Radio Control: Giants

RADIO CONTROL GIANTS IN THE APRIL ISSUE Model Aviation noted given up designing quarter-scale model Der Cricket allmetal home-built biplane reason gave was apprehensive about model all-flying tail surfacesvertical horizontal tail feathers hinged rudder elevators Thanks Gun Gustafson Littleton Colorado thoroughly disabused idea Gus sent photo scratch-built Y5-scale Mercury Chic model twoplace parasol monoplane manufactured Mercury Aircraft Corporation Hammondsport New York 1934 no fixed tail surfaces best part exerciseGus says airplane flies hands off Ive included photo Gus sent proof-positive RC models full-scale counterparts fly well allflying tails full NACA cowling has fabricated model will installed test flights finished Gus notes very few people have ever seen Mercury Im inclined agree its beautifully obscure subject Speaking unfinished model designs lot around interesting ones attempt Rose Parakeet Before WW II Rose Company turned out dainty little one-place biplane relatively short production run After war rights design purchased organization southwestern Colorado modified accept thenavailable engines renamed Skyote retained overall appearance original Parrakeet fully aerobatic Again few Skyotes produced before owner company passed away counting factory approval scale accuracy Parrakeet/Skyote drawings too late Although its Giant RC model Ive included photo Control Line Parrakeet built Frank Beatty Granite City Illinois give idea what handsome aircraft Yet another aborted design quarter-scale version Port Victoria PV 8 tiny British WW biplane fighter carried single Lewis machine gun designed intercept high-flying German zeppelins friend Tony Paul built model aircraft drawings small 19 engine was needed motivate model skillfully flown Tony proved almost totally unstable nasty tendency roll almost soon wheels left ground Guess cant win em have plenty drawings day Ill get around building models include quarter-scale version Tilbury-Fundy Flash 30s pylon racer models small enough 15 power quarter-scale drawing prototype British Comper Swift OS Gemini engine dead-ringer originals Cherub engine Curtiss XP-3 1 30s Army fighter never entered production featured both inline radial engines different times Acroduster beautiful aerobatic home-built biplane elliptical wings Wee Bee candidate smallest man-carrying tricycle-gear airplane SOsthe pilot flew 18-foot-span aircraft prone position Jerry Bates has plenty warbird plans available Giant Scale builders next docket beautiful set construction drawings /5-scale 84-inch-span Brewster Buffalo Jerry allows has solved problems associated Buffalos landing gearthe struts retract wings wheels housed fuselage full-scale Buffalo checkered career US Navy also used combat Netherlands East Indies Although wasnt too successful fighter barrel-fuselage airplane makes nifty Scale model hands Mr Bates 102 Glenwood St Mobile AL 36606 Ive seen preliminary drawings sure good-looking Jerry also has 1/6-scale Grumman F6F Hellcat works computer span will 80 inches model will have balsa plywood construction As produce giant piles balsa dust building Giant Scale model theres something important remember Once us get engine mounted radio installed make preliminary check center gravity CG location model Its easier shift things around yet-to-be-completed fuselage achieve proper longitudinal balance model Unfortunately theres task thats often forgottenchecking lateral balance model model should checked wing heaviness after its assembled best way cure problem would lighten heavy wing thats always possible assure stable model adding bit balancing weight light wing darn good idea Covering painting model adds spanwise weight rather evenly its good idea get things balanced before finishing process trust having mostsuccessful flying season 4August1996 83 Gus Gustafsons 1934 Mercury Chica beautifully obscure subject Full-scale model feature all-flying tail surfaces Frank Beattys handsome Control Line version Rose Parakeet biplane 1930s design resurfaced after WW II Skyote