RECENTLY chance work movie blow up three Bell Long Rang ers Since turned out pretty fair lot fun doing thought Id pass along some experience movie Universal production titled Mid night Run stars Robert DeNiro Charles Grodin movie will released early summer 88 contains some excel lent helicopter chase sequences ending spec tacular crash subsequent explosion guess does pretty excited meet chief pilot full-size Jet Ranger name Ross Rey nolds best Ive ever seen Ross has flying helicopters since right after Word War II Some things youve proba bly seen him Blue Thunder Uncomnwn Valor Ross isnt moonlighting chief pilot Los Angeles Fire Department particular movie sequence Ross perform some spectacular sequences chasing car down road lot work down river canyon around base bridge con sistently hovered down around bridge minimum distance between main rotor blades bridge structure amazed sta bility controllability full-sized Ranger footage shot movie just brief trib ute Ross superb piloting abilities see film think youll agree part film necessary tie-up shot showing miniature copter hitting sheer rock wail exploding impact Flying kind shot always makes little nervous because explosives tightness shot shot tight means models have pretty detailed have put same place time since cameras will locked framed expected point impact No cameraman going stick around close explosion Im off just little resulting film footage may have nose tail boom missing because its outside frame As can imagine pressure double blue-sky blow cam eraman has scene framed little wide panning follow model Early planning decided use Kalt Long Ranger fuselage Gorham Model Pro ducts GMP Cobra mechanics lucky get three Kalt fuselages Circus Hob bies including epoxy no-gel-coat mod els Circus hard get stuff its just youre doing film work theres never enough time need duplicates need now usually dont have time wait Larrys working movies again forthcoming Midnight Run built three Long Rangers shown above test flight Note flybarless rotor head no-smoke exhaust Also note small scale details like antennas keen eye will detect scaled actors open door model below Paint job super also model chop per uses GMP Cobra mechanics Kalt fuselage Futaba PCM radio OS 61 Hell-engIne Hi robo scale-type muffler Scene near Globe AZ filming site As Yosemite Sam always says Im gonna blow smithereenies Well heres movie special effects guys set up Larrys Long Rangers just event Bag fuselage compartment L contains explosives Primercord tail boom R also helped add total de struction models although mechanics radios survived Models loaded powder gasoline primer cord potassium nitrate As safety measure used failsafe explosives arming switch set pull switch open lithe RC failed June 1988 51 Radio Cono Helicopters Larry Jolly 5501 W Como Santa Ana CA 92703 Larry cut top yoke off GMP Pro head Blades ballasted 190 grams dampening set up very tight Flybarless head necessary movie realism Kalt fuselage very high quality cure mechanics inside liked looks comes complete mounting hardware fuselage proved quite close wood wire plastic will need Se-Ctrnd nn naQe 135 RC Old-Timers/Mathews Continued page 49 clety will sponsor Nostalgia Gas Free Flight events SAM Champs will AA A B C Ignition classes details send SASE MJ Whittemore Jr RR #1 Box 296 New Palestine IN 46163 Mark calendars now largest best SAM Champs ever Reno NV June 19-22 1989 site may also used AMA Nats following week As have tended Nats air races Stead AFB can attest likely finest site West meet may finest modeling event decade Youll find pleasant weather resort set ting excellent facilities What could ask Remember S&H Green Stamps such tale modeler wife sent him grocery store pick up few items As checked out checker asked save stamps Whereupon replied Nab build model airplanes RC Pylon Racing/Hager Continued page 50 Cant victorious race say dont have latest engine trick prop No should have positive attitude efforts Racers have ability win heat although other factorscompletely unrelated may affect winning attitude pilots consistently win have attitude built everything have worked long hard alsotans merely go through motions participat ing buddies have no real intentions ing Number circuit district na flon can Yes So go next race give tryput smile have good time important don rforger winning attitude youve leaving home until now noted poem subject sums up very well Racers Lament think beaten you think dare dont like win think cant Its almost cinch wont think youll lose youre lost Out real world find Success begins fellows will Its state mind think youre outclassed Youve got think high rise Youve got sure yourself before can ever win Next month Racers past surface years Phoenix air races See races responding advertisers mention read about ModelAviation RC Helicopters/Jolly Continued page 51 scale almost free blemishes prob lem tail boom didnt fit fu selage too well joint however wasnt bad easily faired little Bondo two trusty sidekicks Greg Ford Alex Bereczky helped major portion building Dennis Brandt handled mask ing spraying three-color paint scheme mechanics chose GMPs Cobras autorotation Pro heads really like Co bra usually use film work have found very quick build easy fit scale fuselage powerful reli able particular Cobras used 05 61 Hel power coupled Hirobo scale-type muffler quiet engine get exhaust out cabin either building thinking build ing Kalt Long Rangers might think about using Hirobo muffler fuse lage pretty narrow much room muffler course could use rearexhaust engine solve problems Anyway Cobra/OS/Hirobo muffler combo lay right Kalts fuselage perfect fit Lately Ive using PCM FM pulse-code modulationRMcM radios movie work especially scenes copter must blown up feel safer fall-safe function set move servo arm away detona tion switch Rangers used Futaba PCMs have very pleased per formance Since Rangers close scale Continued page 138 June 1988 135 ELECTRICNQAdEi& Buzz skies search RED BARON DSCs neat little stand-way-off scale model famous WA/I fighter take-offs aerobatics touch goes 40 span 276 sq area beauly 6 7 cells Simple quick build precut fuselage sides toil feathers combo includes DSC HYPERTHRUST 075 motor fused switch harness tamiya connector pro peller adaptor propeller kit i rj 30 amperes meter determine current draw motor/propeller combination 6 PAVEY675 TOWER LANE YSTEMS WEST CHESTER PA 193W ORPORATION RC Helicopters/Jolly Continued page 135 possible go flybarless rotor head Ive flying GMPs heads flybarless several years now have excellent re suits modifying following way center yoke bandsawed off top machined portion head head assembled normally except damp ening must tight possible Rang ers ran GMP blades cut rotor diameter 58 blade ballasted center-of-gravity-corrected weight 190 grams Set up way ships superb fly Because use no mixer headjust two links direct swashplateI must cut down collective cyclic throws can quite excessive try heads flybarless just make sure dampening tight throws reduced head gets normal pitch changes youll really like flying flybarless Also 190-gram blades autorotations dream fact night flying Rangers just set down ground Being cute hit throttle hold pulled up collective head has much inertia Helicopter lifted higher head settled slowly back ground thought sure would run out blade speed bend bird up honest soft touchdown achieved So finished three Rangers time shipped ahead Globe AZ film ing would take place arrived two days later uncrated beauties finding minimal damage flicted air freight kind winced found Out would flying elevation 4000 ft Believe nothing gets director excited watch ing flying bomb winding up wanting lift off loaded 13 lb Cobra/ Rangers flew excellentlyeven altitude Franidy after building three Helicopters shipping location span month flying anticlimactic director picked out rock face locked off two high-speed cam eras panned two hit spot first time Id used real explosives like potassium nitrate primer cord weird have machine strike wall see flash observe total disintegration fuselage mechanics falling ground As loaded up after destroying third ship thinking grateful could de pend various model companies provide quality equipment capable doing job safely Anyway see Midnight Run look small part model aviation played give believable explosion New GMP machine coming Gorham Model Products has just given permission nounce new aerobatic Helicopter Leg end have flown prototype can tell Legend quite capable dar ing acrobatic maneuvers GMP will showing ship Toledo made show saw public display first time Anyway Legend still cooperative ef fort between Gorham Hirobo lot Gorham Legend features flybar less rotor head toothed-belt tail rotor drive ex tremely light weight John says de mostly two new space age materials called aluminum steel As soon can get some pictures Ill give preview BCNU Wellesley/Pelly-Fry Continued page 60 thin three-ply flaps split type hinged rear spar three points side flaps lightly braced fore aft along inside span make rigid Small cutaways under wing accommodate will give snug fit flap bellcrank fitted coincide servo location Using servo flap merely conveni ent rather technical necessity Its easy harmonize two servos adjust ments devises method constructing wing out ers same main inner wing ailerons having recessed hinge Set up port starboard wings spe cially made jigs making provision three degrees washout cut sand soft balsa wing tips shape glue place Finish covering outers nylon Before constructing ailerons provide access aileron bellcranks using Du Bro quarter-turn latches As shown drawing aileron consists basically number balsa ribs half-round lead ing edges aluminum tube spar located fat point rib section trailing FOAM WING CORES muuumuu.uuuuuumummu.uuuuuuuuuuu.uuummm U U I PRECISION MADE EXPANDED BEAD POLYSTYRENE REPLACEMENT WING & STAB CORES FOR ALLI POPULAR RIC AIRCRAFT OVER 250 DIFFERENT WINGS IMMEDIATE DELI VERE SO IF YOU HAVE U AFAVORITEBIRD THAT NEEDS WING CALL OR WRITE USI I- SEND $350 FOR OESCRIPTIVB PRODUCT CATALOGj I U U U U II U U U U U uuuemmuuumumuUUuuuuuummmuuum..~... /VG MFG WING MPG P0 BOX 33 CRYSTAL LAKE IL 60014 p p pg S 0 AMERICAN JR OM RIDGE CAMPBELL T RITE DUBRO EASY BUILT MODELS FLYLINE FOX BERG DUBOIS LOW K&B MICRO X OS MAX RA PECK-POLYMER ECT MODELS SEAGLEN STERUNG IVAN SUPER TIGER INDER PLITE LER WILLIAMSS PRODUCTS RS ESTES MODEL ROCKETS Send Si Caeh Cheek ow Stamp eur 32 page tabloid size DISCOUNT Catalog 900 jItosttions ove 700 Kits choose Io, MAILOROER PHONEORDER IN STORE PENN VALLEY HORNY CENTER 837 1 Main St LansdalmVa 19445 138 Model Aviation REPRODUCTION PARTS FOR ANTIQUE IGNITION ENGINES o SPARK PLUGSa TANK TOPSa POINTS o TIMERSo GASKETSoTANKS o NEEDLE VALVESa SCREW SETSo COILS o EXHAUST STACKSe MANUALSa PROP DRIVES OVER 1000 ITEMS FOR MORE THAN 60 ENGINES SEND $4 FOR CATALOG #10 IN US & CANADA INTERNATIONAL $7 air mail MICRO MODEL ENGINEERING 1301 W LAFAYETTE ST STURGIS MI 49091 LL Fu sToo ng P0 Box 95 Champaign lLDiou
Edition: Model Aviation - 1988/06
Page Numbers: 51, 135, 138
RECENTLY chance work movie blow up three Bell Long Rang ers Since turned out pretty fair lot fun doing thought Id pass along some experience movie Universal production titled Mid night Run stars Robert DeNiro Charles Grodin movie will released early summer 88 contains some excel lent helicopter chase sequences ending spec tacular crash subsequent explosion guess does pretty excited meet chief pilot full-size Jet Ranger name Ross Rey nolds best Ive ever seen Ross has flying helicopters since right after Word War II Some things youve proba bly seen him Blue Thunder Uncomnwn Valor Ross isnt moonlighting chief pilot Los Angeles Fire Department particular movie sequence Ross perform some spectacular sequences chasing car down road lot work down river canyon around base bridge con sistently hovered down around bridge minimum distance between main rotor blades bridge structure amazed sta bility controllability full-sized Ranger footage shot movie just brief trib ute Ross superb piloting abilities see film think youll agree part film necessary tie-up shot showing miniature copter hitting sheer rock wail exploding impact Flying kind shot always makes little nervous because explosives tightness shot shot tight means models have pretty detailed have put same place time since cameras will locked framed expected point impact No cameraman going stick around close explosion Im off just little resulting film footage may have nose tail boom missing because its outside frame As can imagine pressure double blue-sky blow cam eraman has scene framed little wide panning follow model Early planning decided use Kalt Long Ranger fuselage Gorham Model Pro ducts GMP Cobra mechanics lucky get three Kalt fuselages Circus Hob bies including epoxy no-gel-coat mod els Circus hard get stuff its just youre doing film work theres never enough time need duplicates need now usually dont have time wait Larrys working movies again forthcoming Midnight Run built three Long Rangers shown above test flight Note flybarless rotor head no-smoke exhaust Also note small scale details like antennas keen eye will detect scaled actors open door model below Paint job super also model chop per uses GMP Cobra mechanics Kalt fuselage Futaba PCM radio OS 61 Hell-engIne Hi robo scale-type muffler Scene near Globe AZ filming site As Yosemite Sam always says Im gonna blow smithereenies Well heres movie special effects guys set up Larrys Long Rangers just event Bag fuselage compartment L contains explosives Primercord tail boom R also helped add total de struction models although mechanics radios survived Models loaded powder gasoline primer cord potassium nitrate As safety measure used failsafe explosives arming switch set pull switch open lithe RC failed June 1988 51 Radio Cono Helicopters Larry Jolly 5501 W Como Santa Ana CA 92703 Larry cut top yoke off GMP Pro head Blades ballasted 190 grams dampening set up very tight Flybarless head necessary movie realism Kalt fuselage very high quality cure mechanics inside liked looks comes complete mounting hardware fuselage proved quite close wood wire plastic will need Se-Ctrnd nn naQe 135 RC Old-Timers/Mathews Continued page 49 clety will sponsor Nostalgia Gas Free Flight events SAM Champs will AA A B C Ignition classes details send SASE MJ Whittemore Jr RR #1 Box 296 New Palestine IN 46163 Mark calendars now largest best SAM Champs ever Reno NV June 19-22 1989 site may also used AMA Nats following week As have tended Nats air races Stead AFB can attest likely finest site West meet may finest modeling event decade Youll find pleasant weather resort set ting excellent facilities What could ask Remember S&H Green Stamps such tale modeler wife sent him grocery store pick up few items As checked out checker asked save stamps Whereupon replied Nab build model airplanes RC Pylon Racing/Hager Continued page 50 Cant victorious race say dont have latest engine trick prop No should have positive attitude efforts Racers have ability win heat although other factorscompletely unrelated may affect winning attitude pilots consistently win have attitude built everything have worked long hard alsotans merely go through motions participat ing buddies have no real intentions ing Number circuit district na flon can Yes So go next race give tryput smile have good time important don rforger winning attitude youve leaving home until now noted poem subject sums up very well Racers Lament think beaten you think dare dont like win think cant Its almost cinch wont think youll lose youre lost Out real world find Success begins fellows will Its state mind think youre outclassed Youve got think high rise Youve got sure yourself before can ever win Next month Racers past surface years Phoenix air races See races responding advertisers mention read about ModelAviation RC Helicopters/Jolly Continued page 51 scale almost free blemishes prob lem tail boom didnt fit fu selage too well joint however wasnt bad easily faired little Bondo two trusty sidekicks Greg Ford Alex Bereczky helped major portion building Dennis Brandt handled mask ing spraying three-color paint scheme mechanics chose GMPs Cobras autorotation Pro heads really like Co bra usually use film work have found very quick build easy fit scale fuselage powerful reli able particular Cobras used 05 61 Hel power coupled Hirobo scale-type muffler quiet engine get exhaust out cabin either building thinking build ing Kalt Long Rangers might think about using Hirobo muffler fuse lage pretty narrow much room muffler course could use rearexhaust engine solve problems Anyway Cobra/OS/Hirobo muffler combo lay right Kalts fuselage perfect fit Lately Ive using PCM FM pulse-code modulationRMcM radios movie work especially scenes copter must blown up feel safer fall-safe function set move servo arm away detona tion switch Rangers used Futaba PCMs have very pleased per formance Since Rangers close scale Continued page 138 June 1988 135 ELECTRICNQAdEi& Buzz skies search RED BARON DSCs neat little stand-way-off scale model famous WA/I fighter take-offs aerobatics touch goes 40 span 276 sq area beauly 6 7 cells Simple quick build precut fuselage sides toil feathers combo includes DSC HYPERTHRUST 075 motor fused switch harness tamiya connector pro peller adaptor propeller kit i rj 30 amperes meter determine current draw motor/propeller combination 6 PAVEY675 TOWER LANE YSTEMS WEST CHESTER PA 193W ORPORATION RC Helicopters/Jolly Continued page 135 possible go flybarless rotor head Ive flying GMPs heads flybarless several years now have excellent re suits modifying following way center yoke bandsawed off top machined portion head head assembled normally except damp ening must tight possible Rang ers ran GMP blades cut rotor diameter 58 blade ballasted center-of-gravity-corrected weight 190 grams Set up way ships superb fly Because use no mixer headjust two links direct swashplateI must cut down collective cyclic throws can quite excessive try heads flybarless just make sure dampening tight throws reduced head gets normal pitch changes youll really like flying flybarless Also 190-gram blades autorotations dream fact night flying Rangers just set down ground Being cute hit throttle hold pulled up collective head has much inertia Helicopter lifted higher head settled slowly back ground thought sure would run out blade speed bend bird up honest soft touchdown achieved So finished three Rangers time shipped ahead Globe AZ film ing would take place arrived two days later uncrated beauties finding minimal damage flicted air freight kind winced found Out would flying elevation 4000 ft Believe nothing gets director excited watch ing flying bomb winding up wanting lift off loaded 13 lb Cobra/ Rangers flew excellentlyeven altitude Franidy after building three Helicopters shipping location span month flying anticlimactic director picked out rock face locked off two high-speed cam eras panned two hit spot first time Id used real explosives like potassium nitrate primer cord weird have machine strike wall see flash observe total disintegration fuselage mechanics falling ground As loaded up after destroying third ship thinking grateful could de pend various model companies provide quality equipment capable doing job safely Anyway see Midnight Run look small part model aviation played give believable explosion New GMP machine coming Gorham Model Products has just given permission nounce new aerobatic Helicopter Leg end have flown prototype can tell Legend quite capable dar ing acrobatic maneuvers GMP will showing ship Toledo made show saw public display first time Anyway Legend still cooperative ef fort between Gorham Hirobo lot Gorham Legend features flybar less rotor head toothed-belt tail rotor drive ex tremely light weight John says de mostly two new space age materials called aluminum steel As soon can get some pictures Ill give preview BCNU Wellesley/Pelly-Fry Continued page 60 thin three-ply flaps split type hinged rear spar three points side flaps lightly braced fore aft along inside span make rigid Small cutaways under wing accommodate will give snug fit flap bellcrank fitted coincide servo location Using servo flap merely conveni ent rather technical necessity Its easy harmonize two servos adjust ments devises method constructing wing out ers same main inner wing ailerons having recessed hinge Set up port starboard wings spe cially made jigs making provision three degrees washout cut sand soft balsa wing tips shape glue place Finish covering outers nylon Before constructing ailerons provide access aileron bellcranks using Du Bro quarter-turn latches As shown drawing aileron consists basically number balsa ribs half-round lead ing edges aluminum tube spar located fat point rib section trailing FOAM WING CORES muuumuu.uuuuuumummu.uuuuuuuuuuu.uuummm U U I PRECISION MADE EXPANDED BEAD POLYSTYRENE REPLACEMENT WING & STAB CORES FOR ALLI POPULAR RIC AIRCRAFT OVER 250 DIFFERENT WINGS IMMEDIATE DELI VERE SO IF YOU HAVE U AFAVORITEBIRD THAT NEEDS WING CALL OR WRITE USI I- SEND $350 FOR OESCRIPTIVB PRODUCT CATALOGj I U U U U II U U U U U uuuemmuuumumuUUuuuuuummmuuum..~... /VG MFG WING MPG P0 BOX 33 CRYSTAL LAKE IL 60014 p p pg S 0 AMERICAN JR OM RIDGE CAMPBELL T RITE DUBRO EASY BUILT MODELS FLYLINE FOX BERG DUBOIS LOW K&B MICRO X OS MAX RA PECK-POLYMER ECT MODELS SEAGLEN STERUNG IVAN SUPER TIGER INDER PLITE LER WILLIAMSS PRODUCTS RS ESTES MODEL ROCKETS Send Si Caeh Cheek ow Stamp eur 32 page tabloid size DISCOUNT Catalog 900 jItosttions ove 700 Kits choose Io, MAILOROER PHONEORDER IN STORE PENN VALLEY HORNY CENTER 837 1 Main St LansdalmVa 19445 138 Model Aviation REPRODUCTION PARTS FOR ANTIQUE IGNITION ENGINES o SPARK PLUGSa TANK TOPSa POINTS o TIMERSo GASKETSoTANKS o NEEDLE VALVESa SCREW SETSo COILS o EXHAUST STACKSe MANUALSa PROP DRIVES OVER 1000 ITEMS FOR MORE THAN 60 ENGINES SEND $4 FOR CATALOG #10 IN US & CANADA INTERNATIONAL $7 air mail MICRO MODEL ENGINEERING 1301 W LAFAYETTE ST STURGIS MI 49091 LL Fu sToo ng P0 Box 95 Champaign lLDiou
Edition: Model Aviation - 1988/06
Page Numbers: 51, 135, 138
RECENTLY chance work movie blow up three Bell Long Rang ers Since turned out pretty fair lot fun doing thought Id pass along some experience movie Universal production titled Mid night Run stars Robert DeNiro Charles Grodin movie will released early summer 88 contains some excel lent helicopter chase sequences ending spec tacular crash subsequent explosion guess does pretty excited meet chief pilot full-size Jet Ranger name Ross Rey nolds best Ive ever seen Ross has flying helicopters since right after Word War II Some things youve proba bly seen him Blue Thunder Uncomnwn Valor Ross isnt moonlighting chief pilot Los Angeles Fire Department particular movie sequence Ross perform some spectacular sequences chasing car down road lot work down river canyon around base bridge con sistently hovered down around bridge minimum distance between main rotor blades bridge structure amazed sta bility controllability full-sized Ranger footage shot movie just brief trib ute Ross superb piloting abilities see film think youll agree part film necessary tie-up shot showing miniature copter hitting sheer rock wail exploding impact Flying kind shot always makes little nervous because explosives tightness shot shot tight means models have pretty detailed have put same place time since cameras will locked framed expected point impact No cameraman going stick around close explosion Im off just little resulting film footage may have nose tail boom missing because its outside frame As can imagine pressure double blue-sky blow cam eraman has scene framed little wide panning follow model Early planning decided use Kalt Long Ranger fuselage Gorham Model Pro ducts GMP Cobra mechanics lucky get three Kalt fuselages Circus Hob bies including epoxy no-gel-coat mod els Circus hard get stuff its just youre doing film work theres never enough time need duplicates need now usually dont have time wait Larrys working movies again forthcoming Midnight Run built three Long Rangers shown above test flight Note flybarless rotor head no-smoke exhaust Also note small scale details like antennas keen eye will detect scaled actors open door model below Paint job super also model chop per uses GMP Cobra mechanics Kalt fuselage Futaba PCM radio OS 61 Hell-engIne Hi robo scale-type muffler Scene near Globe AZ filming site As Yosemite Sam always says Im gonna blow smithereenies Well heres movie special effects guys set up Larrys Long Rangers just event Bag fuselage compartment L contains explosives Primercord tail boom R also helped add total de struction models although mechanics radios survived Models loaded powder gasoline primer cord potassium nitrate As safety measure used failsafe explosives arming switch set pull switch open lithe RC failed June 1988 51 Radio Cono Helicopters Larry Jolly 5501 W Como Santa Ana CA 92703 Larry cut top yoke off GMP Pro head Blades ballasted 190 grams dampening set up very tight Flybarless head necessary movie realism Kalt fuselage very high quality cure mechanics inside liked looks comes complete mounting hardware fuselage proved quite close wood wire plastic will need Se-Ctrnd nn naQe 135 RC Old-Timers/Mathews Continued page 49 clety will sponsor Nostalgia Gas Free Flight events SAM Champs will AA A B C Ignition classes details send SASE MJ Whittemore Jr RR #1 Box 296 New Palestine IN 46163 Mark calendars now largest best SAM Champs ever Reno NV June 19-22 1989 site may also used AMA Nats following week As have tended Nats air races Stead AFB can attest likely finest site West meet may finest modeling event decade Youll find pleasant weather resort set ting excellent facilities What could ask Remember S&H Green Stamps such tale modeler wife sent him grocery store pick up few items As checked out checker asked save stamps Whereupon replied Nab build model airplanes RC Pylon Racing/Hager Continued page 50 Cant victorious race say dont have latest engine trick prop No should have positive attitude efforts Racers have ability win heat although other factorscompletely unrelated may affect winning attitude pilots consistently win have attitude built everything have worked long hard alsotans merely go through motions participat ing buddies have no real intentions ing Number circuit district na flon can Yes So go next race give tryput smile have good time important don rforger winning attitude youve leaving home until now noted poem subject sums up very well Racers Lament think beaten you think dare dont like win think cant Its almost cinch wont think youll lose youre lost Out real world find Success begins fellows will Its state mind think youre outclassed Youve got think high rise Youve got sure yourself before can ever win Next month Racers past surface years Phoenix air races See races responding advertisers mention read about ModelAviation RC Helicopters/Jolly Continued page 51 scale almost free blemishes prob lem tail boom didnt fit fu selage too well joint however wasnt bad easily faired little Bondo two trusty sidekicks Greg Ford Alex Bereczky helped major portion building Dennis Brandt handled mask ing spraying three-color paint scheme mechanics chose GMPs Cobras autorotation Pro heads really like Co bra usually use film work have found very quick build easy fit scale fuselage powerful reli able particular Cobras used 05 61 Hel power coupled Hirobo scale-type muffler quiet engine get exhaust out cabin either building thinking build ing Kalt Long Rangers might think about using Hirobo muffler fuse lage pretty narrow much room muffler course could use rearexhaust engine solve problems Anyway Cobra/OS/Hirobo muffler combo lay right Kalts fuselage perfect fit Lately Ive using PCM FM pulse-code modulationRMcM radios movie work especially scenes copter must blown up feel safer fall-safe function set move servo arm away detona tion switch Rangers used Futaba PCMs have very pleased per formance Since Rangers close scale Continued page 138 June 1988 135 ELECTRICNQAdEi& Buzz skies search RED BARON DSCs neat little stand-way-off scale model famous WA/I fighter take-offs aerobatics touch goes 40 span 276 sq area beauly 6 7 cells Simple quick build precut fuselage sides toil feathers combo includes DSC HYPERTHRUST 075 motor fused switch harness tamiya connector pro peller adaptor propeller kit i rj 30 amperes meter determine current draw motor/propeller combination 6 PAVEY675 TOWER LANE YSTEMS WEST CHESTER PA 193W ORPORATION RC Helicopters/Jolly Continued page 135 possible go flybarless rotor head Ive flying GMPs heads flybarless several years now have excellent re suits modifying following way center yoke bandsawed off top machined portion head head assembled normally except damp ening must tight possible Rang ers ran GMP blades cut rotor diameter 58 blade ballasted center-of-gravity-corrected weight 190 grams Set up way ships superb fly Because use no mixer headjust two links direct swashplateI must cut down collective cyclic throws can quite excessive try heads flybarless just make sure dampening tight throws reduced head gets normal pitch changes youll really like flying flybarless Also 190-gram blades autorotations dream fact night flying Rangers just set down ground Being cute hit throttle hold pulled up collective head has much inertia Helicopter lifted higher head settled slowly back ground thought sure would run out blade speed bend bird up honest soft touchdown achieved So finished three Rangers time shipped ahead Globe AZ film ing would take place arrived two days later uncrated beauties finding minimal damage flicted air freight kind winced found Out would flying elevation 4000 ft Believe nothing gets director excited watch ing flying bomb winding up wanting lift off loaded 13 lb Cobra/ Rangers flew excellentlyeven altitude Franidy after building three Helicopters shipping location span month flying anticlimactic director picked out rock face locked off two high-speed cam eras panned two hit spot first time Id used real explosives like potassium nitrate primer cord weird have machine strike wall see flash observe total disintegration fuselage mechanics falling ground As loaded up after destroying third ship thinking grateful could de pend various model companies provide quality equipment capable doing job safely Anyway see Midnight Run look small part model aviation played give believable explosion New GMP machine coming Gorham Model Products has just given permission nounce new aerobatic Helicopter Leg end have flown prototype can tell Legend quite capable dar ing acrobatic maneuvers GMP will showing ship Toledo made show saw public display first time Anyway Legend still cooperative ef fort between Gorham Hirobo lot Gorham Legend features flybar less rotor head toothed-belt tail rotor drive ex tremely light weight John says de mostly two new space age materials called aluminum steel As soon can get some pictures Ill give preview BCNU Wellesley/Pelly-Fry Continued page 60 thin three-ply flaps split type hinged rear spar three points side flaps lightly braced fore aft along inside span make rigid Small cutaways under wing accommodate will give snug fit flap bellcrank fitted coincide servo location Using servo flap merely conveni ent rather technical necessity Its easy harmonize two servos adjust ments devises method constructing wing out ers same main inner wing ailerons having recessed hinge Set up port starboard wings spe cially made jigs making provision three degrees washout cut sand soft balsa wing tips shape glue place Finish covering outers nylon Before constructing ailerons provide access aileron bellcranks using Du Bro quarter-turn latches As shown drawing aileron consists basically number balsa ribs half-round lead ing edges aluminum tube spar located fat point rib section trailing FOAM WING CORES muuumuu.uuuuuumummu.uuuuuuuuuuu.uuummm U U I PRECISION MADE EXPANDED BEAD POLYSTYRENE REPLACEMENT WING & STAB CORES FOR ALLI POPULAR RIC AIRCRAFT OVER 250 DIFFERENT WINGS IMMEDIATE DELI VERE SO IF YOU HAVE U AFAVORITEBIRD THAT NEEDS WING CALL OR WRITE USI I- SEND $350 FOR OESCRIPTIVB PRODUCT CATALOGj I U U U U II U U U U U uuuemmuuumumuUUuuuuuummmuuum..~... /VG MFG WING MPG P0 BOX 33 CRYSTAL LAKE IL 60014 p p pg S 0 AMERICAN JR OM RIDGE CAMPBELL T RITE DUBRO EASY BUILT MODELS FLYLINE FOX BERG DUBOIS LOW K&B MICRO X OS MAX RA PECK-POLYMER ECT MODELS SEAGLEN STERUNG IVAN SUPER TIGER INDER PLITE LER WILLIAMSS PRODUCTS RS ESTES MODEL ROCKETS Send Si Caeh Cheek ow Stamp eur 32 page tabloid size DISCOUNT Catalog 900 jItosttions ove 700 Kits choose Io, MAILOROER PHONEORDER IN STORE PENN VALLEY HORNY CENTER 837 1 Main St LansdalmVa 19445 138 Model Aviation REPRODUCTION PARTS FOR ANTIQUE IGNITION ENGINES o SPARK PLUGSa TANK TOPSa POINTS o TIMERSo GASKETSoTANKS o NEEDLE VALVESa SCREW SETSo COILS o EXHAUST STACKSe MANUALSa PROP DRIVES OVER 1000 ITEMS FOR MORE THAN 60 ENGINES SEND $4 FOR CATALOG #10 IN US & CANADA INTERNATIONAL $7 air mail MICRO MODEL ENGINEERING 1301 W LAFAYETTE ST STURGIS MI 49091 LL Fu sToo ng P0 Box 95 Champaign lLDiou