THE FIRST ANNUAL World War Control Line Radio Control Model Airplane Demonstration held Birchwood Pocono Airpark October 25 1975 rain date sponsored Pocono Modelers Club Keystone Breakers CB Radio Club cosponsor ship worked out well because Pocono Modelers deployed major effort putting air show Keystone Breakers took care parking refresh ments ticket sales cleanup etc Joel S Samuelson Rain Show Birchwood Poconos honey moon resort also has public airstrip Mr Hoffman owner resort professional pilot Pan Am built strip because love flying addi tion night club Birchwood called Red Baron natural air show An aerial dogfight tween mean Red Baron under dog Snoopy featured event Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau continued page 9S March1976 37 few brave spectators standing boards keep getting wet peer mist watch breath-taking spectacle re peated yearly years show called First Annual World War Control Line Radio Control Model Airplane Demonstration younger generation listening Reign appropriately named weather incidentally thing Show broadly planned Come get itl Willie Way hams up camera chef photographer Pix William Way Joel Samuleson Left Ralph Jackson beautiful YAT-28E Following fly-by Bristol Bullet open show action constant fuels market secret ingredients its difficult consumer make heads tails out picture some useful data THIS IS NOT product report nor endorsement product manu facturer supplier model engine fuels lubricants intended solely pre sent facts based experimental data ob tained through standard test procedures inspiration article has come talk opinions hearsay claims whatever have existed concerning model engine lubricants primarily syn thetic oils seems lately everyone fuel business Toledo Show count ed 13 different booths advertising fuels lubricants additives Fifteen years ago modeler very limited choice maybe Fox Cox K&B Power Mist Nitro X hobby shops Now has seemingly unlimited choice brands nitro contents years castor oil accepted standard used mixing model engine fuels part quite effective did however have some draw backs especially fuel mixtures high nitromethane contents mixtures above approximately 23 parts nitrometh ane 1 part castor oil co-solvent such nitrobenzene added partic ular additive gave exotic fuels familiar shoe-polish smell However Straight Talk FueL Lubricari John F Kilsdonk addition nitrobenzene part coun teracted power benefits obtained additional oxygen bearing nitrometh ane addition detrimental carbon de posits accumulated inside sometimes outside engine unburned hydrocarbon residue benzene Some amounts carbon varnishing also prevalent castor oil varied purity refinement oil Sometime early 1960s alternate lubricants began emerge Other natural vegetable oils synthetic substitutes came popular Derivatives soy bean oil gained popularity commercial fuels such RAMM K&B speed About same time functional fluids developed Union Carbide also gained recognition history synthetic lubricants actually dates back post WW II family fluids developed particular purpose mind replace use vegetable- petro leum-base oils compressors auto motive brake systems attendant prob lems rancidity breakdown carbon 38 Model Aviation John Kilsdonk records temperature data Art Adamisen adjusts needle valve test engine
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/03
Page Numbers: 37, 95
THE FIRST ANNUAL World War Control Line Radio Control Model Airplane Demonstration held Birchwood Pocono Airpark October 25 1975 rain date sponsored Pocono Modelers Club Keystone Breakers CB Radio Club cosponsor ship worked out well because Pocono Modelers deployed major effort putting air show Keystone Breakers took care parking refresh ments ticket sales cleanup etc Joel S Samuelson Rain Show Birchwood Poconos honey moon resort also has public airstrip Mr Hoffman owner resort professional pilot Pan Am built strip because love flying addi tion night club Birchwood called Red Baron natural air show An aerial dogfight tween mean Red Baron under dog Snoopy featured event Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau continued page 9S March1976 37 few brave spectators standing boards keep getting wet peer mist watch breath-taking spectacle re peated yearly years show called First Annual World War Control Line Radio Control Model Airplane Demonstration younger generation listening Reign appropriately named weather incidentally thing Show broadly planned Come get itl Willie Way hams up camera chef photographer Pix William Way Joel Samuleson Left Ralph Jackson beautiful YAT-28E Following fly-by Bristol Bullet open show action constant fuels market secret ingredients its difficult consumer make heads tails out picture some useful data THIS IS NOT product report nor endorsement product manu facturer supplier model engine fuels lubricants intended solely pre sent facts based experimental data ob tained through standard test procedures inspiration article has come talk opinions hearsay claims whatever have existed concerning model engine lubricants primarily syn thetic oils seems lately everyone fuel business Toledo Show count ed 13 different booths advertising fuels lubricants additives Fifteen years ago modeler very limited choice maybe Fox Cox K&B Power Mist Nitro X hobby shops Now has seemingly unlimited choice brands nitro contents years castor oil accepted standard used mixing model engine fuels part quite effective did however have some draw backs especially fuel mixtures high nitromethane contents mixtures above approximately 23 parts nitrometh ane 1 part castor oil co-solvent such nitrobenzene added partic ular additive gave exotic fuels familiar shoe-polish smell However Straight Talk FueL Lubricari John F Kilsdonk addition nitrobenzene part coun teracted power benefits obtained additional oxygen bearing nitrometh ane addition detrimental carbon de posits accumulated inside sometimes outside engine unburned hydrocarbon residue benzene Some amounts carbon varnishing also prevalent castor oil varied purity refinement oil Sometime early 1960s alternate lubricants began emerge Other natural vegetable oils synthetic substitutes came popular Derivatives soy bean oil gained popularity commercial fuels such RAMM K&B speed About same time functional fluids developed Union Carbide also gained recognition history synthetic lubricants actually dates back post WW II family fluids developed particular purpose mind replace use vegetable- petro leum-base oils compressors auto motive brake systems attendant prob lems rancidity breakdown carbon 38 Model Aviation John Kilsdonk records temperature data Art Adamisen adjusts needle valve test engine