stamped envelope Gilbert Morris 2810 Brackey Rd Columbus OH 43220 Nickels roll cause theyre round niftiest hints Ive encountered comes Jerry Skrjanc Mi cro-X man Ive always trouble mak ing small wheels sheet balsa lamina tions same just never seems can get finish up round Regard less carefully cut out some lose sanding process wheel takes its own whopperjawed characteristics late game next time youre faced wheel-making task sandwich wheel blank between two coins appropri ate size sand right down metal Neat huh pinch coins tightly enough easy task Free Flight ers theres just no way can wrong Speaking wheels its time wheel out let Bob Meuser return accustomed revered place next month hope Ill get meet along contest trail season Free Flight forever address Larry Kruse Box 1137 Liberal KS 67901 Photos drawings correspondence dealing Free Flight sub jects should continue sent 1 regular Contributing Editor Bob Meuser 4200 Gregory St Oakland CA 94619 Peanut ParsylHannan Continued page 69 prop great duration sure looks like bleep Mather The plastic props available about good anyone can make Wil liams Brothers props cut down neces sary excellent Stark Start plastic prop get airplane trimmed Measure thrust prop rubber size works make wooden props per form better plastic Peck Past experience guide choose large diameter will clear ROG usually cutting down longer prop blade area general like use plastic props necessary will carve wooden prop obtain pitch area desire competition light model prefer high-pitch prop larger area blade Stott First try like worked similar model Thompson Carve 5-in block prop see what get can cut shaped twisted fiddled ways can nearly always get satisfactory prop out Hnnnnn Changing subject bit people regarded innovators What ideas feel may have con tributed Peanut modeling Martin The art winning very lit tle talent concept stand-off Pea nut Scale judges 50 feet away model Coined mottos Peanuts ever sic semper Peanutus Indoor everyone non semper indoorus Mather I cant think Stark I may have started trend toward fat-fuselage models Cou gar 1963 64 Stott Took HUNGoriIla out jungle made him what today Peck believe have made easier average person build Peanut Scale modelsby offering kits have parts understandable plans construction Also designed produced precision nylon thrust bearings used great modelers Thompson Very little Peanut Scale has caught due effortsbut rather due Dave Stott other modelers have made things go Perhaps have reintroduced feeling having fun some messing about rule book propos ailing cross-proposalling having fun Just because tend slap-dash slap-happy about things hardly makes right contest record abysmal shows poverty approach enjoy myself way what models get away pres sures might cause rather re sent see increasing Continued page 162 160 Model Aviation KNIGHTS AIR PILOT BUSTS AND FULL FIGURES Perfect oldest newest next creation give plane pilot FULL FIGURES 115 CIVILIANS1Z95 1/4 CIVILIANS1495 1/3 CIVILIAN81995 NEW RELEASES 1/5 WWII US NAVY 395 1/6 WWII US AAF 195 CIVILIAN8895 specify airplane helicopter 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Invented models long before tried real plane 3 Stomping model relieve stresses plane Mooney Well perhaps design landing gear uses music wire mounted external landing gear legs thus free flex absorb shock exactly innovations feel typically use plastic props almost everything probably put CG forward people mod els usually fly point Walts wife Carol interjected opinion Walts best innovations childrens names craft oriented Curtiss Ryan Douglas Martin Chrislea Bee Mooney Hannan That about does gang Any questions might wish asked Stark Yes about best Peanut models duration times 1 Heinkel 119 80 sec outdoors 60 sec indoors 2 Cessna Turbo Centurian 51 sec indoors plastic prop 3 Nakajima C6N Myrt 60 outdoors 55 sec indoors however difficult fly Martin 1 Does modeling have thing divorce 2 modeling good therapy out-of-touch reality 3 What sociogenic aspects aeromodeling world fraught complex schizo-effective pseudo-craftsmen Thompson The past year Ive busy harrassed hasnt time really concentrate ships endeavors flying mod els mainly concentration guy has two three ships knows well handles well situation go ing get results may build two three planes per year builds carefully superbly Clar ence Mather good example knows equipment wins easily Instead concentrating run around build models rather working what Ive got So poorly Im just too busy new next mountain properly use what already have said slap-happy Hannan rather heavy note seem have run out time Did have final questions Dave Stott $128000000 buried Grants tomb CL AerobaticslFanCher Continued page 70 will actually compete Reno education wish expand fund Stunt wisdom Inasmuch live just across Sierra Nevada Mountains Reno since good flying buddy Gary McClellan owns beautiful six-place Beechcraft Bonanza sometimes fly contests seemed logical should hop up Reno find out just what af fect mysterious forces nature actually going have Stunt ship Since hadnt really flown since Semi Finals day Chicopee Nats last year decided take 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