ill WAS DELIGHTED see Hal deBolts article autogiro April 1977 Model viat ion About year ago men tioned should radio-controlled autogiros around since basically simpler design fly helicopter RC helicopters have flown suc cessfully several years Like peo ple too busy get involved autogiros content let someone else research development along comes Hal deBolt busiest guys around article autogiros So since has already done development work rest us youre like youre looking ward construction article Come Hal will appear MANEd USA Team Selection World Championships scheduled June 25 through July 4 rapidly approaching plan attend competition report Model Avalation Although re ported 1975 Team Selection will first coverage international competition Im looking forward seeing foreign fliers also good chance large percentage countrys RC fliers watch team competition best fliers rest world hope take advantage opportunity Unfortunately fliers almost countries except use 27-MHz fre quency band Id hate try fly frequency band loaded smokey reports distance checks other trash conver sations However preliminary reports SporFAerobatics ORon VanPutte less severe other parts country Lets hope eign visitors has interference problems after going effort expense attend world championships Recently discovered simple servo tester old February 1976 issue DCRC Newsletter Washington DC edited Glenn Scillian Hugh Shoemaker designed servo tester use components cheap easily ob tainable local Radio Shack store tester works well simple Springfield Ohio area indicate put together nonexpert electronics interference problem much 1 Continued page 90 FIWALL Iouia HEAD— &IDT PUSLAGE IPr5CAVAPT O BOTTLE SHOWH IDartED tp-rr1EI CLoox N TA U ILAN st1977 21 Dress up ugly duckling engine fairing old Clorox bottle suggests Bill Burdge Heres ne way cure polyester resin installing firewall fiberglass fuselage Behind typical use old baby food jarscourtesy Van Putte kids Masking tape holds heat pad Richard Barnes-Gorrell controls Bournemouth 4 airship dock RAE Cardington takes 435 cu ft helium inflate Melinex enve lope Car moves trim Electric driven props swivel thrust vector control Plc Mike Wells/A eromodGiler Annual see local hobby dealer veI #l RUBBER & CO2 DIM ioe 24 /2 WINGSPAN WINNER AT THE 50th NATS tOt 22 /2 WINGSPAN 5695 st 40years ago p lStfamaus ______________*108 andRend Speedt 28 WINGSPAN S6 Send tar tree brochure FLYLINE MODELS V10A43 ASHBY FL FAIRFAX VA 22030 C02 Rubber uts Walnuts Hazelnuts $1i i MODERNISTIC MODELS $1000 plans first three in-flight BHP PUBLICATIONS photos Modernistics Waco Aristo PO BOX 6974 ALBUQUERQUE NM 87107 craft Must powered C02 Earli Send SASE listing est postmark No strings attached Good Hunting Clarence Haught Route 5 Box 16 Coeur dAlene ID 83814 RC Sport/Van Putte continued page 21 like have written George Myers writes Radio Technique column suggested either publish column obvious reason am including immediately column item really belongs Radio Technique column dont want step Georges toes will see soon Modders continue see things other people Bill Burdge looked Clorox bot tle saw obvious saw engine fairing own words Bill explains present am using special fairing around under OS Max 45 original-design cabin biplane looks quite nice trick select appropriate size Clorox bottle fairly easy cannot find empty bottle around home always trash barrel nearest laundromat Since Clorox bottles white desires paint fairing color match model good idea rub bot tle vigorously steel wool will both clean material provide bet ter surface dope other paint Don Lowe world class flier always willingly shares flying secrets pro vides assistance fliers less gifted himself following edited version taped conversation between Don Dick McGraw former NSRCA K-Factor editor tape made last years Toledo Exposition gave per mission use will generally find pat tern airplanes set up con trol surface throws fly good pattern may give some difficulty spin maneu ver youve got careful about What milk nose up some reasonable attitude above horizon make sure airplane stalls straight ahead letting dive maneuver flies dives maneuver wont get spin Generally speaking Ive found higher nose pulled above horizon really deep stall easier make airplane spin may sound strange get nose up exaggerated attitude airplane will spin easier get very flat flat entry airplane often doesnt stall completely may slide dive spin come out want start raising nose airplane still has speed enough nose pulled up Since engine will idling wont help much entering spin let airplane slow down too much nose just isnt going come up start raising nose right away bringing up attitude want air plane stall feeding up elevator slows down until stalls hold up elevator feed everything else Ive got including aileron Generally airplanes spin easier right may also sound strange might think going direc tion engine torque would make easier make airplane spin exactly opposite personally prefer spinning airplane left because seems snap out spin easier However airplane particularly difficult spin left trying spin right may solve problem another trick works some airplanes Dropping landing gear makes some airplanes spin easier adds drag shifts vertical center grav ity Beyond Im really sure just what does does work some air planes Phoenix 5 didnt spin easily always dropped landing gear make spin theres nothing rules says cant insurance policy get pat tern-type airplane has properly set up other maneuvers spin add dual rate elevator will give additional elevator control spin course another insurance policy obtain easy spin entry get Phoenix 7 because changes made tween Phoenix 6 Phoenix 7 done improve spin entry June column made tongue-incheek suggestion about Fun Fly event involving contestants passing transmitters another Norm Schini Nap panee Indiana took up challenge wrote idea Fun Fly event great thing forgot schedule auction Norm went mention club Sky Knights Fun Fly coming up will contest director welcomed some ideas events ideas Fun Fly events involve both fun safe air plane pilot spectators Too often events geared best fliers club end up plane breakers dangerous events average flier Events should designed average pilots flying average airplanes can have safe fun competing against other have some ideas meet criteria events Id like hear can shared via column meantime few like Le Mans Start pilot removes prop nut prop airplane goes starting line signal watch started runs airplane carrying prop prop nut bal anced installs prop nut starts engine takes off airplane Time stops airplane leaves ground course minimum time wins 90 Model Aviation Stahl design 10% FOR PACKING AND POSTAGE VA RESIDENTS ADD 4% TAX
Edition: Model Aviation - 1977/08
Page Numbers: 21, 90
Edition: Model Aviation - 1977/08
Page Numbers: 21, 90
ill WAS DELIGHTED see Hal deBolts article autogiro April 1977 Model viat ion About year ago men tioned should radio-controlled autogiros around since basically simpler design fly helicopter RC helicopters have flown suc cessfully several years Like peo ple too busy get involved autogiros content let someone else research development along comes Hal deBolt busiest guys around article autogiros So since has already done development work rest us youre like youre looking ward construction article Come Hal will appear MANEd USA Team Selection World Championships scheduled June 25 through July 4 rapidly approaching plan attend competition report Model Avalation Although re ported 1975 Team Selection will first coverage international competition Im looking forward seeing foreign fliers also good chance large percentage countrys RC fliers watch team competition best fliers rest world hope take advantage opportunity Unfortunately fliers almost countries except use 27-MHz fre quency band Id hate try fly frequency band loaded smokey reports distance checks other trash conver sations However preliminary reports SporFAerobatics ORon VanPutte less severe other parts country Lets hope eign visitors has interference problems after going effort expense attend world championships Recently discovered simple servo tester old February 1976 issue DCRC Newsletter Washington DC edited Glenn Scillian Hugh Shoemaker designed servo tester use components cheap easily ob tainable local Radio Shack store tester works well simple Springfield Ohio area indicate put together nonexpert electronics interference problem much 1 Continued page 90 FIWALL Iouia HEAD— &IDT PUSLAGE IPr5CAVAPT O BOTTLE SHOWH IDartED tp-rr1EI CLoox N TA U ILAN st1977 21 Dress up ugly duckling engine fairing old Clorox bottle suggests Bill Burdge Heres ne way cure polyester resin installing firewall fiberglass fuselage Behind typical use old baby food jarscourtesy Van Putte kids Masking tape holds heat pad Richard Barnes-Gorrell controls Bournemouth 4 airship dock RAE Cardington takes 435 cu ft helium inflate Melinex enve lope Car moves trim Electric driven props swivel thrust vector control Plc Mike Wells/A eromodGiler Annual see local hobby dealer veI #l RUBBER & CO2 DIM ioe 24 /2 WINGSPAN WINNER AT THE 50th NATS tOt 22 /2 WINGSPAN 5695 st 40years ago p lStfamaus ______________*108 andRend Speedt 28 WINGSPAN S6 Send tar tree brochure FLYLINE MODELS V10A43 ASHBY FL FAIRFAX VA 22030 C02 Rubber uts Walnuts Hazelnuts $1i i MODERNISTIC MODELS $1000 plans first three in-flight BHP PUBLICATIONS photos Modernistics Waco Aristo PO BOX 6974 ALBUQUERQUE NM 87107 craft Must powered C02 Earli Send SASE listing est postmark No strings attached Good Hunting Clarence Haught Route 5 Box 16 Coeur dAlene ID 83814 RC Sport/Van Putte continued page 21 like have written George Myers writes Radio Technique column suggested either publish column obvious reason am including immediately column item really belongs Radio Technique column dont want step Georges toes will see soon Modders continue see things other people Bill Burdge looked Clorox bot tle saw obvious saw engine fairing own words Bill explains present am using special fairing around under OS Max 45 original-design cabin biplane looks quite nice trick select appropriate size Clorox bottle fairly easy cannot find empty bottle around home always trash barrel nearest laundromat Since Clorox bottles white desires paint fairing color match model good idea rub bot tle vigorously steel wool will both clean material provide bet ter surface dope other paint Don Lowe world class flier always willingly shares flying secrets pro vides assistance fliers less gifted himself following edited version taped conversation between Don Dick McGraw former NSRCA K-Factor editor tape made last years Toledo Exposition gave per mission use will generally find pat tern airplanes set up con trol surface throws fly good pattern may give some difficulty spin maneu ver youve got careful about What milk nose up some reasonable attitude above horizon make sure airplane stalls straight ahead letting dive maneuver flies dives maneuver wont get spin Generally speaking Ive found higher nose pulled above horizon really deep stall easier make airplane spin may sound strange get nose up exaggerated attitude airplane will spin easier get very flat flat entry airplane often doesnt stall completely may slide dive spin come out want start raising nose airplane still has speed enough nose pulled up Since engine will idling wont help much entering spin let airplane slow down too much nose just isnt going come up start raising nose right away bringing up attitude want air plane stall feeding up elevator slows down until stalls hold up elevator feed everything else Ive got including aileron Generally airplanes spin easier right may also sound strange might think going direc tion engine torque would make easier make airplane spin exactly opposite personally prefer spinning airplane left because seems snap out spin easier However airplane particularly difficult spin left trying spin right may solve problem another trick works some airplanes Dropping landing gear makes some airplanes spin easier adds drag shifts vertical center grav ity Beyond Im really sure just what does does work some air planes Phoenix 5 didnt spin easily always dropped landing gear make spin theres nothing rules says cant insurance policy get pat tern-type airplane has properly set up other maneuvers spin add dual rate elevator will give additional elevator control spin course another insurance policy obtain easy spin entry get Phoenix 7 because changes made tween Phoenix 6 Phoenix 7 done improve spin entry June column made tongue-incheek suggestion about Fun Fly event involving contestants passing transmitters another Norm Schini Nap panee Indiana took up challenge wrote idea Fun Fly event great thing forgot schedule auction Norm went mention club Sky Knights Fun Fly coming up will contest director welcomed some ideas events ideas Fun Fly events involve both fun safe air plane pilot spectators Too often events geared best fliers club end up plane breakers dangerous events average flier Events should designed average pilots flying average airplanes can have safe fun competing against other have some ideas meet criteria events Id like hear can shared via column meantime few like Le Mans Start pilot removes prop nut prop airplane goes starting line signal watch started runs airplane carrying prop prop nut bal anced installs prop nut starts engine takes off airplane Time stops airplane leaves ground course minimum time wins 90 Model Aviation Stahl design 10% FOR PACKING AND POSTAGE VA RESIDENTS ADD 4% TAX
