Sal's Dream: Test pilot and modeler share a piece of aviation history

Tst r MAUI a 4 ART duties District II Associate Vice President Suffolk Nassau NY counties attended Fun-Fly Brookhaven Model Airplane Facility Beilport NY co hosted Long Island Aero Radio Society LIARS Suffolk Wings participants Sal Calvagna Holbrook NY approached photo album hand began tell about late-summer meeting between group model enthusiasts last remaining test pilots fastest airplane World War II Sal Scale model devotee member International Miniature Aircraft Association IMAA group other local large-scale devotees travel Northeast attend events wives permit Eager meet fellow modelers around region see new exciting Scale airplanes group soon realized examples just few different aircraft types P-51 Mustangs F-4U Corsairs North American AT-6s etc Sal decided would like build something different found article modeling magazine advertised plans Messerschmitt 163 Komet designed James W Kiehl Largo Florida Sal purchased plan 82-inch version IMAA legal flew flawlessly Superigre 90 well fact enlarged plans built 100-inch version powered Zenoah G-38 smoke system simulate rocket power split flaps air-operated landing skid 44 Model Aviation p photo Stratford CT fly-in Sal Cavagna kneeling Sal Cavagnas Komet ready go flightline version far left Rudy Opitz kneeling second right has 100-inch span powered Zenoah G-38 browsing through popular aviation magazine Sal read story about Komet great amazement included interview original test pilots Rudy Opitz After little detective work soon talking Mr Opitz phone Asked would like meet some aviation enthusiasts see model fly Rudy eager accept So September 27 1997 group traveled Stratford Connecticut attend Balsa Bugs Giant Scale Fly-In After tent set up models put together inspected elderly gentleman approached no mistaking himit Rudy Opitz After greetings salutations some initial photo opportunities Sal ready show Rudy model famous aircraft flies 50 years since Rudy last felt C-forces tailless airplane propelled him amazing speeds Seeing Rudy watch model fly could help see smile growing face After yet another successful deadstick landing Rudy happy autograph Sals Komet sat down chatted Rudy hours days increasingly difficult find original test pilots WW II aircraft imagine chances finding meeting original test pilots operational rocket-powered interceptor ever used really really great day hic Design carla Kunz Photos courtesy Prank Pace Rudy Opitz Scale Model Research MANY RARE exotic aircraft have built flown during history flight Some made historic flights others have technical advances production aircraft few shake very foundations aeronautical community subject month aircraft would fall last categoryan engineering leap decades ahead its time respects same time failed accomplish its primary operational objective destroy WW II Allied bomber streams 1930s new Nazi Germany encouraged model aircraft competition model building full-scale glider competitions Germany educating generation pilots its new Luftwaffe Alexander Lippisch designer glider aircraft designs revolutionary own right pioneered tailless aircraft built several canard glider designs mountains central Germany Lippiseb became known innovative designs including flying wing gliders Fritz Von Opel automobile designer interested rocket-powered autos attracting attentionto products well science Using solid-fuel rockets Von Opel would attach auto possible usually created spectacle assembled crowd developed first successful rocket-powered automobile Von Opel planted seeds rocket power Germany others tried luck making rockets viable means propulsion failed miserably Von Opel kept experimenting rocket power changed vehicle rocket power automobile aircraft Von Opel went Lippisch began collaboration rocketpowered aircraft During time several different designers experimenting liquid-fueled rockets Lippisch experimented other flying wing configurations known father delta wing first delta wing aircraft Delta first flew 1931 powered Bristol Cherub engine setbacks Lippischs work time government almost canceled entire program As continued work delta concept Lippisch hired test pilot Heini Dittmar first fly DFS 39 Delta IVe Walter liquid-fuel rocket motor successfully installed flown Heinkel 112 1937 successful tests would have profound effect aircraft designed Lippisch built Messerschmitt Some called Flying November1998 45 U Stan Alexander Sal Rudy posethere admirers Rudy autographs Sals model after successful flight Egg others called flying coffin world would know aircraft fastest WW II era 163 Komet 1939 design details being worked out 163 war broke out Europe early 1940 halt experimental design studies implemented Hitler himself belief war would come quick end England United States would enter 163 design kept alive determination its designer few backers Glider tests unpowered 163 continued Dittmar pilot During test flight front then-Director General Luftwaffe Equipment Ernst Udet 163 made diving pass well excess 400 mph After flight Udet shown aircraft no engine believe glider could achieve such impressive results first Komet design model aircraft first tested unpowered glider towed altitude released conventional gliders today aerodynamic tests successful powered flight delayed slow development new Walter rocket engine test pilot Lippisch wanted add least other pilot project glider pilot born August 1910 flew combat mission WW II later went United States help rocket program Sal Calvagna knows him Rudy Opitz full name Rudolph Opitz As highly respected glider test pilot Rudy tested Lippischs designs during 1930s managed test-flying school gliders well training research group Heini Dittmar became first pilot fly unpowered glider powered 163 Rudy became second test pilot 163 project sent Peenemunde top-secret test facility Germanys wonder weapons test pilots given specially prepared bland meals eliminate intestinal problems exercise programs help pilots cope high stress placed bodies incredible G forces created increase speed 163 could climb zero 30000 feet less three minutes speed 500 mph Top speed recorded 593 mph 163B-la During Heini Dittmars second flight 163a broke existing speed record 469 mph record would remain secret within small group knew development prospect using little airplane interceptor discussed Lippisch wasnt interested using experimental design fighter because time could see aircrafts weakness role Udet impressed performance immediately ordered weapons added craft aircraft lacked stable fuel off C Stoff 46 Model Aviation rator propeller Note offset two blades Landing skid intended experimental version Two 20mm MG 151 guns mounted wing roots Exhaust nozzle aerodynamic shape fuselage could literally cause little aircraft explode runway fueling during takeoff during landing As aircraft lost operational accidents Allied fighters two-part fuel delivered 163 filled separate crews T C Stoff main ingredients T Stoff hydrogen peroxide water C Stoff hydrazine hydrate methyl alcohol Stoff fuselage surrounded pilot three sides C Stoff carried separate tanks wings two made contact outside engine would explode results could deadly Other models 163 would follow little aircraft could jump like flea would make brief operational debut air war 163 stationed near large unmovable targets such ballbearing works refineries could intercept bomber stream within two minutes scramble make three four passes through bombers before gliding back base Specialized tractors waiting pick up fighters return refueled could fly several missions hour 163 too little too late next version 163 would have 263 larger fuselage engine two-stage rocket capable flying longer periods time retractable landing gear 163 definitely leap aircraft design 263 example ahead time decades fuselage conventional construction wings made wood covered plywood models wings also have leadingedge slats stabilize aircraft during its gliding descent back earth landing aircraft used elevons combination ailerons elevator outboard trailing edge split flaps mounted inboard slow 163 down during landing retractable skid stopgap experimental aircraft design intended production aircraft rushed combat too soon small propeller nose craft powered electric generator operated electrical components Several museums around world have 163s display Documentation plentiful could make great model Scale glider competition powered Scale competition fun-flys interesting day park show up home field will almost guaranteed crowd replica 163 flying today Josef Kurz Germany has built flies own 163 glider full-scale replica Construction started 1994 first flight made June 1996 Mr Kurz has replaced skid single wheel tail wheel completely faired has attempted recreate color scheme 163B V41 painted red 163s first combat mission May 1944 Imagine flying glider 400 mph Fully aerobatic great glide ratio model 163 just might what youre looking want something just little different conversation piece just great-flying model uction models 163 Includes Vl-5 models 1940-1941 163A-0 Eight airframes built 163B Two airframes December 1941 June 1943 163 B-0/Ba-1 group 47 examples equipped 20mm MG 151 guns later aircraft equipped 30mm Mk 108 cannon 163 B-la Approximately 327 built Aircraft Specifications Length 19 feet four inches lestall let tery Mealier let uc caused chuaae/. Sw/f cA ec pea Ri. aLEIs GO FLi re-chuige. Red Check letter Eajey RE/MILE S-LD-W Idle PLUS. E4SY S*FE sterns Singles Twins NO Interference Works Rrs Light Less 35 grams Ultra-simple Installation KIXI g KLPJLY1 ectroiynamics 31185 Schoolcraft Livonia Ml 48150 Website hftp//wwwelectrodynamcom 1-800-337-1638 Orders Info 1 313 422 5420 W5A Fax 13134225338 November1998 47 EDR-io bRTTERY ifian/TOR Peace Mind. YOU tine up yourrut lung slow approach. Theres no fear flameouts GIowL Itos onboardi doesnt get better this. 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Tst r MAUI a 4 ART duties District II Associate Vice President Suffolk Nassau NY counties attended Fun-Fly Brookhaven Model Airplane Facility Beilport NY co hosted Long Island Aero Radio Society LIARS Suffolk Wings participants Sal Calvagna Holbrook NY approached photo album hand began tell about late-summer meeting between group model enthusiasts last remaining test pilots fastest airplane World War II Sal Scale model devotee member International Miniature Aircraft Association IMAA group other local large-scale devotees travel Northeast attend events wives permit Eager meet fellow modelers around region see new exciting Scale airplanes group soon realized examples just few different aircraft types P-51 Mustangs F-4U Corsairs North American AT-6s etc Sal decided would like build something different found article modeling magazine advertised plans Messerschmitt 163 Komet designed James W Kiehl Largo Florida Sal purchased plan 82-inch version IMAA legal flew flawlessly Superigre 90 well fact enlarged plans built 100-inch version powered Zenoah G-38 smoke system simulate rocket power split flaps air-operated landing skid 44 Model Aviation p photo Stratford CT fly-in Sal Cavagna kneeling Sal Cavagnas Komet ready go flightline version far left Rudy Opitz kneeling second right has 100-inch span powered Zenoah G-38 browsing through popular aviation magazine Sal read story about Komet great amazement included interview original test pilots Rudy Opitz After little detective work soon talking Mr Opitz phone Asked would like meet some aviation enthusiasts see model fly Rudy eager accept So September 27 1997 group traveled Stratford Connecticut attend Balsa Bugs Giant Scale Fly-In After tent set up models put together inspected elderly gentleman approached no mistaking himit Rudy Opitz After greetings salutations some initial photo opportunities Sal ready show Rudy model famous aircraft flies 50 years since Rudy last felt C-forces tailless airplane propelled him amazing speeds Seeing Rudy watch model fly could help see smile growing face After yet another successful deadstick landing Rudy happy autograph Sals Komet sat down chatted Rudy hours days increasingly difficult find original test pilots WW II aircraft imagine chances finding meeting original test pilots operational rocket-powered interceptor ever used really really great day hic Design carla Kunz Photos courtesy Prank Pace Rudy Opitz Scale Model Research MANY RARE exotic aircraft have built flown during history flight Some made historic flights others have technical advances production aircraft few shake very foundations aeronautical community subject month aircraft would fall last categoryan engineering leap decades ahead its time respects same time failed accomplish its primary operational objective destroy WW II Allied bomber streams 1930s new Nazi Germany encouraged model aircraft competition model building full-scale glider competitions Germany educating generation pilots its new Luftwaffe Alexander Lippisch designer glider aircraft designs revolutionary own right pioneered tailless aircraft built several canard glider designs mountains central Germany Lippiseb became known innovative designs including flying wing gliders Fritz Von Opel automobile designer interested rocket-powered autos attracting attentionto products well science Using solid-fuel rockets Von Opel would attach auto possible usually created spectacle assembled crowd developed first successful rocket-powered automobile Von Opel planted seeds rocket power Germany others tried luck making rockets viable means propulsion failed miserably Von Opel kept experimenting rocket power changed vehicle rocket power automobile aircraft Von Opel went Lippisch began collaboration rocketpowered aircraft During time several different designers experimenting liquid-fueled rockets Lippisch experimented other flying wing configurations known father delta wing first delta wing aircraft Delta first flew 1931 powered Bristol Cherub engine setbacks Lippischs work time government almost canceled entire program As continued work delta concept Lippisch hired test pilot Heini Dittmar first fly DFS 39 Delta IVe Walter liquid-fuel rocket motor successfully installed flown Heinkel 112 1937 successful tests would have profound effect aircraft designed Lippisch built Messerschmitt Some called Flying November1998 45 U Stan Alexander Sal Rudy posethere admirers Rudy autographs Sals model after successful flight Egg others called flying coffin world would know aircraft fastest WW II era 163 Komet 1939 design details being worked out 163 war broke out Europe early 1940 halt experimental design studies implemented Hitler himself belief war would come quick end England United States would enter 163 design kept alive determination its designer few backers Glider tests unpowered 163 continued Dittmar pilot During test flight front then-Director General Luftwaffe Equipment Ernst Udet 163 made diving pass well excess 400 mph After flight Udet shown aircraft no engine believe glider could achieve such impressive results first Komet design model aircraft first tested unpowered glider towed altitude released conventional gliders today aerodynamic tests successful powered flight delayed slow development new Walter rocket engine test pilot Lippisch wanted add least other pilot project glider pilot born August 1910 flew combat mission WW II later went United States help rocket program Sal Calvagna knows him Rudy Opitz full name Rudolph Opitz As highly respected glider test pilot Rudy tested Lippischs designs during 1930s managed test-flying school gliders well training research group Heini Dittmar became first pilot fly unpowered glider powered 163 Rudy became second test pilot 163 project sent Peenemunde top-secret test facility Germanys wonder weapons test pilots given specially prepared bland meals eliminate intestinal problems exercise programs help pilots cope high stress placed bodies incredible G forces created increase speed 163 could climb zero 30000 feet less three minutes speed 500 mph Top speed recorded 593 mph 163B-la During Heini Dittmars second flight 163a broke existing speed record 469 mph record would remain secret within small group knew development prospect using little airplane interceptor discussed Lippisch wasnt interested using experimental design fighter because time could see aircrafts weakness role Udet impressed performance immediately ordered weapons added craft aircraft lacked stable fuel off C Stoff 46 Model Aviation rator propeller Note offset two blades Landing skid intended experimental version Two 20mm MG 151 guns mounted wing roots Exhaust nozzle aerodynamic shape fuselage could literally cause little aircraft explode runway fueling during takeoff during landing As aircraft lost operational accidents Allied fighters two-part fuel delivered 163 filled separate crews T C Stoff main ingredients T Stoff hydrogen peroxide water C Stoff hydrazine hydrate methyl alcohol Stoff fuselage surrounded pilot three sides C Stoff carried separate tanks wings two made contact outside engine would explode results could deadly Other models 163 would follow little aircraft could jump like flea would make brief operational debut air war 163 stationed near large unmovable targets such ballbearing works refineries could intercept bomber stream within two minutes scramble make three four passes through bombers before gliding back base Specialized tractors waiting pick up fighters return refueled could fly several missions hour 163 too little too late next version 163 would have 263 larger fuselage engine two-stage rocket capable flying longer periods time retractable landing gear 163 definitely leap aircraft design 263 example ahead time decades fuselage conventional construction wings made wood covered plywood models wings also have leadingedge slats stabilize aircraft during its gliding descent back earth landing aircraft used elevons combination ailerons elevator outboard trailing edge split flaps mounted inboard slow 163 down during landing retractable skid stopgap experimental aircraft design intended production aircraft rushed combat too soon small propeller nose craft powered electric generator operated electrical components Several museums around world have 163s display Documentation plentiful could make great model Scale glider competition powered Scale competition fun-flys interesting day park show up home field will almost guaranteed crowd replica 163 flying today Josef Kurz Germany has built flies own 163 glider full-scale replica Construction started 1994 first flight made June 1996 Mr Kurz has replaced skid single wheel tail wheel completely faired has attempted recreate color scheme 163B V41 painted red 163s first combat mission May 1944 Imagine flying glider 400 mph Fully aerobatic great glide ratio model 163 just might what youre looking want something just little different conversation piece just great-flying model uction models 163 Includes Vl-5 models 1940-1941 163A-0 Eight airframes built 163B Two airframes December 1941 June 1943 163 B-0/Ba-1 group 47 examples equipped 20mm MG 151 guns later aircraft equipped 30mm Mk 108 cannon 163 B-la Approximately 327 built Aircraft Specifications Length 19 feet four inches lestall let tery Mealier let uc caused chuaae/. Sw/f cA ec pea Ri. aLEIs GO FLi re-chuige. Red Check letter Eajey RE/MILE S-LD-W Idle PLUS. E4SY S*FE sterns Singles Twins NO Interference Works Rrs Light Less 35 grams Ultra-simple Installation KIXI g KLPJLY1 ectroiynamics 31185 Schoolcraft Livonia Ml 48150 Website hftp//wwwelectrodynamcom 1-800-337-1638 Orders Info 1 313 422 5420 W5A Fax 13134225338 November1998 47 EDR-io bRTTERY ifian/TOR Peace Mind. YOU tine up yourrut lung slow approach. Theres no fear flameouts GIowL Itos onboardi doesnt get better this. Are Paying Less Compare Tee-Bars other similar-looking products cost about 50% TeeStripsitO itt 28t Grits Self-Adhesive Sanding Strips3015 roIl Si Carbide $795Tee-Bar$3 St 11 3 015 rot Garnet $675colt$3 41/2 120 itt i 320 Grits tt0FtiCSS 3s 12 roIl AluminumOxide $675 Applied Design Corporation D C PO Box 3384 Torrance CA 90510 310-375-4120 Fax 310-375-1590 Add 20% shipping Send SASE Catalog Introducing 30 Wingspan Laser Cut Rubber Powered Flying Models Kit #301 Over 80 LASER CUT PARTS Kit #303 Over 75 LASER CUT PARTS good thing just got bigger expanding line airplanes addition new 30 wingspan laser cut kits Like walnut series line geared toward exciting subject matter captures best model aviation has offer Besides offering cleanest laser cuts comprehensive plans free flight kit provide following quality features Hand Selected Balsa Color Peel & Stick Decal Set 9 Plastic Propeller Full Size Plan FAI Tan II Rubber Step Step Instructions Vacuum Molded Parts Light Weight Colored Tissue Call today 1-800-458-2828 Ext 800 ask information packet Dumas line Rubber Powered Flying Models dumas aircraft DUMAS PRODUCTS INC 9O9AMA E 17th St Tucson AZ 85719 Phone 520-623-3742 Fax 520-620-1329 E-MAIL dumas@azstarnetcom Height 9 feet two inches Wingspan 30 feet six inches Wing area 199 square feet Empty weight 4200 pounds Gross weight 9502 pounds Power plant Walter HWK 509A-2 Thrust 3748 pounds Cruise speed 575 mph Max speed 593 mph Climb 16000 ft/mm Ceiling 40000 ft Documentation Sources Books Messerschmitt 163 & Heinkel 162 Aero Detail 10 Shigeru Nohara & Masatsugu Shiwaku ished Dai Nippon Kaiga Co Ltd ISBN 4-499-226295 Zenith Aviation well Historic Aviation has Wings Luftwaffe Captain Eric Brown Published Airlife Publishing Ltd ISBN 1 853104132 pages 167-176 Messerschmitt Anthony Pritchard Published GP Putnams Sons 1975 ISBN 399-11457-2 Library Congress Catalog Number 74-30577 pages 133-147 Official Monogram Painting Guide German Aircraft 1 935-1945 Kenneth Merrick & Thomas H Hitchcock Published Monogram Aviation ISBN 0-914144-294 Library Congress Card # 80-80846 pages 48-53 163 Komet AJ Press Poland 1997 ISBN 89-86208-62-773 English/Polish text Messerschmitt 163 Vol 1 Mano Ziegler Schiffer Military Press 1990 ISBN 0-88740-403-0 Messerschmitt 163 Vol 2 M Emmerling J Dressel Schiffer Military Press 1990 ISBN 0-88740-232-1 Top Secret Bird Luftwaffes 163 Comet Wolfgang Spate published Pictorial Histories Publishing 1989 ISBN 0929521-08-0 Magazines RAF Flying Review February 1959 pages 16-19 Air Progress June/July 1963 Flying Review International September 1965 pages 27-29 Wings April 1977 pages 10-19 56-57 6567 Airpower May 1977 pages 38-49 6465 Scale Modeler April 1984 pages 56-61 Photo Documentation Scale Model Research 3114 Yukon Ave Costa Mesa CA 92626 Scale Plans & Photo Service 3209 Madison Ave Greensboro NC 27403 Plans Scale Plans & Photo Service Plans Dennis Bryant 163 61-inch span Model Airplane News 163 b-lA wingspan 59 inches five channels Bob Holman Plans Box 741 San Bernardino CA 92402 Tel 909 8853959 Radio Control Model World Plans Guide 163 Keith Humber 44-inch span three channels James W Kiehl 13641 Pleasant Drive Largo FL 34644 Tel 813 595-0954 Plans 163 82-inch wingspan plans Sal blew up 100inch span Other Scale Sources NASA Scale Data Source List Government Sources museums photo documentation sources plans $10 includes NASA membership year Cathy Burnstine 303 Finch St Sandusky OH 44870 eIAircIftPa rNCORPORTED WORLDS LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF SUPERIOR EPOXY-GLASS COWLS WHEEL PANTS 8 ACCESSORIES iii p~AIIpIE4 u1 p4ABIiI1ImdIIFUuE1IIIIU CALL NOW 810 677-0213 FAX 810 677-0414 orders 48 Model Aviation #302 Over 70 LASER CUT PARTS Send $100 forOpen $200 ay Friday $300 outside USA10 am 4 pm EST