RADIO CONTROL AEROBATICS early September write US FAIIF3A team already Japan 1995 World Championships What will soon duly recorded analyzed published enjoyed agonized over consigned dusty stacks Pattern history Editors note Full report next month tale pulled same stacks partly story other World Champs 30 summers past mostly story Pattern modeler Ralph C Doc Brooke Some noted recent selection AMA Model Aviation Hall Fame few others still active may have flown him Most will read likely unfamiliar name situation deserves correction Doc Brooke original small prematurely balding man light-bulb grin streaked across RC Aerobatics world early 960s like impish comet short brilliant competitive career spanned formative years sport flew RC escapements pulse rudder Galloping Ghost multichannel reeds analog proportional modern digital proportional equipment competed won nationally internationally wildly different systems space few short years days state art changed almost monthly rough modern equivalent feat would flying Mode 1 year switching Mode II next flying Single Stick thirdwhile remaining top competitor Born Kansas City Missouri just after market crash 1929 young Ralph dedicated modeler age six wellknown midwestern free flight competitor early teens branched out control line modeling late 1940s move Seattle provided change 100 Model Aviation h Brooke age 14 receives William Jeffers Trophy 1944 Doc congratulated movie star Jimmy Stewart after demo Mid-West Model Airplane Meet Omaha Nebraska flight late-i 960s full-scale airshow Palm Beach May 9 1965 Ralph makes first RC arrested landings aboard USS Enterprise Jr prove wasnt fluke did twice Ralph Brooke early unidentified original multi circa 1960-61 Radio looks like Orbit reed set PRECISION PROP NUTS AND HUBS Now greater choice quality Tru-Turn products 3 sizes PROP NUTS ranging 5/8 7/8 diameter 2 shapes available stock RIO engine thread sizes 5 sizes PROP HUBS ranging 1to 2 diameter 2 shapes new PROP NUTS PROP HUBS addition existing line precision aluminum spinners range 1-1/2 6 over 90 shapes sizes blade configurations new Tru-Turn PROP HUB line complimented extensive line over 70 adapter kits Tru-Turn makes adapter production RIO engine market have adapter problem .help phone call away.See hobby dealer call us direct. Made US PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS Romco Manufacturing Inc QUALITY ATILITY T LOOKS TY PO Box 836 South Houston Texas 77587 713/943-1867 January1996 101 Ralph Brooke wife Jean Ralphs Crusader after winning World title second time Ljungbyhed Sweden 1965 Ralph accepting third-place trophy 1964 Dallas Nats Sweden Official US Navy photo Performance Products Vibra-Sport soft mount four strokes Looks solid simple Details text INTw~ahaI59afl NFW lADE scenery interests active participant Northwest free flight control line scenes until college put modeling hold After witnessing then-rare successful flight Seattle RC pioneer Gene Weaver 1957 model bug bit again Ralph got RC still dental student University Washington accounts natural very quick learner Like students time funds limited especially since Ralph met married wife Jean 1955 first two children would arrive 1960 Serious Pattern contesting wait until after graduation start private dental practice 1959 local regional wins began piling up shortly afterward 1962 Doc still relatively unknown national RC scene surprise third-place finish D Expert Nationals landed him spot last man US FAI team bound 1963 Worlds Genk Belgium third RC World Championships held fellow team members Jerry Nelson Ed Kazmirski team manager Bob Dunham contest got off rocky start US teamdue airline mixup model boxes wound up Frankfurt instead Paris team go get way back Belgium via Paris Doc managed get separated rest team twice once getting off train wrong stop second time getting lost missing chartered team bus Once Genk contest got underway gusty winds first day Nelson Kazmirski early flights marred engine problems Ralph excellent flight strong winds put up highest score day following day followed up another consistent effort good days second-highest total Nelson Kazmirski also did well Going final day another good flight would wrap up both individual team titles Jerry Ed managed best flights meet Ralph lost crucial spin US team title Ralph locked flyoff individual crown Fritz Bosch Germany Bosch won coin toss elected fly second Ralph put up nearly flawless burner sweat out Bosch also put up strong flight points totaled previously unknown dentist Seattle new World Champion substantial margin Repeating feat 1965 Worlds Ljungbyhed Sweden would easy days rules didnt give reigning champ automatic ticket back Ralph would have requalify 1964 US Nats pressure would enormous no ever repeated Doc came Nats favorite having won very first Tournament Champions Oklahoma City previous week Flying own-design Crusader Merco 61 new Orbit digital proportional radio gear series engine problems again managed third place-disappointing again good enough final team slot teammates Cliff Weirick Zel Ritchie Sweden Fritz Bosch German team again looked strong practice once meet started main competition proved young Cliff Weirick Cliff Teuwen Belgium Merco again running well Doc flying consistently third place after Round moved up second after Round Two third final flight best nearly perfect effort earned second-highest raw score meet final results Zel Ritchie sixth Cliff Weirick third US team first Ralph Brooke first repeat World Champion competitive standpoint subsequent years would never again kind Ralph complications lifelong battle diabetes would take toll gradually eroding sight coordination other triumphs perhaps important ones Crusader went become seminal design Pattern historythe first let style Pattern airplanes light terrifically strong geodesic egg-crate construction all-balsa built-up-and-sheeted wing popularized Ralph model would become model modern honeycomb foam wings founded RAMs RC Symposium 1964 show evolved Northwest Radio Control Model Expositionnow largest hobby/trade shows country May 1965 Doc became first last date RC modeler successfully complete launch arrested recovery moving floating scale model aircraft carrier aid US Navy feat accomplished stiff winds underway Lake Washington near Seattle time stood RC world its collective ear Tournament Champions resurrected Walt Schroder Bill Bennett moved Las Vegas Doc moved first invited contestant judge Competition remained first love continued compete first Pattern later Scale until failing sight ill health made impossible 1962 1982 served AMA District XI RC Contest Board member Along way club officer times over active contest director judge local club flight instructor World Champion tireless helper innumerable beginners 1 970s own health already declining organized benefit model airshows raised thousands dollars Northwest Kidney Center life well-lived came early end June 6 1989 Its impossible tell what else Ralph Brooke might have accomplished hed time What did give aeromodeling best After 30 years luster trophies has faded scrapbook clippings have yellowed Docs name example legacy worth remembering good folks behind Performance Products Unlimited Dave Janell von Linsowe pleased announce Vibra-Sport soft mount four-stroke engines mount combines successful Vibra-Damp beam mount Performance Products Aluminum T-Beam create complete mounting system popular 120-size sport aerobatic aircraft could call no-brainer requires no nose ring will fit 120/150 four-strokes See dealer order direct Performance Products 810 631-4894 youre check out nifty 7/s-inch carbon-fiber wing tubes Model Aviation 4
Edition: Model Aviation - 1996/01
Page Numbers: 100, 101, 102
Edition: Model Aviation - 1996/01
Page Numbers: 100, 101, 102
RADIO CONTROL AEROBATICS early September write US FAIIF3A team already Japan 1995 World Championships What will soon duly recorded analyzed published enjoyed agonized over consigned dusty stacks Pattern history Editors note Full report next month tale pulled same stacks partly story other World Champs 30 summers past mostly story Pattern modeler Ralph C Doc Brooke Some noted recent selection AMA Model Aviation Hall Fame few others still active may have flown him Most will read likely unfamiliar name situation deserves correction Doc Brooke original small prematurely balding man light-bulb grin streaked across RC Aerobatics world early 960s like impish comet short brilliant competitive career spanned formative years sport flew RC escapements pulse rudder Galloping Ghost multichannel reeds analog proportional modern digital proportional equipment competed won nationally internationally wildly different systems space few short years days state art changed almost monthly rough modern equivalent feat would flying Mode 1 year switching Mode II next flying Single Stick thirdwhile remaining top competitor Born Kansas City Missouri just after market crash 1929 young Ralph dedicated modeler age six wellknown midwestern free flight competitor early teens branched out control line modeling late 1940s move Seattle provided change 100 Model Aviation h Brooke age 14 receives William Jeffers Trophy 1944 Doc congratulated movie star Jimmy Stewart after demo Mid-West Model Airplane Meet Omaha Nebraska flight late-i 960s full-scale airshow Palm Beach May 9 1965 Ralph makes first RC arrested landings aboard USS Enterprise Jr prove wasnt fluke did twice Ralph Brooke early unidentified original multi circa 1960-61 Radio looks like Orbit reed set PRECISION PROP NUTS AND HUBS Now greater choice quality Tru-Turn products 3 sizes PROP NUTS ranging 5/8 7/8 diameter 2 shapes available stock RIO engine thread sizes 5 sizes PROP HUBS ranging 1to 2 diameter 2 shapes new PROP NUTS PROP HUBS addition existing line precision aluminum spinners range 1-1/2 6 over 90 shapes sizes blade configurations new Tru-Turn PROP HUB line complimented extensive line over 70 adapter kits Tru-Turn makes adapter production RIO engine market have adapter problem .help phone call away.See hobby dealer call us direct. Made US PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS Romco Manufacturing Inc QUALITY ATILITY T LOOKS TY PO Box 836 South Houston Texas 77587 713/943-1867 January1996 101 Ralph Brooke wife Jean Ralphs Crusader after winning World title second time Ljungbyhed Sweden 1965 Ralph accepting third-place trophy 1964 Dallas Nats Sweden Official US Navy photo Performance Products Vibra-Sport soft mount four strokes Looks solid simple Details text INTw~ahaI59afl NFW lADE scenery interests active participant Northwest free flight control line scenes until college put modeling hold After witnessing then-rare successful flight Seattle RC pioneer Gene Weaver 1957 model bug bit again Ralph got RC still dental student University Washington accounts natural very quick learner Like students time funds limited especially since Ralph met married wife Jean 1955 first two children would arrive 1960 Serious Pattern contesting wait until after graduation start private dental practice 1959 local regional wins began piling up shortly afterward 1962 Doc still relatively unknown national RC scene surprise third-place finish D Expert Nationals landed him spot last man US FAI team bound 1963 Worlds Genk Belgium third RC World Championships held fellow team members Jerry Nelson Ed Kazmirski team manager Bob Dunham contest got off rocky start US teamdue airline mixup model boxes wound up Frankfurt instead Paris team go get way back Belgium via Paris Doc managed get separated rest team twice once getting off train wrong stop second time getting lost missing chartered team bus Once Genk contest got underway gusty winds first day Nelson Kazmirski early flights marred engine problems Ralph excellent flight strong winds put up highest score day following day followed up another consistent effort good days second-highest total Nelson Kazmirski also did well Going final day another good flight would wrap up both individual team titles Jerry Ed managed best flights meet Ralph lost crucial spin US team title Ralph locked flyoff individual crown Fritz Bosch Germany Bosch won coin toss elected fly second Ralph put up nearly flawless burner sweat out Bosch also put up strong flight points totaled previously unknown dentist Seattle new World Champion substantial margin Repeating feat 1965 Worlds Ljungbyhed Sweden would easy days rules didnt give reigning champ automatic ticket back Ralph would have requalify 1964 US Nats pressure would enormous no ever repeated Doc came Nats favorite having won very first Tournament Champions Oklahoma City previous week Flying own-design Crusader Merco 61 new Orbit digital proportional radio gear series engine problems again managed third place-disappointing again good enough final team slot teammates Cliff Weirick Zel Ritchie Sweden Fritz Bosch German team again looked strong practice once meet started main competition proved young Cliff Weirick Cliff Teuwen Belgium Merco again running well Doc flying consistently third place after Round moved up second after Round Two third final flight best nearly perfect effort earned second-highest raw score meet final results Zel Ritchie sixth Cliff Weirick third US team first Ralph Brooke first repeat World Champion competitive standpoint subsequent years would never again kind Ralph complications lifelong battle diabetes would take toll gradually eroding sight coordination other triumphs perhaps important ones Crusader went become seminal design Pattern historythe first let style Pattern airplanes light terrifically strong geodesic egg-crate construction all-balsa built-up-and-sheeted wing popularized Ralph model would become model modern honeycomb foam wings founded RAMs RC Symposium 1964 show evolved Northwest Radio Control Model Expositionnow largest hobby/trade shows country May 1965 Doc became first last date RC modeler successfully complete launch arrested recovery moving floating scale model aircraft carrier aid US Navy feat accomplished stiff winds underway Lake Washington near Seattle time stood RC world its collective ear Tournament Champions resurrected Walt Schroder Bill Bennett moved Las Vegas Doc moved first invited contestant judge Competition remained first love continued compete first Pattern later Scale until failing sight ill health made impossible 1962 1982 served AMA District XI RC Contest Board member Along way club officer times over active contest director judge local club flight instructor World Champion tireless helper innumerable beginners 1 970s own health already declining organized benefit model airshows raised thousands dollars Northwest Kidney Center life well-lived came early end June 6 1989 Its impossible tell what else Ralph Brooke might have accomplished hed time What did give aeromodeling best After 30 years luster trophies has faded scrapbook clippings have yellowed Docs name example legacy worth remembering good folks behind Performance Products Unlimited Dave Janell von Linsowe pleased announce Vibra-Sport soft mount four-stroke engines mount combines successful Vibra-Damp beam mount Performance Products Aluminum T-Beam create complete mounting system popular 120-size sport aerobatic aircraft could call no-brainer requires no nose ring will fit 120/150 four-strokes See dealer order direct Performance Products 810 631-4894 youre check out nifty 7/s-inch carbon-fiber wing tubes Model Aviation 4
Edition: Model Aviation - 1996/01
Page Numbers: 100, 101, 102
RADIO CONTROL AEROBATICS early September write US FAIIF3A team already Japan 1995 World Championships What will soon duly recorded analyzed published enjoyed agonized over consigned dusty stacks Pattern history Editors note Full report next month tale pulled same stacks partly story other World Champs 30 summers past mostly story Pattern modeler Ralph C Doc Brooke Some noted recent selection AMA Model Aviation Hall Fame few others still active may have flown him Most will read likely unfamiliar name situation deserves correction Doc Brooke original small prematurely balding man light-bulb grin streaked across RC Aerobatics world early 960s like impish comet short brilliant competitive career spanned formative years sport flew RC escapements pulse rudder Galloping Ghost multichannel reeds analog proportional modern digital proportional equipment competed won nationally internationally wildly different systems space few short years days state art changed almost monthly rough modern equivalent feat would flying Mode 1 year switching Mode II next flying Single Stick thirdwhile remaining top competitor Born Kansas City Missouri just after market crash 1929 young Ralph dedicated modeler age six wellknown midwestern free flight competitor early teens branched out control line modeling late 1940s move Seattle provided change 100 Model Aviation h Brooke age 14 receives William Jeffers Trophy 1944 Doc congratulated movie star Jimmy Stewart after demo Mid-West Model Airplane Meet Omaha Nebraska flight late-i 960s full-scale airshow Palm Beach May 9 1965 Ralph makes first RC arrested landings aboard USS Enterprise Jr prove wasnt fluke did twice Ralph Brooke early unidentified original multi circa 1960-61 Radio looks like Orbit reed set PRECISION PROP NUTS AND HUBS Now greater choice quality Tru-Turn products 3 sizes PROP NUTS ranging 5/8 7/8 diameter 2 shapes available stock RIO engine thread sizes 5 sizes PROP HUBS ranging 1to 2 diameter 2 shapes new PROP NUTS PROP HUBS addition existing line precision aluminum spinners range 1-1/2 6 over 90 shapes sizes blade configurations new Tru-Turn PROP HUB line complimented extensive line over 70 adapter kits Tru-Turn makes adapter production RIO engine market have adapter problem .help phone call away.See hobby dealer call us direct. Made US PRECISION MODEL PRODUCTS Romco Manufacturing Inc QUALITY ATILITY T LOOKS TY PO Box 836 South Houston Texas 77587 713/943-1867 January1996 101 Ralph Brooke wife Jean Ralphs Crusader after winning World title second time Ljungbyhed Sweden 1965 Ralph accepting third-place trophy 1964 Dallas Nats Sweden Official US Navy photo Performance Products Vibra-Sport soft mount four strokes Looks solid simple Details text INTw~ahaI59afl NFW lADE scenery interests active participant Northwest free flight control line scenes until college put modeling hold After witnessing then-rare successful flight Seattle RC pioneer Gene Weaver 1957 model bug bit again Ralph got RC still dental student University Washington accounts natural very quick learner Like students time funds limited especially since Ralph met married wife Jean 1955 first two children would arrive 1960 Serious Pattern contesting wait until after graduation start private dental practice 1959 local regional wins began piling up shortly afterward 1962 Doc still relatively unknown national RC scene surprise third-place finish D Expert Nationals landed him spot last man US FAI team bound 1963 Worlds Genk Belgium third RC World Championships held fellow team members Jerry Nelson Ed Kazmirski team manager Bob Dunham contest got off rocky start US teamdue airline mixup model boxes wound up Frankfurt instead Paris team go get way back Belgium via Paris Doc managed get separated rest team twice once getting off train wrong stop second time getting lost missing chartered team bus Once Genk contest got underway gusty winds first day Nelson Kazmirski early flights marred engine problems Ralph excellent flight strong winds put up highest score day following day followed up another consistent effort good days second-highest total Nelson Kazmirski also did well Going final day another good flight would wrap up both individual team titles Jerry Ed managed best flights meet Ralph lost crucial spin US team title Ralph locked flyoff individual crown Fritz Bosch Germany Bosch won coin toss elected fly second Ralph put up nearly flawless burner sweat out Bosch also put up strong flight points totaled previously unknown dentist Seattle new World Champion substantial margin Repeating feat 1965 Worlds Ljungbyhed Sweden would easy days rules didnt give reigning champ automatic ticket back Ralph would have requalify 1964 US Nats pressure would enormous no ever repeated Doc came Nats favorite having won very first Tournament Champions Oklahoma City previous week Flying own-design Crusader Merco 61 new Orbit digital proportional radio gear series engine problems again managed third place-disappointing again good enough final team slot teammates Cliff Weirick Zel Ritchie Sweden Fritz Bosch German team again looked strong practice once meet started main competition proved young Cliff Weirick Cliff Teuwen Belgium Merco again running well Doc flying consistently third place after Round moved up second after Round Two third final flight best nearly perfect effort earned second-highest raw score meet final results Zel Ritchie sixth Cliff Weirick third US team first Ralph Brooke first repeat World Champion competitive standpoint subsequent years would never again kind Ralph complications lifelong battle diabetes would take toll gradually eroding sight coordination other triumphs perhaps important ones Crusader went become seminal design Pattern historythe first let style Pattern airplanes light terrifically strong geodesic egg-crate construction all-balsa built-up-and-sheeted wing popularized Ralph model would become model modern honeycomb foam wings founded RAMs RC Symposium 1964 show evolved Northwest Radio Control Model Expositionnow largest hobby/trade shows country May 1965 Doc became first last date RC modeler successfully complete launch arrested recovery moving floating scale model aircraft carrier aid US Navy feat accomplished stiff winds underway Lake Washington near Seattle time stood RC world its collective ear Tournament Champions resurrected Walt Schroder Bill Bennett moved Las Vegas Doc moved first invited contestant judge Competition remained first love continued compete first Pattern later Scale until failing sight ill health made impossible 1962 1982 served AMA District XI RC Contest Board member Along way club officer times over active contest director judge local club flight instructor World Champion tireless helper innumerable beginners 1 970s own health already declining organized benefit model airshows raised thousands dollars Northwest Kidney Center life well-lived came early end June 6 1989 Its impossible tell what else Ralph Brooke might have accomplished hed time What did give aeromodeling best After 30 years luster trophies has faded scrapbook clippings have yellowed Docs name example legacy worth remembering good folks behind Performance Products Unlimited Dave Janell von Linsowe pleased announce Vibra-Sport soft mount four-stroke engines mount combines successful Vibra-Damp beam mount Performance Products Aluminum T-Beam create complete mounting system popular 120-size sport aerobatic aircraft could call no-brainer requires no nose ring will fit 120/150 four-strokes See dealer order direct Performance Products 810 631-4894 youre check out nifty 7/s-inch carbon-fiber wing tubes Model Aviation 4
