Those Days ed Lehmberg Wonder Change thought pioneer Power modelers easy back Thir ties saved early Gas movement being caught cross fire before off ground National Aeronau tic Association fliers own determination 4 mythical pair built wings selves might call first homebuilders certaialy couldnt called MANS FASCINATION flight age- modelers old Daedalus son Icarus the earliest self-taught aerodynam first try soaring through heavens icists perhaps first designer wings feathers wax model airplanes Leonardo da Vinci Left photo taken during th summer oi iu snows Buddy Frazier ieft Richard Sherman working Sherman-designed Rubber job buiit Frazier site lathe north side Jefferson High School driii field very popuiar site ali events except Gas Right photo taken winter 1973 deliberateiy out sequence show what becomes modelers after 35 years hobby Buddy Fra zier holding 1940-vintage Lanzo Stick Richard Sherman winds motor years notwithstanding both look pretty goodi author pictured news article Au gust 15 1937 after having initiated Junior Blrdmen organization spon sored San Antonio Light Hearst newspaper chain Two Outdoor two door competitive meets held year 72 Model Aviation copy original National Aeronautic Association charter NAA seal de signating San Antonio Society Model Engineers Gas Model Chapter NAA names SASME members listed document dated March 24 1938 1938 photo shows Bill Pfeil 36in-span Brat-powered modei weighed 166 oz Bill member 1938 Wakefield team competed France Herb Fisher 1938 Brown-powered Clipper first Clipper appear San Antonio Its floating flight charac teristics caused quite sensation 1938 Leonardos famed drawings flapped wing ornithopters executed around year 1500 show astonishing understand ing dynamics flight day Almost four centuries later models played key role development modern avi ation Samuel Pierpont Langley earliest pioneers build study mmThe second Clipper appear San Antonio Brown Jr-powered ship built Bob Rickard pictured model 1938 Bob race Herb have first Clipper field few days apart competition iature airplanes Langley scientist astronomer served third secre tary Smithsonian Institution built 40 rubber-powered models tween 1887 1895 called aero dromes Wilbur Orville Wright also built models discovering fascinations experimental value firsthand Like originators field Leonardo Langley Wright Brothers worked alone model aviation soli r 1938 winner seen owner Willie Ng appears Berkeley Courier Sportster lowered thrust line probably powered Willies favorite engine Brown Jr tary hobby country began change during late 1920s early 1930s Stirred glamour World War aviators movies such Wings Hells Angels exciting developments aviation re corded almost daily newspapers American public ready model avia tion Recognizing mood entrepreneurs formed small companies offering model building materials some crude kits gossamer-winged models Carl Goldberg boys Chicago turning outstanding flights Newspa pers department stores began organiz ing groups modelers such JordanMarsh Junior Aviator League Pulp magazines called because made newsprint came scene Though carried mainly fiction some pulps included three-view plans solid modelsnot WW contemporaneous aircraft also futuristic designs looked future inciden tally aerodynamicists period dis counted idea space flight certain i,, 4 November 1990 73 Another 1938 photo showing Oliver Pfeil Brown-powered original often flew Kelly Field brother Bill owned popular successful Model Airplane Shop San Antonios Broadway Herb ODell seen 1938 photo GHQ Sportster powered Mighty Midget m Ralph Pressler president SAGMAA 1938 putting cowl place beauti ful Rearwin Speedster may have powered Mighty Midget Ralph gracious ly supplied old club records news clippings used assemble story Left Orin Anderson 17 years old won Arizona State Gas Model Championship 1939 Phoenix Brown-powered Pacific Ace won him another Brown Jr Ohlsson 23 Right refreshment faciiity Keiiy Fieid contest photo probabiy taken 1940 shows ieft Ng Charies Adams Jack Harding Betty Fisher Carl Jonas iooks aii traded shoes Moore props surpass Though seemed no da Vincis day least ex perts resurrected 1898 declaration World Congress Scientists scientific advances late-19th-century group de cided made minor im provements discoveries possi ble newspaper sponsored two Outdoor two Indoor contests annually winners competing sponsors expense national Junior Birdmen Championship San Antonios Texas link Hearst chain San Antonio Light recall several top Birdmen Charlie Adams Fred Cordova Richard Sher man extremely competent events Charlie Fred best known outstanding throwing arms Hand-Launched Glider Dick ex celled Indoor Some years later Dick nar rowly missed making Wakefield team Unlike teenaged peers three young men always ready help out us novice builders just few years junior Go away kid bother sort thing gotten used hearing 15-year-old idols age 11 12 hurt Birdmen divided two class es Junior under 16 Senior under 21 Competition fierce particularly Sen ior contender didnt make town might visit relatives another try again winter small house trailer appeared vacant lot San Antonios south side San Antonio address modeler within eligible enter 1937 best recollection Indoor contest didnt 74 Model Aviation Singie-wheeled models very popuiar San Antonio 1939 Ralph Pressler left Herb Fisher right being assisted HL Shiiier center San Antonio Exchange Ciub getting modeis ready contest sponsored ciub rumor Mr Shiiier ieft set Wizard Oz assist contest compieteiy untrue rockets would never attain necessary ye- Founded famed Hearst Syndicate pub locity escape muzzle velocity lisher William Randolph Hearst Junior SAGMAA members ieft miles per second alsoBirdmen America became largest ofciub another Robert sevenA Sedgewick pictured cadet skeptical aircraft could ever match the groups promoting model aviation during 1939 iast heard speed soundand sure would never Golden Age Flight Hearst captain U S Army Air Corps 1942 summer 1940 search new competition inciuded Stunt event Ohisson 60-powered Cilpper right carried Atom-powered Ciipper Jr aloft both en gines running Ciipper Jr would reisased its pneumatic-controiied cradle go Its own way left Bud Frazier left Lee Sherman pose Ciipper combo Sherman owned Clipper Frazier Ciipper Jr Lee kiiied Burma 1943 win trip championships although believe did win hometown following year name Roy Mar quardt future founder Marquardt Aviation aerospace contrac tor thats still going strong today Theres example what promoting model avia tion can accomplish Gas model flying began come its own 1932 young man Philadel phia set world record gasoline-powered models two-minute 35-second flight prompted National Aeronautic As sociation sponsor meet sched uled following year 1933 contest same young man won Tex aco Trophy longest-flying Gas mod el Due way rules written also raked two trophies intended Rubber eventsthe now-fa mous Moffett Mulvihill trophies Need less say rules quickly revised 1940 contest New Braunfels TX tracted 25 entrants SAGMAA newer member Joe Borden pictured classy Comet Clipper came away victorious almost-forgotten long-ago event misunderstanding 1933 NAA meet proved divisive Model aviation began polarize two factionspro-Gas anti-Gas Several state legislatures made Gas model flying illegal suspect Hearsts influence largely responsible schism newspaper magnate took stand against Gas Paradoxically man done other promote model avia tion now doing best undermine important branch skillful writer can take facts about weight size airspeed skew lurid scenarios bear little resem blance reality Heating up contro versy stories appeared press telling fire-breathing engines tanks full ex plosive gasoline models tossed wan tonly sky cut loose pilots control could come crashing earth anywhere anytime 1 4-ft-span monster powered two Brown Juniors mounted above other built Bill Hewgley 1940 photo shows ship being launched Orin An derson left Willie Ng Willie also killed flying Hump Burma about 1943 Such stories must have conjured some alarming images typical suburbanite probably visualized himself sitting chair pretending read Popular Mechan ics children feet new rug reading Sunday funnies front ra dio Theyre listening Uncle Bob Just Uncle Bob reads horrible death sen tence Ming Magnificent laying Flash Gordon Professor Zharkov sneaking Dale Arden out Mings Harem happens abominable Gas models crashes through new picture win dow smacks children bursts flame terrible explosion Depression years remember fellow wouldnt have money re place window rug radio may never find out what hap pened Flash Dale professor children all miss course knows what outcome might have such alarmist views Gas model flying gone unchecked Fortunately National Aeronautic Association inter vened NAA organized Gas Model Di vision supported nationwide network Gas Model Chapters regional chap ters intended educate public about model aviation generally cham pion cause promoted contests shows other public displays communities November 1990 75 Toddle McQuatters 1940 beautifui Brown-powered Mk II Clipper Toddle also strong contender Rubber contests Louis Urfurth Mk II Clipper 1940 young son Billy rising star time rubber-powered craft HL Gliders 1941 photo shows 36-in-span Atom 09-powered Buzzard Bombshell being spected family cat model built Buddy Frazier Kits given away premiums subscribing Air Trails magazine subscription kit mere two dollars back Today just license cat would 25 dollars Left Ingenuity work Oliver Pfeii left brother Bill photographed sometime 1941 demonstrating camera placement novative Camera Clipper Right Orin Anderson young man photographed early 1942 displaying Brown Jr-powered Comet Clipper fact its largely due efforts NAA lobby championing model aviation Radio Control models legal today During Forties governments acute wartime need aviation expertise also boosted status model aviation Model ers specializing various branches hobby made themselves available mili tary aircraft production aero research San Antonio TX International Gas Model Airplane Association prompt align itself NAA effort San Antonio Evening News heralded devel opment January 1938 article T D Higgins Zooming Over Airdromes have just informed San An tonio members International Gas Model Airplane Association joining large-scale movement form Gas Model Division National Aeronautic Asso ciation Ralph Pressler president lo cal chapter IGMAA declared National Aeronautic Association seeking model airplane builders members chapter solidly behind move ment expects affiliated early March article went mention Press ler chosen represent San Anto nio Dallas following Saturday meeting called NAA plan two possibly three Gas model contests state during coming season Press ler quoted saying highly likely San Antonio would selected contest sites Gas Model Division write up continued will operated directly un der NAA supervision exercising full con trol over members NAA grants Gas model fliers licenses can revoke violation safety rules Higgins closed remarking permis sion Army Air Corps chapter flying Kelly Field Sunday morn ings test flights attract consid erable attention always well tended San Antonio Society Model Engi neers became Gas Model Chapter National Aeronautic Association March 24 1938 charter members Al fred Person Louis F Ridder Jr Gene Hart mangruber Ralph R Pressler RH Estes Jr Oliver Pfeil William Pfeil Jr PJ Cockrell JJ Cody Jr James E Kessler Jack Harding Carl Jonas Robert Sedgewick Anton Heisler Jr RT Rickard Jr served senior advisors Shortly after its inception club re named itself San Antonio Gas Model Airplane Association SAGMAA no evidence charter changed Well statement wrong its sure promptly corrected Anton Heisler created excellent club logo Which re produced pages about same time antiGas movement finally began weaken Junior Birdmen program shortly came end disbanding Jun ior Birdmen real pity Whether Hearst did out pique still de serves appreciation first promoters model airplane hobby organizer Junior Birdmen project SAGMAA meetings held Model Airplane Shop just few doors Houston Street Broadway shop owned Bill Ollie Pfeil Having begun shoestring two brothers moved location hardware store around block theyd single spartan showcase no engines Broadway location Pfeils created very nice store Later able expand leasing building next door knocking out wall Model Airplane Shop became best hobby shop San Antonio no wonder young Pfeil brothers pretty much lived hobby good businessmen well succeeding bet ter competitors ac complished think identifying customers giving sound advice sought brothers also pro moted contests offering excellent prizes sev eral times year shop became lunchtime visiting place everyone worked town anyone building space free use back room SAGMAA course held its meetings until out grew space moved either Dairyland Bordens Josephine Street became subject joke clouds recollection dairys name Bill Pfeil killed auto acci dent shortly after World War II began 01lie gave up shop full-scale aviation brothers also begun wholesalers hobby supplies number young people drawn model aviation because Bill Ollie Pfeil im possible estimate its surely high cherish own memories Incidentally another source model air craft San Antonio before war toy department Wolff & Marx store excellent collection Scale kits cluding some like Armstrong-Whitworth Quadraplane bought quite rare Ive never seen such kits else dont know Wolff & 76 Model Aviation first SAGMAA reunion took place May 1975 Standing left right Alfred Person Richard Sherman Tom Moore Claude Williams Jerry Schramm MR Hamilton Jerry Heller Ollie Pfeii Sitting left Buddy Frazier provided photo Kneeling mid dle row left right Ralph Pressier Clyde Stokes Jimmy Sommerselt front row left right Bill Hewgley Orin Anderson Percy Cockreii Jimmy Kessler recent SAGMAA reunion December 1965 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training military pilots Just few years later number San Antonio boys partic ipated promotion duplicate filmed action served Army Air Corps Later still some SAG MAA members served Army Air Force United States Air Force like Dutch Sluder strong beginning NAA-SAGMAA alliance Goals met surpassed organiza tional meeting held end 1938 ca pable set officers headed Pressler elected 12-point program adopted 1939 Pressler overloaded work requiring organizational talents both SAGMAA Southwest Gas Model Association SWGMA regional collective NAA Gas Model Division chapters 12-point program included complet ing schedule model development ex perimentation scheduling open-house meet ings educate public about model avia tion improving management flying activities several locations Yes very good year Southwest Gas Model Association met Dallas early 1939 plan years contest schedule first meet slated Abilene May 14 followed San Antonio May 28 Houston June 11 Fort Worth June 25 Mineral Wells July 16 Dallas July 30 Corpus Christi Au gust 13 Waco August 27 Wichita Falls September 3 Austin tentatively scheduled August 13 same day Corpus Christi contest Obviously NAA Gas Model Chapters increased number force Youll notice al case two weeks rest pro vided between contests repair per haps SWGMA 1939 contest season well publicized local merchants ganizations such Exchange Clubs generous prize money fact end 1941 much thousand dollars available prizes SAGMAA coming nearly popular San Anto nio Missions ball club Texas League San Antonio still counted Herb Fisher Bob Rickard Orin Anderson Willie Ng Anton Heisler Percy Cockrell Alfred Person among its prominent model builders 1939 Carl Jonas Jack Harding Bob Sedgewick becoming competi tive though continued sport fly reg ularly Kelly Among newer members Joe Borden JA Carney son Jim Bill Hewgley Clyde Stokes Younger SAGMAA members making Rubber model scene over Thomas Jef ferson High School drill field Jack Goebel WL Vavricka Buddy Frazier 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writing model five flights son took first place Novice spring 1989 contest Marietta GA little over month later Derek took second place first outing Intermediate Cincinnati Stunt trainer looks good air handles smoothly turns well fun fly Build find out Please write questions might have Dale Barry Rt 2 Box 264D2 Harlem GA 30814 Ill glad help SAGMAA/Lehmberg Continued page 120 high school could written off castlekeepers name Cannonball Smith loved put sugar cream mod els eat breakfast Around 1939 some us got talking Can nonball surprised learn lot fliers used high school field SAGMAA members read about activities Express Evening News Light newspapers put plane GUNFIGHTERS * POSITIVE FEEL * USED BY TOP PILOTS * FOR FUTABA AIRTRONIOS JR OTHERS PLEASE SPECIFY RADIO CA RES ADD 625% SALES TAX November 1990 185 IS PROUD JI TO ANNOUNCE THE WORLDS SMALLEST ON-BOARD GLO-SWITCH WIRE DIRECT OR Y INTO ANY RECEIVER OUTPUT INCLUDES REVERSING SWITCH ADJUSTABLE ON POINT AND LED INDICATOR HANDLES 0 TO 12 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Christi meet first big meet Jerry ever entered fact hed building model aircraft less year time week before Corpus Christi meet entered won Novice contest Kelly Field truly rising star Thermal conditions during competi tion Corpus Christi unusual Jerrys airplane caught thermal almost immedi ately after launched went almost out sight wind shifted model returned again went almost out sight again came back time land ing far launch point Com et Zipper flown hour 10 minutes 552 seconds thought NAA record Senior class since Jerry hand launched model achievement couldnt officially acknowl edged An ROG rise-off-ground launch record requirements Needr Stock No _____ ______________ ______ I HANDLING CHARGE H k order act Card order cdo Order troot Aifrooo fh less say meet Jerrys Second place went Dewey Bonbrake Houston boy duration just over 50 minutes another hand-launched record time Open class Some contests included smallbore-engine event Corpus Christi meet Gene Hartmangruber came out top 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Mollenhauer found Alamo Downs race track least five miles away Zippers continued domination meet strengthened hand clamoring rule change Toward end year grapevine seemed have inside track new rule some people published plans designs supposedly created rule mind Typical models Henry Strucks beautiful New Ruler Although Queens NY Henry should have belonged SAGMAA new rule debuted 1941 Though didnt succeed breaking Zipper blitz did manage bend badly 8-ozper-sq-ft wing loading retained engine run reduced 20 seconds clincher however 80-oz-percu-in engine displacement power loading rule magnificent control height model could reach Modelers today argue RC radio assist need look past answer problem too maxes contests Politicians like rest us often forget look history books Back SAGMAA meanwhile public ity program continued build clout Bill Hewgley military Looking BEST Hand-launch Sailplane Culpepper Chuperosa won 1990 NATS HLG class flown Rusty Shaw Featuring new Selig 7037 airfoil kit simply 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Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/11
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Edition: Model Aviation - 1990/11
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Those Days ed Lehmberg Wonder Change thought pioneer Power modelers easy back Thir ties saved early Gas movement being caught cross fire before off ground National Aeronau tic Association fliers own determination 4 mythical pair built wings selves might call first homebuilders certaialy couldnt called MANS FASCINATION flight age- modelers old Daedalus son Icarus the earliest self-taught aerodynam first try soaring through heavens icists perhaps first designer wings feathers wax model airplanes Leonardo da Vinci Left photo taken during th summer oi iu snows Buddy Frazier ieft Richard Sherman working Sherman-designed Rubber job buiit Frazier site lathe north side Jefferson High School driii field very popuiar site ali events except Gas Right photo taken winter 1973 deliberateiy out sequence show what becomes modelers after 35 years hobby Buddy Fra zier holding 1940-vintage Lanzo Stick Richard Sherman winds motor years notwithstanding both look pretty goodi author pictured news article Au gust 15 1937 after having initiated Junior Blrdmen organization spon sored San Antonio Light Hearst newspaper chain Two Outdoor two door competitive meets held year 72 Model Aviation copy original National Aeronautic Association charter NAA seal de signating San Antonio Society Model Engineers Gas Model Chapter NAA names SASME members listed document dated March 24 1938 1938 photo shows Bill Pfeil 36in-span Brat-powered modei weighed 166 oz Bill member 1938 Wakefield team competed France Herb Fisher 1938 Brown-powered Clipper first Clipper appear San Antonio Its floating flight charac teristics caused quite sensation 1938 Leonardos famed drawings flapped wing ornithopters executed around year 1500 show astonishing understand ing dynamics flight day Almost four centuries later models played key role development modern avi ation Samuel Pierpont Langley earliest pioneers build study mmThe second Clipper appear San Antonio Brown Jr-powered ship built Bob Rickard pictured model 1938 Bob race Herb have first Clipper field few days apart competition iature airplanes Langley scientist astronomer served third secre tary Smithsonian Institution built 40 rubber-powered models tween 1887 1895 called aero dromes Wilbur Orville Wright also built models discovering fascinations experimental value firsthand Like originators field Leonardo Langley Wright Brothers worked alone model aviation soli r 1938 winner seen owner Willie Ng appears Berkeley Courier Sportster lowered thrust line probably powered Willies favorite engine Brown Jr tary hobby country began change during late 1920s early 1930s Stirred glamour World War aviators movies such Wings Hells Angels exciting developments aviation re corded almost daily newspapers American public ready model avia tion Recognizing mood entrepreneurs formed small companies offering model building materials some crude kits gossamer-winged models Carl Goldberg boys Chicago turning outstanding flights Newspa pers department stores began organiz ing groups modelers such JordanMarsh Junior Aviator League Pulp magazines called because made newsprint came scene Though carried mainly fiction some pulps included three-view plans solid modelsnot WW contemporaneous aircraft also futuristic designs looked future inciden tally aerodynamicists period dis counted idea space flight certain i,, 4 November 1990 73 Another 1938 photo showing Oliver Pfeil Brown-powered original often flew Kelly Field brother Bill owned popular successful Model Airplane Shop San Antonios Broadway Herb ODell seen 1938 photo GHQ Sportster powered Mighty Midget m Ralph Pressler president SAGMAA 1938 putting cowl place beauti ful Rearwin Speedster may have powered Mighty Midget Ralph gracious ly supplied old club records news clippings used assemble story Left Orin Anderson 17 years old won Arizona State Gas Model Championship 1939 Phoenix Brown-powered Pacific Ace won him another Brown Jr Ohlsson 23 Right refreshment faciiity Keiiy Fieid contest photo probabiy taken 1940 shows ieft Ng Charies Adams Jack Harding Betty Fisher Carl Jonas iooks aii traded shoes Moore props surpass Though seemed no da Vincis day least ex perts resurrected 1898 declaration World Congress Scientists scientific advances late-19th-century group de cided made minor im provements discoveries possi ble newspaper sponsored two Outdoor two Indoor contests annually winners competing sponsors expense national Junior Birdmen Championship San Antonios Texas link Hearst chain San Antonio Light recall several top Birdmen Charlie Adams Fred Cordova Richard Sher man extremely competent events Charlie Fred best known outstanding throwing arms Hand-Launched Glider Dick ex celled Indoor Some years later Dick nar rowly missed making Wakefield team Unlike teenaged peers three young men always ready help out us novice builders just few years junior Go away kid bother sort thing gotten used hearing 15-year-old idols age 11 12 hurt Birdmen divided two class es Junior under 16 Senior under 21 Competition fierce particularly Sen ior contender didnt make town might visit relatives another try again winter small house trailer appeared vacant lot San Antonios south side San Antonio address modeler within eligible enter 1937 best recollection Indoor contest didnt 74 Model Aviation Singie-wheeled models very popuiar San Antonio 1939 Ralph Pressler left Herb Fisher right being assisted HL Shiiier center San Antonio Exchange Ciub getting modeis ready contest sponsored ciub rumor Mr Shiiier ieft set Wizard Oz assist contest compieteiy untrue rockets would never attain necessary ye- Founded famed Hearst Syndicate pub locity escape muzzle velocity lisher William Randolph Hearst Junior SAGMAA members ieft miles per second alsoBirdmen America became largest ofciub another Robert sevenA Sedgewick pictured cadet skeptical aircraft could ever match the groups promoting model aviation during 1939 iast heard speed soundand sure would never Golden Age Flight Hearst captain U S Army Air Corps 1942 summer 1940 search new competition inciuded Stunt event Ohisson 60-powered Cilpper right carried Atom-powered Ciipper Jr aloft both en gines running Ciipper Jr would reisased its pneumatic-controiied cradle go Its own way left Bud Frazier left Lee Sherman pose Ciipper combo Sherman owned Clipper Frazier Ciipper Jr Lee kiiied Burma 1943 win trip championships although believe did win hometown following year name Roy Mar quardt future founder Marquardt Aviation aerospace contrac tor thats still going strong today Theres example what promoting model avia tion can accomplish Gas model flying began come its own 1932 young man Philadel phia set world record gasoline-powered models two-minute 35-second flight prompted National Aeronautic As sociation sponsor meet sched uled following year 1933 contest same young man won Tex aco Trophy longest-flying Gas mod el Due way rules written also raked two trophies intended Rubber eventsthe now-fa mous Moffett Mulvihill trophies Need less say rules quickly revised 1940 contest New Braunfels TX tracted 25 entrants SAGMAA newer member Joe Borden pictured classy Comet Clipper came away victorious almost-forgotten long-ago event misunderstanding 1933 NAA meet proved divisive Model aviation began polarize two factionspro-Gas anti-Gas Several state legislatures made Gas model flying illegal suspect Hearsts influence largely responsible schism newspaper magnate took stand against Gas Paradoxically man done other promote model avia tion now doing best undermine important branch skillful writer can take facts about weight size airspeed skew lurid scenarios bear little resem blance reality Heating up contro versy stories appeared press telling fire-breathing engines tanks full ex plosive gasoline models tossed wan tonly sky cut loose pilots control could come crashing earth anywhere anytime 1 4-ft-span monster powered two Brown Juniors mounted above other built Bill Hewgley 1940 photo shows ship being launched Orin An derson left Willie Ng Willie also killed flying Hump Burma about 1943 Such stories must have conjured some alarming images typical suburbanite probably visualized himself sitting chair pretending read Popular Mechan ics children feet new rug reading Sunday funnies front ra dio Theyre listening Uncle Bob Just Uncle Bob reads horrible death sen tence Ming Magnificent laying Flash Gordon Professor Zharkov sneaking Dale Arden out Mings Harem happens abominable Gas models crashes through new picture win dow smacks children bursts flame terrible explosion Depression years remember fellow wouldnt have money re place window rug radio may never find out what hap pened Flash Dale professor children all miss course knows what outcome might have such alarmist views Gas model flying gone unchecked Fortunately National Aeronautic Association inter vened NAA organized Gas Model Di vision supported nationwide network Gas Model Chapters regional chap ters intended educate public about model aviation generally cham pion cause promoted contests shows other public displays communities November 1990 75 Toddle McQuatters 1940 beautifui Brown-powered Mk II Clipper Toddle also strong contender Rubber contests Louis Urfurth Mk II Clipper 1940 young son Billy rising star time rubber-powered craft HL Gliders 1941 photo shows 36-in-span Atom 09-powered Buzzard Bombshell being spected family cat model built Buddy Frazier Kits given away premiums subscribing Air Trails magazine subscription kit mere two dollars back Today just license cat would 25 dollars Left Ingenuity work Oliver Pfeii left brother Bill photographed sometime 1941 demonstrating camera placement novative Camera Clipper Right Orin Anderson young man photographed early 1942 displaying Brown Jr-powered Comet Clipper fact its largely due efforts NAA lobby championing model aviation Radio Control models legal today During Forties governments acute wartime need aviation expertise also boosted status model aviation Model ers specializing various branches hobby made themselves available mili tary aircraft production aero research San Antonio TX International Gas Model Airplane Association prompt align itself NAA effort San Antonio Evening News heralded devel opment January 1938 article T D Higgins Zooming Over Airdromes have just informed San An tonio members International Gas Model Airplane Association joining large-scale movement form Gas Model Division National Aeronautic Asso ciation Ralph Pressler president lo cal chapter IGMAA declared National Aeronautic Association seeking model airplane builders members chapter solidly behind move ment expects affiliated early March article went mention Press ler chosen represent San Anto nio Dallas following Saturday meeting called NAA plan two possibly three Gas model contests state during coming season Press ler quoted saying highly likely San Antonio would selected contest sites Gas Model Division write up continued will operated directly un der NAA supervision exercising full con trol over members NAA grants Gas model fliers licenses can revoke violation safety rules Higgins closed remarking permis sion Army Air Corps chapter flying Kelly Field Sunday morn ings test flights attract consid erable attention always well tended San Antonio Society Model Engi neers became Gas Model Chapter National Aeronautic Association March 24 1938 charter members Al fred Person Louis F Ridder Jr Gene Hart mangruber Ralph R Pressler RH Estes Jr Oliver Pfeil William Pfeil Jr PJ Cockrell JJ Cody Jr James E Kessler Jack Harding Carl Jonas Robert Sedgewick Anton Heisler Jr RT Rickard Jr served senior advisors Shortly after its inception club re named itself San Antonio Gas Model Airplane Association SAGMAA no evidence charter changed Well statement wrong its sure promptly corrected Anton Heisler created excellent club logo Which re produced pages about same time antiGas movement finally began weaken Junior Birdmen program shortly came end disbanding Jun ior Birdmen real pity Whether Hearst did out pique still de serves appreciation first promoters model airplane hobby organizer Junior Birdmen project SAGMAA meetings held Model Airplane Shop just few doors Houston Street Broadway shop owned Bill Ollie Pfeil Having begun shoestring two brothers moved location hardware store around block theyd single spartan showcase no engines Broadway location Pfeils created very nice store Later able expand leasing building next door knocking out wall Model Airplane Shop became best hobby shop San Antonio no wonder young Pfeil brothers pretty much lived hobby good businessmen well succeeding bet ter competitors ac complished think identifying customers giving sound advice sought brothers also pro moted contests offering excellent prizes sev eral times year shop became lunchtime visiting place everyone worked town anyone building space free use back room SAGMAA course held its meetings until out grew space moved either Dairyland Bordens Josephine Street became subject joke clouds recollection dairys name Bill Pfeil killed auto acci dent shortly after World War II began 01lie gave up shop full-scale aviation brothers also begun wholesalers hobby supplies number young people drawn model aviation because Bill Ollie Pfeil im possible estimate its surely high cherish own memories Incidentally another source model air craft San Antonio before war toy department Wolff & Marx store excellent collection Scale kits cluding some like Armstrong-Whitworth Quadraplane bought quite rare Ive never seen such kits else dont know Wolff & 76 Model Aviation first SAGMAA reunion took place May 1975 Standing left right Alfred Person Richard Sherman Tom Moore Claude Williams Jerry Schramm MR Hamilton Jerry Heller Ollie Pfeii Sitting left Buddy Frazier provided photo Kneeling mid dle row left right Ralph Pressier Clyde Stokes Jimmy Sommerselt front row left right Bill Hewgley Orin Anderson Percy Cockreii Jimmy Kessler recent SAGMAA reunion December 1965 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wheels propellers spark plugs gen eral supplies scratch-built Rubber model three-to-four-foot span cost about dollar half including rubber seven-foot-span gassie would run about $10 including everything except engine fairly good engine ran around $11 best available went just over $21 put prices context typ ical draftsman model builders earned living married two children making less $30 week Ralph Pressler president SAG MAA some years competi tively locally visible International Gas Model Association chapter back ground made shift high gear part new NAA division quite easy An other plus Presslers election first president newly named group new NAA projects ambitious division fortunate having young mans s exceptional talents leader ship organization promotional yenRUMPLER CIV 83 Plans $3100 Shipping $240 1/6th Scale SE5a 80 Piano $25 00 $500 Scale CAMEL 84 132 Plans $4200 & $4500 Shipping $240 Accessories Available SOP WIll-I PUP 80 & 70 Plans $4200 & $4500 Shipping $2400 Acceosorico 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60ABC22W/CARB17000$15000 Corbin presented kit Super-Ace trophy award Fort Worth meet featured single limited engine run event Out 52 en trants first through sixth places lined up follows Bob Rutledge Houston age 17 3 mm 505 sec Ed Martin San Anto nio age 20 3 mm 265 sec Sid Smart Dallas age 31 2 mm 49 sec Herb Fish er San Antonio age 28 2 mm 465 sec Bob Rickard San Antonio age 22 2 mm 295 sec Willie Ng San Antonio age 14 2 mm 295 sec Obviously San Antonio boys forces reckoned results also showed age wasnt necessary win craft seemed fairly well matched performance Although no note made engine run probably 30 seconds since 45-second run wasnt especially popular Texas newspaper account included amusing anecdote Martins plane landed horse grazing nearby horse kicked plane piec es Martins record remained intact An estimated 7000 10000 spectators watched 70 contestants perform San Antonio meet held fall Kelly Field As Fort Worth format involved limited engine run event age groups Trophies awarded 10th place First place went Herb Fisher fellow San Antonio residents Orin Ander son Bob Rickard taking sixth sev enth places respectively Herbs wife Betty Fisher won Womens Event Ever promoter Ralph Pressler came up some intriguing crowd pleasers well-attended contest PA nouncer almost entire day Pressler asked crowd applaud something unintentional happened field end day gave award con testant received loudest ap plause improvised award went John Udden Corpus Christi newspa per account didnt say what crowd applauded him Wrong Way Corrigan event other innovation Pressler took timely advantage popularity certain fuddled navigator named Corrigan gentleman believing himself flying over Kansas few other miscellaneous states union really crossed Atlantic Twenty-two contestants entered Wrong Way Corrigan placed models line facing wind withdrew another line 10 ft rear signal run machines later become Le Mans Start start en gines Thirty seconds later another sig nal fliers release models expected zoom up wind blown downwind first cross line 100 ft downwind win ner Needless say some colli sions takeoff As far crowd concerned case few Christians lions dust settled Bob Rickard San Antonio emerged fearless winner Bob also won first Austin Willie Ng did same Dallas Gene Hart mangruber came fourth Dallas meet 102 entrants estimated 10000 spectators San Antonio boys prowess wasnt limited fields Texas Bill Pfeil won place US Lord Wakefield team 1938 NAA Nationals fellow resi dent Richard Sherman came close Bill went France compete British trophy captured another US team member Jim Cahill Lafay Continued page 120 _______________________ U PIPER 50-75 R 74 IN WING FOAMAIRE 10 SPAN 30-33 LBSCCSPAN 6-7 LBS 45-60 POWER10 SPAN 19- L o-42 CC POWER 5-10 LB PAYLOAD OPTIONAL SPREADER4 CH PLY FOAM AND BALSA WOOD CHOOSE 3 OR 4 OH SLOW AND STABLE KIT $26995 SPDKIT$1995 T $69953 CH $14995 4 CH $16495 SEND $100 FOR CATALOGRT 1 NEODESHA KS 66757 OF SAC KITS AND ACC 325-2821 FREE 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tal avoid slippage displacement L With both long bolts secure drill out spar hole notch finish file Push short stub length spar material ensure against shifting long bolt ends can trimmed off flush nut convenience M Insert least spar stub se curity youre ready saw ribs rough contour Keep bit oversize never undersize N The rough-cut rib stack can now sanded final shape trick both saw ing sanding keep stack per fectly vertical canting Good light ing helps Listen carefully sound sander hitting metal have itdurable accurate metal templates will ensure perfect wing airfoil hand future repair reproduction SAGMAAILehmberg Continued page 78 ette IN contest received good cover age San Antonio Evening News Read ers paper learned team mem bers hosted King Leopold m Belgium attending another contest country SAGMAA also assisted promoting movie Men Wings included parade float static dynamic dem onstration Stinson Field San Antonio municipal airport As aviation movie buffs will recall Wings about training military pilots Just few years later number San Antonio boys partic ipated promotion duplicate filmed action served Army Air Corps Later still some SAG MAA members served Army Air Force United States Air Force like Dutch Sluder strong beginning NAA-SAGMAA alliance Goals met surpassed organiza tional meeting held end 1938 ca pable set officers headed Pressler elected 12-point program adopted 1939 Pressler overloaded work requiring organizational talents both SAGMAA Southwest Gas Model Association SWGMA regional collective NAA Gas Model Division chapters 12-point program included complet ing schedule model development ex perimentation scheduling open-house meet ings educate public about model avia tion improving management flying activities several locations Yes very good year Southwest Gas Model Association met Dallas early 1939 plan years contest schedule first meet slated Abilene May 14 followed San Antonio May 28 Houston June 11 Fort Worth June 25 Mineral Wells July 16 Dallas July 30 Corpus Christi Au gust 13 Waco August 27 Wichita Falls September 3 Austin tentatively scheduled August 13 same day Corpus Christi contest Obviously NAA Gas Model Chapters increased number force Youll notice al case two weeks rest pro vided between contests repair per haps SWGMA 1939 contest season well publicized local merchants ganizations such Exchange Clubs generous prize money fact end 1941 much thousand dollars available prizes SAGMAA coming nearly popular San Anto nio Missions ball club Texas League San Antonio still counted Herb Fisher Bob Rickard Orin Anderson Willie Ng Anton Heisler Percy Cockrell Alfred Person among its prominent model builders 1939 Carl Jonas Jack Harding Bob Sedgewick becoming competi tive though continued sport fly reg ularly Kelly Among newer members Joe Borden JA Carney son Jim Bill Hewgley Clyde Stokes Younger SAGMAA members making Rubber model scene over Thomas Jef ferson High School drill field Jack Goebel WL Vavricka Buddy Frazier Toddy McQuatters Hilton Mollenhauer Charles Barron Alfred Lehmberg large mowed field single small tree center excellent Rubber Free Flight tree course attracted models like magnet held con tests prevailing wind prevailed south un less found lift models generally stayed over field lift planes usu ally went quite high After passing over few nearby houses open coun try mesquite cactus diamondbacks seemed stretch way North Pole Before got know keeper castle lived campus fam ily ships landing roof Continued page 185 120 Model Aviation THE LEADER IN COMPETITION PROPELLERS 4 fI RC PYLON RACING SERIES 500 DIAPITCH PRICE 7SN 5N 8I67A7I8 SERIES 400C 86/,677/a7 977I7 W WIDE BLADE EW EXTRA WIDE N NARROW flap joiner center trailing edge Apply slow-curing epoxy cen ter wing slide way body Continually check alignment epoxy sets making certain wing 90 body viewed front above After wing has dried follow same steps stabilizer sure stab parallel wing equidis tant hinge line hinge line way across Install 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writing model five flights son took first place Novice spring 1989 contest Marietta GA little over month later Derek took second place first outing Intermediate Cincinnati Stunt trainer looks good air handles smoothly turns well fun fly Build find out Please write questions might have Dale Barry Rt 2 Box 264D2 Harlem GA 30814 Ill glad help SAGMAA/Lehmberg Continued page 120 high school could written off castlekeepers name Cannonball Smith loved put sugar cream mod els eat breakfast Around 1939 some us got talking Can nonball surprised learn lot fliers used high school field SAGMAA members read about activities Express Evening News Light newspapers put plane GUNFIGHTERS * POSITIVE FEEL * USED BY TOP PILOTS * FOR FUTABA AIRTRONIOS JR OTHERS PLEASE SPECIFY RADIO CA RES ADD 625% SALES TAX November 1990 185 IS PROUD JI TO ANNOUNCE THE WORLDS SMALLEST ON-BOARD GLO-SWITCH WIRE DIRECT OR Y INTO ANY RECEIVER OUTPUT INCLUDES REVERSING SWITCH ADJUSTABLE ON POINT AND LED INDICATOR HANDLES 0 TO 12 VOLTS AT UP TO 10 AMPS Tac auadad4 aC 44f&f CALL OR WRITE FOR MORE INFO JOMAR PRODUCTS513-474-0985ACTUAL 2028 Knightsbridge Dr Cinti OH 45244 SIZE roof would knock Cannonballs door hed take us roof model re trieval See what publicity public aware ness clout can model builder newspapers period no less hungry colorful incidents jazz up stories journalists today 1939 San Antonio meet won Sid Smart DallasSan Antonio couldnt win em J Carneys model sliced half propeller another As newspaper account related determined Mr Carney took ship home repaired returned finish remaining flights highly successful contest way 10000 spectators cheering over 100 contestants Ray Math ews also Dallas captured second place Doug Porter Corpus Christi came third San Antonios Alfred Person took fourth San Antonio boys scored two other tri umphs 1939 Orin Anderson won Ar izona State Championship Phoenix fly ing beautiful Pacific Ace powered Brown Junior Jerry Heller established almost world record 1939 Cor pus Christi meet first big meet Jerry ever entered fact hed building model aircraft less year time week before Corpus Christi meet entered won Novice contest Kelly Field truly rising star Thermal conditions during competi tion Corpus Christi unusual Jerrys airplane caught thermal almost immedi ately after launched went almost out sight wind shifted model returned again went almost out sight again came back time land ing far launch point Com et Zipper flown hour 10 minutes 552 seconds thought NAA record Senior class since Jerry hand launched model achievement couldnt officially acknowl edged An ROG rise-off-ground launch record requirements Needr Stock No _____ ______________ ______ I HANDLING CHARGE H k order act Card order cdo Order troot Aifrooo fh less say meet Jerrys Second place went Dewey Bonbrake Houston boy duration just over 50 minutes another hand-launched record time Open class Some contests included smallbore-engine event Corpus Christi meet Gene Hartmangruber came out top shuffle intended enter event model got snagged power line test flight early day didnt come down till award time breeze came up Toward end 1939 Hitler intensi fled war machine Europe model builders States having own microwar over what about Zipper blitz Carl Goldbergs celebrated model shaking up contest scene year proving absolutely unbeatable meet after meet could almost count Zip pers predict winnersexcept course flew out-of-sight lost Things certainly changed less three years Zipper blitz no however 1939 still good year 1940 rapid growth within NAAs Gas Model Division indicated need separate group control di rect operation model airplanes United States new organization formed beginning year af filiated both NAA Federa tion Aeronautique Internationale called Academy Model Aeronautics Model airplanes come age two-day static show auditorium Express Publishing Company kicked off publicity program May 1940 contest season Nearly 100 models various stages construction dis played Also open 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Those Days ed Lehmberg Wonder Change thought pioneer Power modelers easy back Thir ties saved early Gas movement being caught cross fire before off ground National Aeronau tic Association fliers own determination 4 mythical pair built wings selves might call first homebuilders certaialy couldnt called MANS FASCINATION flight age- modelers old Daedalus son Icarus the earliest self-taught aerodynam first try soaring through heavens icists perhaps first designer wings feathers wax model airplanes Leonardo da Vinci Left photo taken during th summer oi iu snows Buddy Frazier ieft Richard Sherman working Sherman-designed Rubber job buiit Frazier site lathe north side Jefferson High School driii field very popuiar site ali events except Gas Right photo taken winter 1973 deliberateiy out sequence show what becomes modelers after 35 years hobby Buddy Fra zier holding 1940-vintage Lanzo Stick Richard Sherman winds motor years notwithstanding both look pretty goodi author pictured news article Au gust 15 1937 after having initiated Junior Blrdmen organization spon sored San Antonio Light Hearst newspaper chain Two Outdoor two door competitive meets held year 72 Model Aviation copy original National Aeronautic Association charter NAA seal de signating San Antonio Society Model Engineers Gas Model Chapter NAA names SASME members listed document dated March 24 1938 1938 photo shows Bill Pfeil 36in-span Brat-powered modei weighed 166 oz Bill member 1938 Wakefield team competed France Herb Fisher 1938 Brown-powered Clipper first Clipper appear San Antonio Its floating flight charac teristics caused quite sensation 1938 Leonardos famed drawings flapped wing ornithopters executed around year 1500 show astonishing understand ing dynamics flight day Almost four centuries later models played key role development modern avi ation Samuel Pierpont Langley earliest pioneers build study mmThe second Clipper appear San Antonio Brown Jr-powered ship built Bob Rickard pictured model 1938 Bob race Herb have first Clipper field few days apart competition iature airplanes Langley scientist astronomer served third secre tary Smithsonian Institution built 40 rubber-powered models tween 1887 1895 called aero dromes Wilbur Orville Wright also built models discovering fascinations experimental value firsthand Like originators field Leonardo Langley Wright Brothers worked alone model aviation soli r 1938 winner seen owner Willie Ng appears Berkeley Courier Sportster lowered thrust line probably powered Willies favorite engine Brown Jr tary hobby country began change during late 1920s early 1930s Stirred glamour World War aviators movies such Wings Hells Angels exciting developments aviation re corded almost daily newspapers American public ready model avia tion Recognizing mood entrepreneurs formed small companies offering model building materials some crude kits gossamer-winged models Carl Goldberg boys Chicago turning outstanding flights Newspa pers department stores began organiz ing groups modelers such JordanMarsh Junior Aviator League Pulp magazines called because made newsprint came scene Though carried mainly fiction some pulps included three-view plans solid modelsnot WW contemporaneous aircraft also futuristic designs looked future inciden tally aerodynamicists period dis counted idea space flight certain i,, 4 November 1990 73 Another 1938 photo showing Oliver Pfeil Brown-powered original often flew Kelly Field brother Bill owned popular successful Model Airplane Shop San Antonios Broadway Herb ODell seen 1938 photo GHQ Sportster powered Mighty Midget m Ralph Pressler president SAGMAA 1938 putting cowl place beauti ful Rearwin Speedster may have powered Mighty Midget Ralph gracious ly supplied old club records news clippings used assemble story Left Orin Anderson 17 years old won Arizona State Gas Model Championship 1939 Phoenix Brown-powered Pacific Ace won him another Brown Jr Ohlsson 23 Right refreshment faciiity Keiiy Fieid contest photo probabiy taken 1940 shows ieft Ng Charies Adams Jack Harding Betty Fisher Carl Jonas iooks aii traded shoes Moore props surpass Though seemed no da Vincis day least ex perts resurrected 1898 declaration World Congress Scientists scientific advances late-19th-century group de cided made minor im provements discoveries possi ble newspaper sponsored two Outdoor two Indoor contests annually winners competing sponsors expense national Junior Birdmen Championship San Antonios Texas link Hearst chain San Antonio Light recall several top Birdmen Charlie Adams Fred Cordova Richard Sher man extremely competent events Charlie Fred best known outstanding throwing arms Hand-Launched Glider Dick ex celled Indoor Some years later Dick nar rowly missed making Wakefield team Unlike teenaged peers three young men always ready help out us novice builders just few years junior Go away kid bother sort thing gotten used hearing 15-year-old idols age 11 12 hurt Birdmen divided two class es Junior under 16 Senior under 21 Competition fierce particularly Sen ior contender didnt make town might visit relatives another try again winter small house trailer appeared vacant lot San Antonios south side San Antonio address modeler within eligible enter 1937 best recollection Indoor contest didnt 74 Model Aviation Singie-wheeled models very popuiar San Antonio 1939 Ralph Pressler left Herb Fisher right being assisted HL Shiiier center San Antonio Exchange Ciub getting modeis ready contest sponsored ciub rumor Mr Shiiier ieft set Wizard Oz assist contest compieteiy untrue rockets would never attain necessary ye- Founded famed Hearst Syndicate pub locity escape muzzle velocity lisher William Randolph Hearst Junior SAGMAA members ieft miles per second alsoBirdmen America became largest ofciub another Robert sevenA Sedgewick pictured cadet skeptical aircraft could ever match the groups promoting model aviation during 1939 iast heard speed soundand sure would never Golden Age Flight Hearst captain U S Army Air Corps 1942 summer 1940 search new competition inciuded Stunt event Ohisson 60-powered Cilpper right carried Atom-powered Ciipper Jr aloft both en gines running Ciipper Jr would reisased its pneumatic-controiied cradle go Its own way left Bud Frazier left Lee Sherman pose Ciipper combo Sherman owned Clipper Frazier Ciipper Jr Lee kiiied Burma 1943 win trip championships although believe did win hometown following year name Roy Mar quardt future founder Marquardt Aviation aerospace contrac tor thats still going strong today Theres example what promoting model avia tion can accomplish Gas model flying began come its own 1932 young man Philadel phia set world record gasoline-powered models two-minute 35-second flight prompted National Aeronautic As sociation sponsor meet sched uled following year 1933 contest same young man won Tex aco Trophy longest-flying Gas mod el Due way rules written also raked two trophies intended Rubber eventsthe now-fa mous Moffett Mulvihill trophies Need less say rules quickly revised 1940 contest New Braunfels TX tracted 25 entrants SAGMAA newer member Joe Borden pictured classy Comet Clipper came away victorious almost-forgotten long-ago event misunderstanding 1933 NAA meet proved divisive Model aviation began polarize two factionspro-Gas anti-Gas Several state legislatures made Gas model flying illegal suspect Hearsts influence largely responsible schism newspaper magnate took stand against Gas Paradoxically man done other promote model avia tion now doing best undermine important branch skillful writer can take facts about weight size airspeed skew lurid scenarios bear little resem blance reality Heating up contro versy stories appeared press telling fire-breathing engines tanks full ex plosive gasoline models tossed wan tonly sky cut loose pilots control could come crashing earth anywhere anytime 1 4-ft-span monster powered two Brown Juniors mounted above other built Bill Hewgley 1940 photo shows ship being launched Orin An derson left Willie Ng Willie also killed flying Hump Burma about 1943 Such stories must have conjured some alarming images typical suburbanite probably visualized himself sitting chair pretending read Popular Mechan ics children feet new rug reading Sunday funnies front ra dio Theyre listening Uncle Bob Just Uncle Bob reads horrible death sen tence Ming Magnificent laying Flash Gordon Professor Zharkov sneaking Dale Arden out Mings Harem happens abominable Gas models crashes through new picture win dow smacks children bursts flame terrible explosion Depression years remember fellow wouldnt have money re place window rug radio may never find out what hap pened Flash Dale professor children all miss course knows what outcome might have such alarmist views Gas model flying gone unchecked Fortunately National Aeronautic Association inter vened NAA organized Gas Model Di vision supported nationwide network Gas Model Chapters regional chap ters intended educate public about model aviation generally cham pion cause promoted contests shows other public displays communities November 1990 75 Toddle McQuatters 1940 beautifui Brown-powered Mk II Clipper Toddle also strong contender Rubber contests Louis Urfurth Mk II Clipper 1940 young son Billy rising star time rubber-powered craft HL Gliders 1941 photo shows 36-in-span Atom 09-powered Buzzard Bombshell being spected family cat model built Buddy Frazier Kits given away premiums subscribing Air Trails magazine subscription kit mere two dollars back Today just license cat would 25 dollars Left Ingenuity work Oliver Pfeii left brother Bill photographed sometime 1941 demonstrating camera placement novative Camera Clipper Right Orin Anderson young man photographed early 1942 displaying Brown Jr-powered Comet Clipper fact its largely due efforts NAA lobby championing model aviation Radio Control models legal today During Forties governments acute wartime need aviation expertise also boosted status model aviation Model ers specializing various branches hobby made themselves available mili tary aircraft production aero research San Antonio TX International Gas Model Airplane Association prompt align itself NAA effort San Antonio Evening News heralded devel opment January 1938 article T D Higgins Zooming Over Airdromes have just informed San An tonio members International Gas Model Airplane Association joining large-scale movement form Gas Model Division National Aeronautic Asso ciation Ralph Pressler president lo cal chapter IGMAA declared National Aeronautic Association seeking model airplane builders members chapter solidly behind move ment expects affiliated early March article went mention Press ler chosen represent San Anto nio Dallas following Saturday meeting called NAA plan two possibly three Gas model contests state during coming season Press ler quoted saying highly likely San Antonio would selected contest sites Gas Model Division write up continued will operated directly un der NAA supervision exercising full con trol over members NAA grants Gas model fliers licenses can revoke violation safety rules Higgins closed remarking permis sion Army Air Corps chapter flying Kelly Field Sunday morn ings test flights attract consid erable attention always well tended San Antonio Society Model Engi neers became Gas Model Chapter National Aeronautic Association March 24 1938 charter members Al fred Person Louis F Ridder Jr Gene Hart mangruber Ralph R Pressler RH Estes Jr Oliver Pfeil William Pfeil Jr PJ Cockrell JJ Cody Jr James E Kessler Jack Harding Carl Jonas Robert Sedgewick Anton Heisler Jr RT Rickard Jr served senior advisors Shortly after its inception club re named itself San Antonio Gas Model Airplane Association SAGMAA no evidence charter changed Well statement wrong its sure promptly corrected Anton Heisler created excellent club logo Which re produced pages about same time antiGas movement finally began weaken Junior Birdmen program shortly came end disbanding Jun ior Birdmen real pity Whether Hearst did out pique still de serves appreciation first promoters model airplane hobby organizer Junior Birdmen project SAGMAA meetings held Model Airplane Shop just few doors Houston Street Broadway shop owned Bill Ollie Pfeil Having begun shoestring two brothers moved location hardware store around block theyd single spartan showcase no engines Broadway location Pfeils created very nice store Later able expand leasing building next door knocking out wall Model Airplane Shop became best hobby shop San Antonio no wonder young Pfeil brothers pretty much lived hobby good businessmen well succeeding bet ter competitors ac complished think identifying customers giving sound advice sought brothers also pro moted contests offering excellent prizes sev eral times year shop became lunchtime visiting place everyone worked town anyone building space free use back room SAGMAA course held its meetings until out grew space moved either Dairyland Bordens Josephine Street became subject joke clouds recollection dairys name Bill Pfeil killed auto acci dent shortly after World War II began 01lie gave up shop full-scale aviation brothers also begun wholesalers hobby supplies number young people drawn model aviation because Bill Ollie Pfeil im possible estimate its surely high cherish own memories Incidentally another source model air craft San Antonio before war toy department Wolff & Marx store excellent collection Scale kits cluding some like Armstrong-Whitworth Quadraplane bought quite rare Ive never seen such kits else dont know Wolff & 76 Model Aviation first SAGMAA reunion took place May 1975 Standing left right Alfred Person Richard Sherman Tom Moore Claude Williams Jerry Schramm MR Hamilton Jerry Heller Ollie Pfeii Sitting left Buddy Frazier provided photo Kneeling mid dle row left right Ralph Pressier Clyde Stokes Jimmy Sommerselt front row left right Bill Hewgley Orin Anderson Percy Cockreii Jimmy Kessler recent SAGMAA reunion December 1965 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60ABC22W/CARB17000$15000 Corbin presented kit Super-Ace trophy award Fort Worth meet featured single limited engine run event Out 52 en trants first through sixth places lined up follows Bob Rutledge Houston age 17 3 mm 505 sec Ed Martin San Anto nio age 20 3 mm 265 sec Sid Smart Dallas age 31 2 mm 49 sec Herb Fish er San Antonio age 28 2 mm 465 sec Bob Rickard San Antonio age 22 2 mm 295 sec Willie Ng San Antonio age 14 2 mm 295 sec Obviously San Antonio boys forces reckoned results also showed age wasnt necessary win craft seemed fairly well matched performance Although no note made engine run probably 30 seconds since 45-second run wasnt especially popular Texas newspaper account included amusing anecdote Martins plane landed horse grazing nearby horse kicked plane piec es Martins record remained intact An estimated 7000 10000 spectators watched 70 contestants perform San Antonio meet held fall Kelly Field As Fort Worth format involved limited engine run event age groups Trophies 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models expected zoom up wind blown downwind first cross line 100 ft downwind win ner Needless say some colli sions takeoff As far crowd concerned case few Christians lions dust settled Bob Rickard San Antonio emerged fearless winner Bob also won first Austin Willie Ng did same Dallas Gene Hart mangruber came fourth Dallas meet 102 entrants estimated 10000 spectators San Antonio boys prowess wasnt limited fields Texas Bill Pfeil won place US Lord Wakefield team 1938 NAA Nationals fellow resi dent Richard Sherman came close Bill went France compete British trophy captured another US team member Jim Cahill Lafay Continued page 120 _______________________ U PIPER 50-75 R 74 IN WING FOAMAIRE 10 SPAN 30-33 LBSCCSPAN 6-7 LBS 45-60 POWER10 SPAN 19- L o-42 CC POWER 5-10 LB PAYLOAD OPTIONAL SPREADER4 CH PLY FOAM AND BALSA WOOD CHOOSE 3 OR 4 OH SLOW AND STABLE KIT $26995 SPDKIT$1995 T $69953 CH $14995 4 CH $16495 SEND $100 FOR CATALOGRT 1 NEODESHA KS 66757 OF SAC KITS AND ACC 325-2821 FREE 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training military pilots Just few years later number San Antonio boys partic ipated promotion duplicate filmed action served Army Air Corps Later still some SAG MAA members served Army Air Force United States Air Force like Dutch Sluder strong beginning NAA-SAGMAA alliance Goals met surpassed organiza tional meeting held end 1938 ca pable set officers headed Pressler elected 12-point program adopted 1939 Pressler overloaded work requiring organizational talents both SAGMAA Southwest Gas Model Association SWGMA regional collective NAA Gas Model Division chapters 12-point program included complet ing schedule model development ex perimentation scheduling open-house meet ings educate public about model avia tion improving management flying activities several locations Yes very good year Southwest Gas Model Association met Dallas early 1939 plan years contest schedule first meet slated Abilene May 14 followed San Antonio May 28 Houston June 11 Fort Worth June 25 Mineral Wells July 16 Dallas July 30 Corpus Christi Au gust 13 Waco August 27 Wichita Falls September 3 Austin tentatively scheduled August 13 same day Corpus Christi contest Obviously NAA Gas Model Chapters increased number force Youll notice al case two weeks rest pro vided between contests repair per haps SWGMA 1939 contest season well publicized local merchants ganizations such Exchange Clubs generous prize money fact end 1941 much thousand dollars available prizes SAGMAA coming nearly popular San Anto nio Missions ball club Texas League San Antonio still counted Herb Fisher Bob Rickard Orin Anderson Willie Ng Anton Heisler Percy Cockrell Alfred Person among its prominent model builders 1939 Carl Jonas Jack Harding Bob Sedgewick becoming competi tive though continued sport fly reg ularly Kelly Among newer members Joe Borden JA Carney son Jim Bill Hewgley Clyde Stokes Younger SAGMAA members making Rubber model scene over Thomas Jef ferson High School drill field Jack Goebel WL Vavricka Buddy Frazier Toddy McQuatters Hilton Mollenhauer Charles Barron Alfred Lehmberg large mowed field single small tree center excellent Rubber Free Flight tree course attracted models like magnet held con tests prevailing wind prevailed south un less found lift models generally stayed over field lift planes usu ally went quite high After passing over few nearby houses open coun try mesquite cactus diamondbacks seemed stretch way North Pole Before got know keeper castle lived campus fam ily ships landing roof Continued page 185 120 Model Aviation THE LEADER IN COMPETITION PROPELLERS 4 fI RC PYLON RACING SERIES 500 DIAPITCH PRICE 7SN 5N 8I67A7I8 SERIES 400C 86/,677/a7 977I7 W WIDE BLADE EW EXTRA WIDE N NARROW flap joiner center trailing edge Apply slow-curing epoxy cen ter wing slide way body Continually check alignment epoxy sets making certain wing 90 body viewed front above After wing has dried follow same steps stabilizer sure stab parallel wing equidis tant hinge line hinge line way across Install 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writing model five flights son took first place Novice spring 1989 contest Marietta GA little over month later Derek took second place first outing Intermediate Cincinnati Stunt trainer looks good air handles smoothly turns well fun fly Build find out Please write questions might have Dale Barry Rt 2 Box 264D2 Harlem GA 30814 Ill glad help SAGMAA/Lehmberg Continued page 120 high school could written off castlekeepers name Cannonball Smith loved put sugar cream mod els eat breakfast Around 1939 some us got talking Can nonball surprised learn lot fliers used high school field SAGMAA members read about activities Express Evening News Light newspapers put plane GUNFIGHTERS * POSITIVE FEEL * USED BY TOP PILOTS * FOR FUTABA AIRTRONIOS JR OTHERS PLEASE SPECIFY RADIO CA RES ADD 625% SALES TAX November 1990 185 IS PROUD JI TO ANNOUNCE THE WORLDS SMALLEST ON-BOARD GLO-SWITCH WIRE DIRECT OR Y INTO ANY RECEIVER OUTPUT INCLUDES REVERSING SWITCH ADJUSTABLE ON POINT AND LED INDICATOR HANDLES 0 TO 12 VOLTS AT UP TO 10 AMPS Tac auadad4 aC 44f&f CALL OR WRITE FOR MORE INFO JOMAR PRODUCTS513-474-0985ACTUAL 2028 Knightsbridge Dr Cinti OH 45244 SIZE roof would knock Cannonballs door hed take us roof model re trieval See what publicity public aware ness clout can model builder newspapers period no less hungry colorful incidents jazz up stories journalists today 1939 San Antonio meet won Sid Smart DallasSan Antonio couldnt win em J Carneys model sliced half propeller another As newspaper account related determined Mr Carney took ship home repaired returned finish remaining flights highly successful contest way 10000 spectators cheering over 100 contestants Ray Math ews also Dallas captured second place Doug Porter Corpus Christi came third San Antonios Alfred Person took fourth San Antonio boys scored two other tri umphs 1939 Orin Anderson won Ar izona State Championship Phoenix fly ing beautiful Pacific Ace powered Brown Junior Jerry Heller established almost world record 1939 Cor pus Christi meet first big meet Jerry ever entered fact hed building model aircraft less year time week before Corpus Christi meet entered won Novice contest Kelly Field truly rising star Thermal conditions during competi tion Corpus Christi unusual Jerrys airplane caught thermal almost immedi ately after launched went almost out sight wind shifted model returned again went almost out sight again came back time land ing far launch point Com et Zipper flown hour 10 minutes 552 seconds thought NAA record Senior class since Jerry hand launched model achievement couldnt officially acknowl edged An ROG rise-off-ground launch record requirements Needr Stock No _____ ______________ ______ I HANDLING CHARGE H k order act Card order cdo Order troot Aifrooo fh less say meet Jerrys Second place went Dewey Bonbrake Houston boy duration just over 50 minutes another hand-launched record time Open class Some contests included smallbore-engine event Corpus Christi meet Gene Hartmangruber came out top shuffle intended enter event model got snagged power line test flight early day didnt come down till award time breeze came up Toward end 1939 Hitler intensi fled war machine Europe model builders States having own microwar over what about Zipper blitz Carl Goldbergs celebrated model shaking up contest scene year proving absolutely unbeatable meet after meet could almost count Zip pers predict winnersexcept course flew out-of-sight lost Things certainly changed less three years Zipper blitz no however 1939 still good year 1940 rapid growth within NAAs Gas Model Division indicated need separate group control di rect operation model airplanes United States new organization formed beginning year af filiated both NAA Federa tion Aeronautique Internationale called Academy Model Aeronautics Model airplanes come age two-day static show auditorium Express Publishing Company kicked off publicity program May 1940 contest season Nearly 100 models various stages construction dis played Also open 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outstanding job 137 entrants meet ac tually ended 30 minutes ahead schedule Incredulous may sound todays contest managers model weighed just prior flight Heres way sys tem worked ready fly ad vised scheduler put card board its turn third line called expected ready werent card marked attempt time before point could have card removed out penalty Assuming ready plane weighed placed ready area available timer accompanied line After placing plane ground allowed three minutes start engine get airborne engine wouldnt start card marked attempt started got air borne three minutes allotted launching problems still board flight less three minutes engine run greater defined 45 seconds unless Contest Director reduced card marked attempt Harsh rules Maybe net effect us drew gun until going shoot ew would fire certainly didnt have sandbaggers Zippers out force 1940 meet Though few other designs competitive Goldberg model su preme Eight models lost day returned shortly after meet owned Hilton Mollenhauer found Alamo Downs race track least five miles away Zippers continued domination meet strengthened hand clamoring rule change Toward end year grapevine seemed have inside track new rule some people published plans designs supposedly created rule mind Typical models Henry Strucks beautiful New Ruler Although Queens NY Henry should have belonged SAGMAA new rule debuted 1941 Though didnt succeed breaking Zipper blitz did manage bend badly 8-ozper-sq-ft wing loading retained engine run reduced 20 seconds clincher however 80-oz-percu-in engine displacement power loading rule magnificent control height model could reach Modelers today argue RC radio assist need look past answer problem too maxes contests Politicians like rest us often forget look history books Back SAGMAA meanwhile public ity program continued build clout Bill Hewgley military Looking BEST Hand-launch Sailplane Culpepper Chuperosa won 1990 NATS HLG class flown Rusty Shaw Featuring new Selig 7037 airfoil kit simply 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Those Days ed Lehmberg Wonder Change thought pioneer Power modelers easy back Thir ties saved early Gas movement being caught cross fire before off ground National Aeronau tic Association fliers own determination 4 mythical pair built wings selves might call first homebuilders certaialy couldnt called MANS FASCINATION flight age- modelers old Daedalus son Icarus the earliest self-taught aerodynam first try soaring through heavens icists perhaps first designer wings feathers wax model airplanes Leonardo da Vinci Left photo taken during th summer oi iu snows Buddy Frazier ieft Richard Sherman working Sherman-designed Rubber job buiit Frazier site lathe north side Jefferson High School driii field very popuiar site ali events except Gas Right photo taken winter 1973 deliberateiy out sequence show what becomes modelers after 35 years hobby Buddy Fra zier holding 1940-vintage Lanzo Stick Richard Sherman winds motor years notwithstanding both look pretty goodi author pictured news article Au gust 15 1937 after having initiated Junior Blrdmen organization spon sored San Antonio Light Hearst newspaper chain Two Outdoor two door competitive meets held year 72 Model Aviation copy original National Aeronautic Association charter NAA seal de signating San Antonio Society Model Engineers Gas Model Chapter NAA names SASME members listed document dated March 24 1938 1938 photo shows Bill Pfeil 36in-span Brat-powered modei weighed 166 oz Bill member 1938 Wakefield team competed France Herb Fisher 1938 Brown-powered Clipper first Clipper appear San Antonio Its floating flight charac teristics caused quite sensation 1938 Leonardos famed drawings flapped wing ornithopters executed around year 1500 show astonishing understand ing dynamics flight day Almost four centuries later models played key role development modern avi ation Samuel Pierpont Langley earliest pioneers build study mmThe second Clipper appear San Antonio Brown Jr-powered ship built Bob Rickard pictured model 1938 Bob race Herb have first Clipper field few days apart competition iature airplanes Langley scientist astronomer served third secre tary Smithsonian Institution built 40 rubber-powered models tween 1887 1895 called aero dromes Wilbur Orville Wright also built models discovering fascinations experimental value firsthand Like originators field Leonardo Langley Wright Brothers worked alone model aviation soli r 1938 winner seen owner Willie Ng appears Berkeley Courier Sportster lowered thrust line probably powered Willies favorite engine Brown Jr tary hobby country began change during late 1920s early 1930s Stirred glamour World War aviators movies such Wings Hells Angels exciting developments aviation re corded almost daily newspapers American public ready model avia tion Recognizing mood entrepreneurs formed small companies offering model building materials some crude kits gossamer-winged models Carl Goldberg boys Chicago turning outstanding flights Newspa pers department stores began organiz ing groups modelers such JordanMarsh Junior Aviator League Pulp magazines called because made newsprint came scene Though carried mainly fiction some pulps included three-view plans solid modelsnot WW contemporaneous aircraft also futuristic designs looked future inciden tally aerodynamicists period dis counted idea space flight certain i,, 4 November 1990 73 Another 1938 photo showing Oliver Pfeil Brown-powered original often flew Kelly Field brother Bill owned popular successful Model Airplane Shop San Antonios Broadway Herb ODell seen 1938 photo GHQ Sportster powered Mighty Midget m Ralph Pressler president SAGMAA 1938 putting cowl place beauti ful Rearwin Speedster may have powered Mighty Midget Ralph gracious ly supplied old club records news clippings used assemble story Left Orin Anderson 17 years old won Arizona State Gas Model Championship 1939 Phoenix Brown-powered Pacific Ace won him another Brown Jr Ohlsson 23 Right refreshment faciiity Keiiy Fieid contest photo probabiy taken 1940 shows ieft Ng Charies Adams Jack Harding Betty Fisher Carl Jonas iooks aii traded shoes Moore props surpass Though seemed no da Vincis day least ex perts resurrected 1898 declaration World Congress Scientists scientific advances late-19th-century group de cided made minor im provements discoveries possi ble newspaper sponsored two Outdoor two Indoor contests annually winners competing sponsors expense national Junior Birdmen Championship San Antonios Texas link Hearst chain San Antonio Light recall several top Birdmen Charlie Adams Fred Cordova Richard Sher man extremely competent events Charlie Fred best known outstanding throwing arms Hand-Launched Glider Dick ex celled Indoor Some years later Dick nar rowly missed making Wakefield team Unlike teenaged peers three young men always ready help out us novice builders just few years junior Go away kid bother sort thing gotten used hearing 15-year-old idols age 11 12 hurt Birdmen divided two class es Junior under 16 Senior under 21 Competition fierce particularly Sen ior contender didnt make town might visit relatives another try again winter small house trailer appeared vacant lot San Antonios south side San Antonio address modeler within eligible enter 1937 best recollection Indoor contest didnt 74 Model Aviation Singie-wheeled models very popuiar San Antonio 1939 Ralph Pressler left Herb Fisher right being assisted HL Shiiier center San Antonio Exchange Ciub getting modeis ready contest sponsored ciub rumor Mr Shiiier ieft set Wizard Oz assist contest compieteiy untrue rockets would never attain necessary ye- Founded famed Hearst Syndicate pub locity escape muzzle velocity lisher William Randolph Hearst Junior SAGMAA members ieft miles per second alsoBirdmen America became largest ofciub another Robert sevenA Sedgewick pictured cadet skeptical aircraft could ever match the groups promoting model aviation during 1939 iast heard speed soundand sure would never Golden Age Flight Hearst captain U S Army Air Corps 1942 summer 1940 search new competition inciuded Stunt event Ohisson 60-powered Cilpper right carried Atom-powered Ciipper Jr aloft both en gines running Ciipper Jr would reisased its pneumatic-controiied cradle go Its own way left Bud Frazier left Lee Sherman pose Ciipper combo Sherman owned Clipper Frazier Ciipper Jr Lee kiiied Burma 1943 win trip championships although believe did win hometown following year name Roy Mar quardt future founder Marquardt Aviation aerospace contrac tor thats still going strong today Theres example what promoting model avia tion can accomplish Gas model flying began come its own 1932 young man Philadel phia set world record gasoline-powered models two-minute 35-second flight prompted National Aeronautic As sociation sponsor meet sched uled following year 1933 contest same young man won Tex aco Trophy longest-flying Gas mod el Due way rules written also raked two trophies intended Rubber eventsthe now-fa mous Moffett Mulvihill trophies Need less say rules quickly revised 1940 contest New Braunfels TX tracted 25 entrants SAGMAA newer member Joe Borden pictured classy Comet Clipper came away victorious almost-forgotten long-ago event misunderstanding 1933 NAA meet proved divisive Model aviation began polarize two factionspro-Gas anti-Gas Several state legislatures made Gas model flying illegal suspect Hearsts influence largely responsible schism newspaper magnate took stand against Gas Paradoxically man done other promote model avia tion now doing best undermine important branch skillful writer can take facts about weight size airspeed skew lurid scenarios bear little resem blance reality Heating up contro versy stories appeared press telling fire-breathing engines tanks full ex plosive gasoline models tossed wan tonly sky cut loose pilots control could come crashing earth anywhere anytime 1 4-ft-span monster powered two Brown Juniors mounted above other built Bill Hewgley 1940 photo shows ship being launched Orin An derson left Willie Ng Willie also killed flying Hump Burma about 1943 Such stories must have conjured some alarming images typical suburbanite probably visualized himself sitting chair pretending read Popular Mechan ics children feet new rug reading Sunday funnies front ra dio Theyre listening Uncle Bob Just Uncle Bob reads horrible death sen tence Ming Magnificent laying Flash Gordon Professor Zharkov sneaking Dale Arden out Mings Harem happens abominable Gas models crashes through new picture win dow smacks children bursts flame terrible explosion Depression years remember fellow wouldnt have money re place window rug radio may never find out what hap pened Flash Dale professor children all miss course knows what outcome might have such alarmist views Gas model flying gone unchecked Fortunately National Aeronautic Association inter vened NAA organized Gas Model Di vision supported nationwide network Gas Model Chapters regional chap ters intended educate public about model aviation generally cham pion cause promoted contests shows other public displays communities November 1990 75 Toddle McQuatters 1940 beautifui Brown-powered Mk II Clipper Toddle also strong contender Rubber contests Louis Urfurth Mk II Clipper 1940 young son Billy rising star time rubber-powered craft HL Gliders 1941 photo shows 36-in-span Atom 09-powered Buzzard Bombshell being spected family cat model built Buddy Frazier Kits given away premiums subscribing Air Trails magazine subscription kit mere two dollars back Today just license cat would 25 dollars Left Ingenuity work Oliver Pfeii left brother Bill photographed sometime 1941 demonstrating camera placement novative Camera Clipper Right Orin Anderson young man photographed early 1942 displaying Brown Jr-powered Comet Clipper fact its largely due efforts NAA lobby championing model aviation Radio Control models legal today During Forties governments acute wartime need aviation expertise also boosted status model aviation Model ers specializing various branches hobby made themselves available mili tary aircraft production aero research San Antonio TX International Gas Model Airplane Association prompt align itself NAA effort San Antonio Evening News heralded devel opment January 1938 article T D Higgins Zooming Over Airdromes have just informed San An tonio members International Gas Model Airplane Association joining large-scale movement form Gas Model Division National Aeronautic Asso ciation Ralph Pressler president lo cal chapter IGMAA declared National Aeronautic Association seeking model airplane builders members chapter solidly behind move ment expects affiliated early March article went mention Press ler chosen represent San Anto nio Dallas following Saturday meeting called NAA plan two possibly three Gas model contests state during coming season Press ler quoted saying highly likely San Antonio would selected contest sites Gas Model Division write up continued will operated directly un der NAA supervision exercising full con trol over members NAA grants Gas model fliers licenses can revoke violation safety rules Higgins closed remarking permis sion Army Air Corps chapter flying Kelly Field Sunday morn ings test flights attract consid erable attention always well tended San Antonio Society Model Engi neers became Gas Model Chapter National Aeronautic Association March 24 1938 charter members Al fred Person Louis F Ridder Jr Gene Hart mangruber Ralph R Pressler RH Estes Jr Oliver Pfeil William Pfeil Jr PJ Cockrell JJ Cody Jr James E Kessler Jack Harding Carl Jonas Robert Sedgewick Anton Heisler Jr RT Rickard Jr served senior advisors Shortly after its inception club re named itself San Antonio Gas Model Airplane Association SAGMAA no evidence charter changed Well statement wrong its sure promptly corrected Anton Heisler created excellent club logo Which re produced pages about same time antiGas movement finally began weaken Junior Birdmen program shortly came end disbanding Jun ior Birdmen real pity Whether Hearst did out pique still de serves appreciation first promoters model airplane hobby organizer Junior Birdmen project SAGMAA meetings held Model Airplane Shop just few doors Houston Street Broadway shop owned Bill Ollie Pfeil Having begun shoestring two brothers moved location hardware store around block theyd single spartan showcase no engines Broadway location Pfeils created very nice store Later able expand leasing building next door knocking out wall Model Airplane Shop became best hobby shop San Antonio no wonder young Pfeil brothers pretty much lived hobby good businessmen well succeeding bet ter competitors ac complished think identifying customers giving sound advice sought brothers also pro moted contests offering excellent prizes sev eral times year shop became lunchtime visiting place everyone worked town anyone building space free use back room SAGMAA course held its meetings until out grew space moved either Dairyland Bordens Josephine Street became subject joke clouds recollection dairys name Bill Pfeil killed auto acci dent shortly after World War II began 01lie gave up shop full-scale aviation brothers also begun wholesalers hobby supplies number young people drawn model aviation because Bill Ollie Pfeil im possible estimate its surely high cherish own memories Incidentally another source model air craft San Antonio before war toy department Wolff & Marx store excellent collection Scale kits cluding some like Armstrong-Whitworth Quadraplane bought quite rare Ive never seen such kits else dont know Wolff & 76 Model Aviation first SAGMAA reunion took place May 1975 Standing left right Alfred Person Richard Sherman Tom Moore Claude Williams Jerry Schramm MR Hamilton Jerry Heller Ollie Pfeii Sitting left Buddy Frazier provided photo Kneeling mid dle row left right Ralph Pressier Clyde Stokes Jimmy Sommerselt front row left right Bill Hewgley Orin Anderson Percy Cockreii Jimmy Kessler recent SAGMAA reunion December 1965 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60ABC22W/CARB17000$15000 Corbin presented kit Super-Ace trophy award Fort Worth meet featured single limited engine run event Out 52 en trants first through sixth places lined up follows Bob Rutledge Houston age 17 3 mm 505 sec Ed Martin San Anto nio age 20 3 mm 265 sec Sid Smart Dallas age 31 2 mm 49 sec Herb Fish er San Antonio age 28 2 mm 465 sec Bob Rickard San Antonio age 22 2 mm 295 sec Willie Ng San Antonio age 14 2 mm 295 sec Obviously San Antonio boys forces reckoned results also showed age wasnt necessary win craft seemed fairly well matched performance Although no note made engine run probably 30 seconds since 45-second run wasnt especially popular Texas newspaper account included amusing anecdote Martins plane landed horse grazing nearby horse kicked plane piec es Martins record remained intact An estimated 7000 10000 spectators watched 70 contestants perform San Antonio meet held fall Kelly Field As Fort Worth format involved limited engine run event age groups Trophies awarded 10th place First place went Herb Fisher fellow San Antonio residents Orin Ander son Bob Rickard taking sixth sev enth places respectively Herbs wife Betty Fisher won Womens Event Ever promoter Ralph Pressler came up some intriguing crowd pleasers well-attended contest PA nouncer almost entire day Pressler asked crowd applaud something unintentional happened field end day gave award con testant received loudest ap plause improvised award went John Udden Corpus Christi newspa per account didnt say what crowd applauded him Wrong Way Corrigan event other innovation Pressler took timely advantage popularity certain fuddled navigator named Corrigan gentleman believing himself flying over Kansas few other miscellaneous states union really crossed Atlantic Twenty-two contestants entered Wrong Way Corrigan placed models line facing wind withdrew another line 10 ft rear signal run machines later become Le Mans Start start en gines Thirty seconds later another sig nal fliers release models expected zoom up wind blown downwind first cross line 100 ft downwind win ner Needless say some colli sions takeoff As far crowd concerned case few Christians lions dust settled Bob Rickard San Antonio emerged fearless winner Bob also won first Austin Willie Ng did same Dallas Gene Hart mangruber came fourth Dallas meet 102 entrants estimated 10000 spectators San Antonio boys prowess wasnt limited fields Texas Bill Pfeil won place US Lord Wakefield team 1938 NAA Nationals fellow resi dent Richard Sherman came close Bill went France compete British trophy captured another US team member Jim Cahill Lafay Continued page 120 _______________________ U PIPER 50-75 R 74 IN WING FOAMAIRE 10 SPAN 30-33 LBSCCSPAN 6-7 LBS 45-60 POWER10 SPAN 19- L o-42 CC POWER 5-10 LB PAYLOAD OPTIONAL SPREADER4 CH PLY FOAM AND BALSA WOOD CHOOSE 3 OR 4 OH SLOW AND STABLE KIT $26995 SPDKIT$1995 T $69953 CH $14995 4 CH $16495 SEND $100 FOR CATALOGRT 1 NEODESHA KS 66757 OF SAC KITS AND ACC 325-2821 FREE 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training military pilots Just few years later number San Antonio boys partic ipated promotion duplicate filmed action served Army Air Corps Later still some SAG MAA members served Army Air Force United States Air Force like Dutch Sluder strong beginning NAA-SAGMAA alliance Goals met surpassed organiza tional meeting held end 1938 ca pable set officers headed Pressler elected 12-point program adopted 1939 Pressler overloaded work requiring organizational talents both SAGMAA Southwest Gas Model Association SWGMA regional collective NAA Gas Model Division chapters 12-point program included complet ing schedule model development ex perimentation scheduling open-house meet ings educate public about model avia tion improving management flying activities several locations Yes very good year Southwest Gas Model Association met Dallas early 1939 plan years contest schedule first meet slated Abilene May 14 followed San Antonio May 28 Houston June 11 Fort Worth June 25 Mineral Wells July 16 Dallas July 30 Corpus Christi Au gust 13 Waco August 27 Wichita Falls September 3 Austin tentatively scheduled August 13 same day Corpus Christi contest Obviously NAA Gas Model Chapters increased number force Youll notice al case two weeks rest pro vided between contests repair per haps SWGMA 1939 contest season well publicized local merchants ganizations such Exchange Clubs generous prize money fact end 1941 much thousand dollars available prizes SAGMAA coming nearly popular San Anto nio Missions ball club Texas League San Antonio still counted Herb Fisher Bob Rickard Orin Anderson Willie Ng Anton Heisler Percy Cockrell Alfred Person among its prominent model builders 1939 Carl Jonas Jack Harding Bob Sedgewick becoming competi tive though continued sport fly reg ularly Kelly Among newer members Joe Borden JA Carney son Jim Bill Hewgley Clyde Stokes Younger SAGMAA members making Rubber model scene over Thomas Jef ferson High School drill field Jack Goebel WL Vavricka Buddy Frazier Toddy McQuatters Hilton Mollenhauer Charles Barron Alfred Lehmberg large mowed field single small tree center excellent Rubber Free Flight tree course attracted models like magnet held con tests prevailing wind prevailed south un less found lift models generally stayed over field lift planes usu ally went quite high After passing over few nearby houses open coun try mesquite cactus diamondbacks seemed stretch way North Pole Before got know keeper castle lived campus fam ily ships landing roof Continued page 185 120 Model Aviation THE LEADER IN COMPETITION PROPELLERS 4 fI RC PYLON RACING SERIES 500 DIAPITCH PRICE 7SN 5N 8I67A7I8 SERIES 400C 86/,677/a7 977I7 W WIDE BLADE EW EXTRA WIDE N NARROW flap joiner center trailing edge Apply slow-curing epoxy cen ter wing slide way body Continually check alignment epoxy sets making certain wing 90 body viewed front above After wing has dried follow same steps stabilizer sure stab parallel wing equidis tant hinge line hinge line way across Install 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VOLTS AT UP TO 10 AMPS Tac auadad4 aC 44f&f CALL OR WRITE FOR MORE INFO JOMAR PRODUCTS513-474-0985ACTUAL 2028 Knightsbridge Dr Cinti OH 45244 SIZE roof would knock Cannonballs door hed take us roof model re trieval See what publicity public aware ness clout can model builder newspapers period no less hungry colorful incidents jazz up stories journalists today 1939 San Antonio meet won Sid Smart DallasSan Antonio couldnt win em J Carneys model sliced half propeller another As newspaper account related determined Mr Carney took ship home repaired returned finish remaining flights highly successful contest way 10000 spectators cheering over 100 contestants Ray Math ews also Dallas captured second place Doug Porter Corpus Christi came third San Antonios Alfred Person took fourth San Antonio boys scored two other tri umphs 1939 Orin Anderson won Ar izona State Championship Phoenix fly ing beautiful Pacific Ace powered Brown Junior Jerry Heller established almost world record 1939 Cor pus Christi meet first big meet Jerry ever entered fact hed building model aircraft less year time week before Corpus Christi meet entered won Novice contest Kelly Field truly rising star Thermal conditions during competi tion Corpus Christi unusual Jerrys airplane caught thermal almost immedi ately after launched went almost out sight wind shifted model returned again went almost out sight again came back time land ing far launch point Com et Zipper flown hour 10 minutes 552 seconds thought NAA record Senior class since Jerry hand launched model achievement couldnt officially acknowl edged An ROG rise-off-ground launch record requirements Needr Stock No _____ ______________ ______ I HANDLING CHARGE H k order act Card order cdo Order troot Aifrooo fh less say meet Jerrys Second place went Dewey Bonbrake Houston boy duration just over 50 minutes another hand-launched record time Open class Some contests included smallbore-engine event Corpus Christi meet Gene Hartmangruber came out top 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Those Days ed Lehmberg Wonder Change thought pioneer Power modelers easy back Thir ties saved early Gas movement being caught cross fire before off ground National Aeronau tic Association fliers own determination 4 mythical pair built wings selves might call first homebuilders certaialy couldnt called MANS FASCINATION flight age- modelers old Daedalus son Icarus the earliest self-taught aerodynam first try soaring through heavens icists perhaps first designer wings feathers wax model airplanes Leonardo da Vinci Left photo taken during th summer oi iu snows Buddy Frazier ieft Richard Sherman working Sherman-designed Rubber job buiit Frazier site lathe north side Jefferson High School driii field very popuiar site ali events except Gas Right photo taken winter 1973 deliberateiy out sequence show what becomes modelers after 35 years hobby Buddy Fra zier holding 1940-vintage Lanzo Stick Richard Sherman winds motor years notwithstanding both look pretty goodi author pictured news article Au gust 15 1937 after having initiated Junior Blrdmen organization spon sored San Antonio Light Hearst newspaper chain Two Outdoor two door competitive meets held year 72 Model Aviation copy original National Aeronautic Association charter NAA seal de signating San Antonio Society Model Engineers Gas Model Chapter NAA names SASME members listed document dated March 24 1938 1938 photo shows Bill Pfeil 36in-span Brat-powered modei weighed 166 oz Bill member 1938 Wakefield team competed France Herb Fisher 1938 Brown-powered Clipper first Clipper appear San Antonio Its floating flight charac teristics caused quite sensation 1938 Leonardos famed drawings flapped wing ornithopters executed around year 1500 show astonishing understand ing dynamics flight day Almost four centuries later models played key role development modern avi ation Samuel Pierpont Langley earliest pioneers build study mmThe second Clipper appear San Antonio Brown Jr-powered ship built Bob Rickard pictured model 1938 Bob race Herb have first Clipper field few days apart competition iature airplanes Langley scientist astronomer served third secre tary Smithsonian Institution built 40 rubber-powered models tween 1887 1895 called aero dromes Wilbur Orville Wright also built models discovering fascinations experimental value firsthand Like originators field Leonardo Langley Wright Brothers worked alone model aviation soli r 1938 winner seen owner Willie Ng appears Berkeley Courier Sportster lowered thrust line probably powered Willies favorite engine Brown Jr tary hobby country began change during late 1920s early 1930s Stirred glamour World War aviators movies such Wings Hells Angels exciting developments aviation re corded almost daily newspapers American public ready model avia tion Recognizing mood entrepreneurs formed small companies offering model building materials some crude kits gossamer-winged models Carl Goldberg boys Chicago turning outstanding flights Newspa pers department stores began organiz ing groups modelers such JordanMarsh Junior Aviator League Pulp magazines called because made newsprint came scene Though carried mainly fiction some pulps included three-view plans solid modelsnot WW contemporaneous aircraft also futuristic designs looked future inciden tally aerodynamicists period dis counted idea space flight certain i,, 4 November 1990 73 Another 1938 photo showing Oliver Pfeil Brown-powered original often flew Kelly Field brother Bill owned popular successful Model Airplane Shop San Antonios Broadway Herb ODell seen 1938 photo GHQ Sportster powered Mighty Midget m Ralph Pressler president SAGMAA 1938 putting cowl place beauti ful Rearwin Speedster may have powered Mighty Midget Ralph gracious ly supplied old club records news clippings used assemble story Left Orin Anderson 17 years old won Arizona State Gas Model Championship 1939 Phoenix Brown-powered Pacific Ace won him another Brown Jr Ohlsson 23 Right refreshment faciiity Keiiy Fieid contest photo probabiy taken 1940 shows ieft Ng Charies Adams Jack Harding Betty Fisher Carl Jonas iooks aii traded shoes Moore props surpass Though seemed no da Vincis day least ex perts resurrected 1898 declaration World Congress Scientists scientific advances late-19th-century group de cided made minor im provements discoveries possi ble newspaper sponsored two Outdoor two Indoor contests annually winners competing sponsors expense national Junior Birdmen Championship San Antonios Texas link Hearst chain San Antonio Light recall several top Birdmen Charlie Adams Fred Cordova Richard Sher man extremely competent events Charlie Fred best known outstanding throwing arms Hand-Launched Glider Dick ex celled Indoor Some years later Dick nar rowly missed making Wakefield team Unlike teenaged peers three young men always ready help out us novice builders just few years junior Go away kid bother sort thing gotten used hearing 15-year-old idols age 11 12 hurt Birdmen divided two class es Junior under 16 Senior under 21 Competition fierce particularly Sen ior contender didnt make town might visit relatives another try again winter small house trailer appeared vacant lot San Antonios south side San Antonio address modeler within eligible enter 1937 best recollection Indoor contest didnt 74 Model Aviation Singie-wheeled models very popuiar San Antonio 1939 Ralph Pressler left Herb Fisher right being assisted HL Shiiier center San Antonio Exchange Ciub getting modeis ready contest sponsored ciub rumor Mr Shiiier ieft set Wizard Oz assist contest compieteiy untrue rockets would never attain necessary ye- Founded famed Hearst Syndicate pub locity escape muzzle velocity lisher William Randolph Hearst Junior SAGMAA members ieft miles per second alsoBirdmen America became largest ofciub another Robert sevenA Sedgewick pictured cadet skeptical aircraft could ever match the groups promoting model aviation during 1939 iast heard speed soundand sure would never Golden Age Flight Hearst captain U S Army Air Corps 1942 summer 1940 search new competition inciuded Stunt event Ohisson 60-powered Cilpper right carried Atom-powered Ciipper Jr aloft both en gines running Ciipper Jr would reisased its pneumatic-controiied cradle go Its own way left Bud Frazier left Lee Sherman pose Ciipper combo Sherman owned Clipper Frazier Ciipper Jr Lee kiiied Burma 1943 win trip championships although believe did win hometown following year name Roy Mar quardt future founder Marquardt Aviation aerospace contrac tor thats still going strong today Theres example what promoting model avia tion can accomplish Gas model flying began come its own 1932 young man Philadel phia set world record gasoline-powered models two-minute 35-second flight prompted National Aeronautic As sociation sponsor meet sched uled following year 1933 contest same young man won Tex aco Trophy longest-flying Gas mod el Due way rules written also raked two trophies intended Rubber eventsthe now-fa mous Moffett Mulvihill trophies Need less say rules quickly revised 1940 contest New Braunfels TX tracted 25 entrants SAGMAA newer member Joe Borden pictured classy Comet Clipper came away victorious almost-forgotten long-ago event misunderstanding 1933 NAA meet proved divisive Model aviation began polarize two factionspro-Gas anti-Gas Several state legislatures made Gas model flying illegal suspect Hearsts influence largely responsible schism newspaper magnate took stand against Gas Paradoxically man done other promote model avia tion now doing best undermine important branch skillful writer can take facts about weight size airspeed skew lurid scenarios bear little resem blance reality Heating up contro versy stories appeared press telling fire-breathing engines tanks full ex plosive gasoline models tossed wan tonly sky cut loose pilots control could come crashing earth anywhere anytime 1 4-ft-span monster powered two Brown Juniors mounted above other built Bill Hewgley 1940 photo shows ship being launched Orin An derson left Willie Ng Willie also killed flying Hump Burma about 1943 Such stories must have conjured some alarming images typical suburbanite probably visualized himself sitting chair pretending read Popular Mechan ics children feet new rug reading Sunday funnies front ra dio Theyre listening Uncle Bob Just Uncle Bob reads horrible death sen tence Ming Magnificent laying Flash Gordon Professor Zharkov sneaking Dale Arden out Mings Harem happens abominable Gas models crashes through new picture win dow smacks children bursts flame terrible explosion Depression years remember fellow wouldnt have money re place window rug radio may never find out what hap pened Flash Dale professor children all miss course knows what outcome might have such alarmist views Gas model flying gone unchecked Fortunately National Aeronautic Association inter vened NAA organized Gas Model Di vision supported nationwide network Gas Model Chapters regional chap ters intended educate public about model aviation generally cham pion cause promoted contests shows other public displays communities November 1990 75 Toddle McQuatters 1940 beautifui Brown-powered Mk II Clipper Toddle also strong contender Rubber contests Louis Urfurth Mk II Clipper 1940 young son Billy rising star time rubber-powered craft HL Gliders 1941 photo shows 36-in-span Atom 09-powered Buzzard Bombshell being spected family cat model built Buddy Frazier Kits given away premiums subscribing Air Trails magazine subscription kit mere two dollars back Today just license cat would 25 dollars Left Ingenuity work Oliver Pfeii left brother Bill photographed sometime 1941 demonstrating camera placement novative Camera Clipper Right Orin Anderson young man photographed early 1942 displaying Brown Jr-powered Comet Clipper fact its largely due efforts NAA lobby championing model aviation Radio Control models legal today During Forties governments acute wartime need aviation expertise also boosted status model aviation Model ers specializing various branches hobby made themselves available mili tary aircraft production aero research San Antonio TX International Gas Model Airplane Association prompt align itself NAA effort San Antonio Evening News heralded devel opment January 1938 article T D Higgins Zooming Over Airdromes have just informed San An tonio members International Gas Model Airplane Association joining large-scale movement form Gas Model Division National Aeronautic Asso ciation Ralph Pressler president lo cal chapter IGMAA declared National Aeronautic Association seeking model airplane builders members chapter solidly behind move ment expects affiliated early March article went mention Press ler chosen represent San Anto nio Dallas following Saturday meeting called NAA plan two possibly three Gas model contests state during coming season Press ler quoted saying highly likely San Antonio would selected contest sites Gas Model Division write up continued will operated directly un der NAA supervision exercising full con trol over members NAA grants Gas model fliers licenses can revoke violation safety rules Higgins closed remarking permis sion Army Air Corps chapter flying Kelly Field Sunday morn ings test flights attract consid erable attention always well tended San Antonio Society Model Engi neers became Gas Model Chapter National Aeronautic Association March 24 1938 charter members Al fred Person Louis F Ridder Jr Gene Hart mangruber Ralph R Pressler RH Estes Jr Oliver Pfeil William Pfeil Jr PJ Cockrell JJ Cody Jr James E Kessler Jack Harding Carl Jonas Robert Sedgewick Anton Heisler Jr RT Rickard Jr served senior advisors Shortly after its inception club re named itself San Antonio Gas Model Airplane Association SAGMAA no evidence charter changed Well statement wrong its sure promptly corrected Anton Heisler created excellent club logo Which re produced pages about same time antiGas movement finally began weaken Junior Birdmen program shortly came end disbanding Jun ior Birdmen real pity Whether Hearst did out pique still de serves appreciation first promoters model airplane hobby organizer Junior Birdmen project SAGMAA meetings held Model Airplane Shop just few doors Houston Street Broadway shop owned Bill Ollie Pfeil Having begun shoestring two brothers moved location hardware store around block theyd single spartan showcase no engines Broadway location Pfeils created very nice store Later able expand leasing building next door knocking out wall Model Airplane Shop became best hobby shop San Antonio no wonder young Pfeil brothers pretty much lived hobby good businessmen well succeeding bet ter competitors ac complished think identifying customers giving sound advice sought brothers also pro moted contests offering excellent prizes sev eral times year shop became lunchtime visiting place everyone worked town anyone building space free use back room SAGMAA course held its meetings until out grew space moved either Dairyland Bordens Josephine Street became subject joke clouds recollection dairys name Bill Pfeil killed auto acci dent shortly after World War II began 01lie gave up shop full-scale aviation brothers also begun wholesalers hobby supplies number young people drawn model aviation because Bill Ollie Pfeil im possible estimate its surely high cherish own memories Incidentally another source model air craft San Antonio before war toy department Wolff & Marx store excellent collection Scale kits cluding some like Armstrong-Whitworth Quadraplane bought quite rare Ive never seen such kits else dont know Wolff & 76 Model Aviation first SAGMAA reunion took place May 1975 Standing left right Alfred Person Richard Sherman Tom Moore Claude Williams Jerry Schramm MR Hamilton Jerry Heller Ollie Pfeii Sitting left Buddy Frazier provided photo Kneeling mid dle row left right Ralph Pressier Clyde Stokes Jimmy Sommerselt front row left right Bill Hewgley Orin Anderson Percy Cockreii Jimmy Kessler recent SAGMAA reunion December 1965 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events just six months ago entering hangar awed performance HL Gliders mi crofilm Indoor creations flown big boys NAA headquarters taking easy way out recommended minimum age requirement responsible member ship left discretion individ ual chapters SAGMAA decided mini mum age 12 years added re quirement young member accom panied adult Most young modBOB HOLMAN PLANS best scale 29 years Plans Englands leading scale modelellers have plans have won everything BEST Show Toledo World Scala Meet Masters Plans Brian Taylor Dennis Bryant Thorpe BROS leading British magazines Catalogs Beat 51 Scale $500 Model Aarcaft plans handbook 1989-00 $500 Scale Drawings Plans Handbook 5500 RC-Model World Plans ConaL Guide $500 Catalogs $400 3 shipped together order Please donot buy glass FW 190 lOt untill check qualify glass work Bob Holman Kits Call RH 714 885-3959 elers town applied membership first meeting after tamed corner course young fellows quickly learned purchase expensive engine also costly air 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60ABC22W/CARB17000$15000 Corbin presented kit Super-Ace trophy award Fort Worth meet featured single limited engine run event Out 52 en trants first through sixth places lined up follows Bob Rutledge Houston age 17 3 mm 505 sec Ed Martin San Anto nio age 20 3 mm 265 sec Sid Smart Dallas age 31 2 mm 49 sec Herb Fish er San Antonio age 28 2 mm 465 sec Bob Rickard San Antonio age 22 2 mm 295 sec Willie Ng San Antonio age 14 2 mm 295 sec Obviously San Antonio boys forces reckoned results also showed age wasnt necessary win craft seemed fairly well matched performance Although no note made engine run probably 30 seconds since 45-second run wasnt especially popular Texas newspaper account included amusing anecdote Martins plane landed horse grazing nearby horse kicked plane piec es Martins record remained intact An estimated 7000 10000 spectators watched 70 contestants perform San Antonio meet held fall Kelly Field As Fort Worth format involved limited engine run event age groups Trophies 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models expected zoom up wind blown downwind first cross line 100 ft downwind win ner Needless say some colli sions takeoff As far crowd concerned case few Christians lions dust settled Bob Rickard San Antonio emerged fearless winner Bob also won first Austin Willie Ng did same Dallas Gene Hart mangruber came fourth Dallas meet 102 entrants estimated 10000 spectators San Antonio boys prowess wasnt limited fields Texas Bill Pfeil won place US Lord Wakefield team 1938 NAA Nationals fellow resi dent Richard Sherman came close Bill went France compete British trophy captured another US team member Jim Cahill Lafay Continued page 120 _______________________ U PIPER 50-75 R 74 IN WING FOAMAIRE 10 SPAN 30-33 LBSCCSPAN 6-7 LBS 45-60 POWER10 SPAN 19- L o-42 CC POWER 5-10 LB PAYLOAD OPTIONAL SPREADER4 CH PLY FOAM AND BALSA WOOD CHOOSE 3 OR 4 OH SLOW AND STABLE KIT $26995 SPDKIT$1995 T $69953 CH $14995 4 CH $16495 SEND $100 FOR CATALOGRT 1 NEODESHA KS 66757 OF SAC KITS AND ACC 325-2821 FREE 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training military pilots Just few years later number San Antonio boys partic ipated promotion duplicate filmed action served Army Air Corps Later still some SAG MAA members served Army Air Force United States Air Force like Dutch Sluder strong beginning NAA-SAGMAA alliance Goals met surpassed organiza tional meeting held end 1938 ca pable set officers headed Pressler elected 12-point program adopted 1939 Pressler overloaded work requiring organizational talents both SAGMAA Southwest Gas Model Association SWGMA regional collective NAA Gas Model Division chapters 12-point program included complet ing schedule model development ex perimentation scheduling open-house meet ings educate public about model avia tion improving management flying activities several locations Yes very good year Southwest Gas Model Association met Dallas early 1939 plan years contest schedule first meet slated Abilene May 14 followed San Antonio May 28 Houston June 11 Fort Worth June 25 Mineral Wells July 16 Dallas July 30 Corpus Christi Au gust 13 Waco August 27 Wichita Falls September 3 Austin tentatively scheduled August 13 same day Corpus Christi contest Obviously NAA Gas Model Chapters increased number force Youll notice al case two weeks rest pro vided between contests repair per haps SWGMA 1939 contest season well publicized local merchants ganizations such Exchange Clubs generous prize money fact end 1941 much thousand dollars available prizes SAGMAA coming nearly popular San Anto nio Missions ball club Texas League San Antonio still counted Herb Fisher Bob Rickard Orin Anderson Willie Ng Anton Heisler Percy Cockrell Alfred Person among its prominent model builders 1939 Carl Jonas Jack Harding Bob Sedgewick becoming competi tive though continued sport fly reg ularly Kelly Among newer members Joe Borden JA Carney son Jim Bill Hewgley Clyde Stokes Younger SAGMAA members making Rubber model scene over Thomas Jef ferson High School drill field Jack Goebel WL Vavricka Buddy Frazier Toddy McQuatters Hilton Mollenhauer Charles Barron Alfred Lehmberg large mowed field single small tree center excellent Rubber Free Flight tree course attracted models like magnet held con tests prevailing wind prevailed south un less found lift models generally stayed over field lift planes usu ally went quite high After passing over few nearby houses open coun try mesquite cactus diamondbacks seemed stretch way North Pole Before got know keeper castle lived campus fam ily ships landing roof Continued page 185 120 Model Aviation THE LEADER IN COMPETITION PROPELLERS 4 fI RC PYLON RACING SERIES 500 DIAPITCH PRICE 7SN 5N 8I67A7I8 SERIES 400C 86/,677/a7 977I7 W WIDE BLADE EW EXTRA WIDE N NARROW flap joiner center trailing edge Apply slow-curing epoxy cen ter wing slide way body Continually check alignment epoxy sets making certain wing 90 body viewed front above After wing has dried follow same steps stabilizer sure stab parallel wing equidis tant hinge line hinge line way across Install 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writing model five flights son took first place Novice spring 1989 contest Marietta GA little over month later Derek took second place first outing Intermediate Cincinnati Stunt trainer looks good air handles smoothly turns well fun fly Build find out Please write questions might have Dale Barry Rt 2 Box 264D2 Harlem GA 30814 Ill glad help SAGMAA/Lehmberg Continued page 120 high school could written off castlekeepers name Cannonball Smith loved put sugar cream mod els eat breakfast Around 1939 some us got talking Can nonball surprised learn lot fliers used high school field SAGMAA members read about activities Express Evening News Light newspapers put plane GUNFIGHTERS * POSITIVE FEEL * USED BY TOP PILOTS * FOR FUTABA AIRTRONIOS JR OTHERS PLEASE SPECIFY RADIO CA RES ADD 625% SALES TAX November 1990 185 IS PROUD JI TO ANNOUNCE THE WORLDS SMALLEST ON-BOARD GLO-SWITCH WIRE DIRECT OR Y INTO ANY RECEIVER OUTPUT INCLUDES REVERSING SWITCH ADJUSTABLE ON POINT AND LED INDICATOR HANDLES 0 TO 12 VOLTS AT UP TO 10 AMPS Tac auadad4 aC 44f&f CALL OR WRITE FOR MORE INFO JOMAR PRODUCTS513-474-0985ACTUAL 2028 Knightsbridge Dr Cinti OH 45244 SIZE roof would knock Cannonballs door hed take us roof model re trieval See what publicity public aware ness clout can model builder newspapers period no less hungry colorful incidents jazz up stories journalists today 1939 San Antonio meet won Sid Smart DallasSan Antonio couldnt win em J Carneys model sliced half propeller another As newspaper account related determined Mr Carney took ship home repaired returned finish remaining flights highly successful contest way 10000 spectators cheering over 100 contestants Ray Math ews also Dallas captured second place Doug Porter Corpus Christi came third San Antonios Alfred Person took fourth San Antonio boys scored two other tri umphs 1939 Orin Anderson won Ar izona State Championship Phoenix fly ing beautiful Pacific Ace powered Brown Junior Jerry Heller established almost world record 1939 Cor pus Christi meet first big meet Jerry ever entered fact hed building model aircraft less year time week before Corpus Christi meet entered won Novice contest Kelly Field truly rising star Thermal conditions during competi tion Corpus Christi unusual Jerrys airplane caught thermal almost immedi ately after launched went almost out sight wind shifted model returned again went almost out sight again came back time land ing far launch point Com et Zipper flown hour 10 minutes 552 seconds thought NAA record Senior class since Jerry hand launched model achievement couldnt officially acknowl edged An ROG rise-off-ground launch record requirements Needr Stock No _____ ______________ ______ I HANDLING CHARGE H k order act Card order cdo Order troot Aifrooo fh less say meet Jerrys Second place went Dewey Bonbrake Houston boy duration just over 50 minutes another hand-launched record time Open class Some contests included smallbore-engine event Corpus Christi meet Gene Hartmangruber came out top shuffle intended enter event model got snagged power line test flight early day didnt come down till award time breeze came up Toward end 1939 Hitler intensi fled war machine Europe model builders States having own microwar over what about Zipper blitz Carl Goldbergs celebrated model shaking up contest scene year proving absolutely unbeatable meet after meet could almost count Zip pers predict winnersexcept course flew out-of-sight lost Things certainly changed less three years Zipper blitz no however 1939 still good year 1940 rapid growth within NAAs Gas Model Division indicated need separate group control di rect operation model airplanes United States new organization formed beginning year af filiated both NAA Federa tion Aeronautique Internationale called Academy Model Aeronautics Model airplanes come age two-day static show auditorium Express Publishing Company kicked off publicity program May 1940 contest season Nearly 100 models various stages construction dis played Also open 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Those Days ed Lehmberg Wonder Change thought pioneer Power modelers easy back Thir ties saved early Gas movement being caught cross fire before off ground National Aeronau tic Association fliers own determination 4 mythical pair built wings selves might call first homebuilders certaialy couldnt called MANS FASCINATION flight age- modelers old Daedalus son Icarus the earliest self-taught aerodynam first try soaring through heavens icists perhaps first designer wings feathers wax model airplanes Leonardo da Vinci Left photo taken during th summer oi iu snows Buddy Frazier ieft Richard Sherman working Sherman-designed Rubber job buiit Frazier site lathe north side Jefferson High School driii field very popuiar site ali events except Gas Right photo taken winter 1973 deliberateiy out sequence show what becomes modelers after 35 years hobby Buddy Fra zier holding 1940-vintage Lanzo Stick Richard Sherman winds motor years notwithstanding both look pretty goodi author pictured news article Au gust 15 1937 after having initiated Junior Blrdmen organization spon sored San Antonio Light Hearst newspaper chain Two Outdoor two door competitive meets held year 72 Model Aviation copy original National Aeronautic Association charter NAA seal de signating San Antonio Society Model Engineers Gas Model Chapter NAA names SASME members listed document dated March 24 1938 1938 photo shows Bill Pfeil 36in-span Brat-powered modei weighed 166 oz Bill member 1938 Wakefield team competed France Herb Fisher 1938 Brown-powered Clipper first Clipper appear San Antonio Its floating flight charac teristics caused quite sensation 1938 Leonardos famed drawings flapped wing ornithopters executed around year 1500 show astonishing understand ing dynamics flight day Almost four centuries later models played key role development modern avi ation Samuel Pierpont Langley earliest pioneers build study mmThe second Clipper appear San Antonio Brown Jr-powered ship built Bob Rickard pictured model 1938 Bob race Herb have first Clipper field few days apart competition iature airplanes Langley scientist astronomer served third secre tary Smithsonian Institution built 40 rubber-powered models tween 1887 1895 called aero dromes Wilbur Orville Wright also built models discovering fascinations experimental value firsthand Like originators field Leonardo Langley Wright Brothers worked alone model aviation soli r 1938 winner seen owner Willie Ng appears Berkeley Courier Sportster lowered thrust line probably powered Willies favorite engine Brown Jr tary hobby country began change during late 1920s early 1930s Stirred glamour World War aviators movies such Wings Hells Angels exciting developments aviation re corded almost daily newspapers American public ready model avia tion Recognizing mood entrepreneurs formed small companies offering model building materials some crude kits gossamer-winged models Carl Goldberg boys Chicago turning outstanding flights Newspa pers department stores began organiz ing groups modelers such JordanMarsh Junior Aviator League Pulp magazines called because made newsprint came scene Though carried mainly fiction some pulps included three-view plans solid modelsnot WW contemporaneous aircraft also futuristic designs looked future inciden tally aerodynamicists period dis counted idea space flight certain i,, 4 November 1990 73 Another 1938 photo showing Oliver Pfeil Brown-powered original often flew Kelly Field brother Bill owned popular successful Model Airplane Shop San Antonios Broadway Herb ODell seen 1938 photo GHQ Sportster powered Mighty Midget m Ralph Pressler president SAGMAA 1938 putting cowl place beauti ful Rearwin Speedster may have powered Mighty Midget Ralph gracious ly supplied old club records news clippings used assemble story Left Orin Anderson 17 years old won Arizona State Gas Model Championship 1939 Phoenix Brown-powered Pacific Ace won him another Brown Jr Ohlsson 23 Right refreshment faciiity Keiiy Fieid contest photo probabiy taken 1940 shows ieft Ng Charies Adams Jack Harding Betty Fisher Carl Jonas iooks aii traded shoes Moore props surpass Though seemed no da Vincis day least ex perts resurrected 1898 declaration World Congress Scientists scientific advances late-19th-century group de cided made minor im provements discoveries possi ble newspaper sponsored two Outdoor two Indoor contests annually winners competing sponsors expense national Junior Birdmen Championship San Antonios Texas link Hearst chain San Antonio Light recall several top Birdmen Charlie Adams Fred Cordova Richard Sher man extremely competent events Charlie Fred best known outstanding throwing arms Hand-Launched Glider Dick ex celled Indoor Some years later Dick nar rowly missed making Wakefield team Unlike teenaged peers three young men always ready help out us novice builders just few years junior Go away kid bother sort thing gotten used hearing 15-year-old idols age 11 12 hurt Birdmen divided two class es Junior under 16 Senior under 21 Competition fierce particularly Sen ior contender didnt make town might visit relatives another try again winter small house trailer appeared vacant lot San Antonios south side San Antonio address modeler within eligible enter 1937 best recollection Indoor contest didnt 74 Model Aviation Singie-wheeled models very popuiar San Antonio 1939 Ralph Pressler left Herb Fisher right being assisted HL Shiiier center San Antonio Exchange Ciub getting modeis ready contest sponsored ciub rumor Mr Shiiier ieft set Wizard Oz assist contest compieteiy untrue rockets would never attain necessary ye- Founded famed Hearst Syndicate pub locity escape muzzle velocity lisher William Randolph Hearst Junior SAGMAA members ieft miles per second alsoBirdmen America became largest ofciub another Robert sevenA Sedgewick pictured cadet skeptical aircraft could ever match the groups promoting model aviation during 1939 iast heard speed soundand sure would never Golden Age Flight Hearst captain U S Army Air Corps 1942 summer 1940 search new competition inciuded Stunt event Ohisson 60-powered Cilpper right carried Atom-powered Ciipper Jr aloft both en gines running Ciipper Jr would reisased its pneumatic-controiied cradle go Its own way left Bud Frazier left Lee Sherman pose Ciipper combo Sherman owned Clipper Frazier Ciipper Jr Lee kiiied Burma 1943 win trip championships although believe did win hometown following year name Roy Mar quardt future founder Marquardt Aviation aerospace contrac tor thats still going strong today Theres example what promoting model avia tion can accomplish Gas model flying began come its own 1932 young man Philadel phia set world record gasoline-powered models two-minute 35-second flight prompted National Aeronautic As sociation sponsor meet sched uled following year 1933 contest same young man won Tex aco Trophy longest-flying Gas mod el Due way rules written also raked two trophies intended Rubber eventsthe now-fa mous Moffett Mulvihill trophies Need less say rules quickly revised 1940 contest New Braunfels TX tracted 25 entrants SAGMAA newer member Joe Borden pictured classy Comet Clipper came away victorious almost-forgotten long-ago event misunderstanding 1933 NAA meet proved divisive Model aviation began polarize two factionspro-Gas anti-Gas Several state legislatures made Gas model flying illegal suspect Hearsts influence largely responsible schism newspaper magnate took stand against Gas Paradoxically man done other promote model avia tion now doing best undermine important branch skillful writer can take facts about weight size airspeed skew lurid scenarios bear little resem blance reality Heating up contro versy stories appeared press telling fire-breathing engines tanks full ex plosive gasoline models tossed wan tonly sky cut loose pilots control could come crashing earth anywhere anytime 1 4-ft-span monster powered two Brown Juniors mounted above other built Bill Hewgley 1940 photo shows ship being launched Orin An derson left Willie Ng Willie also killed flying Hump Burma about 1943 Such stories must have conjured some alarming images typical suburbanite probably visualized himself sitting chair pretending read Popular Mechan ics children feet new rug reading Sunday funnies front ra dio Theyre listening Uncle Bob Just Uncle Bob reads horrible death sen tence Ming Magnificent laying Flash Gordon Professor Zharkov sneaking Dale Arden out Mings Harem happens abominable Gas models crashes through new picture win dow smacks children bursts flame terrible explosion Depression years remember fellow wouldnt have money re place window rug radio may never find out what hap pened Flash Dale professor children all miss course knows what outcome might have such alarmist views Gas model flying gone unchecked Fortunately National Aeronautic Association inter vened NAA organized Gas Model Di vision supported nationwide network Gas Model Chapters regional chap ters intended educate public about model aviation generally cham pion cause promoted contests shows other public displays communities November 1990 75 Toddle McQuatters 1940 beautifui Brown-powered Mk II Clipper Toddle also strong contender Rubber contests Louis Urfurth Mk II Clipper 1940 young son Billy rising star time rubber-powered craft HL Gliders 1941 photo shows 36-in-span Atom 09-powered Buzzard Bombshell being spected family cat model built Buddy Frazier Kits given away premiums subscribing Air Trails magazine subscription kit mere two dollars back Today just license cat would 25 dollars Left Ingenuity work Oliver Pfeii left brother Bill photographed sometime 1941 demonstrating camera placement novative Camera Clipper Right Orin Anderson young man photographed early 1942 displaying Brown Jr-powered Comet Clipper fact its largely due efforts NAA lobby championing model aviation Radio Control models legal today During Forties governments acute wartime need aviation expertise also boosted status model aviation Model ers specializing various branches hobby made themselves available mili tary aircraft production aero research San Antonio TX International Gas Model Airplane Association prompt align itself NAA effort San Antonio Evening News heralded devel opment January 1938 article T D Higgins Zooming Over Airdromes have just informed San An tonio members International Gas Model Airplane Association joining large-scale movement form Gas Model Division National Aeronautic Asso ciation Ralph Pressler president lo cal chapter IGMAA declared National Aeronautic Association seeking model airplane builders members chapter solidly behind move ment expects affiliated early March article went mention Press ler chosen represent San Anto nio Dallas following Saturday meeting called NAA plan two possibly three Gas model contests state during coming season Press ler quoted saying highly likely San Antonio would selected contest sites Gas Model Division write up continued will operated directly un der NAA supervision exercising full con trol over members NAA grants Gas model fliers licenses can revoke violation safety rules Higgins closed remarking permis sion Army Air Corps chapter flying Kelly Field Sunday morn ings test flights attract consid erable attention always well tended San Antonio Society Model Engi neers became Gas Model Chapter National Aeronautic Association March 24 1938 charter members Al fred Person Louis F Ridder Jr Gene Hart mangruber Ralph R Pressler RH Estes Jr Oliver Pfeil William Pfeil Jr PJ Cockrell JJ Cody Jr James E Kessler Jack Harding Carl Jonas Robert Sedgewick Anton Heisler Jr RT Rickard Jr served senior advisors Shortly after its inception club re named itself San Antonio Gas Model Airplane Association SAGMAA no evidence charter changed Well statement wrong its sure promptly corrected Anton Heisler created excellent club logo Which re produced pages about same time antiGas movement finally began weaken Junior Birdmen program shortly came end disbanding Jun ior Birdmen real pity Whether Hearst did out pique still de serves appreciation first promoters model airplane hobby organizer Junior Birdmen project SAGMAA meetings held Model Airplane Shop just few doors Houston Street Broadway shop owned Bill Ollie Pfeil Having begun shoestring two brothers moved location hardware store around block theyd single spartan showcase no engines Broadway location Pfeils created very nice store Later able expand leasing building next door knocking out wall Model Airplane Shop became best hobby shop San Antonio no wonder young Pfeil brothers pretty much lived hobby good businessmen well succeeding bet ter competitors ac complished think identifying customers giving sound advice sought brothers also pro moted contests offering excellent prizes sev eral times year shop became lunchtime visiting place everyone worked town anyone building space free use back room SAGMAA course held its meetings until out grew space moved either Dairyland Bordens Josephine Street became subject joke clouds recollection dairys name Bill Pfeil killed auto acci dent shortly after World War II began 01lie gave up shop full-scale aviation brothers also begun wholesalers hobby supplies number young people drawn model aviation because Bill Ollie Pfeil im possible estimate its surely high cherish own memories Incidentally another source model air craft San Antonio before war toy department Wolff & Marx store excellent collection Scale kits cluding some like Armstrong-Whitworth Quadraplane bought quite rare Ive never seen such kits else dont know Wolff & 76 Model Aviation first SAGMAA reunion took place May 1975 Standing left right Alfred Person Richard Sherman Tom Moore Claude Williams Jerry Schramm MR Hamilton Jerry Heller Ollie Pfeii Sitting left Buddy Frazier provided photo Kneeling mid dle row left right Ralph Pressier Clyde Stokes Jimmy Sommerselt front row left right Bill Hewgley Orin Anderson Percy Cockreii Jimmy Kessler recent SAGMAA reunion December 1965 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awarded 10th place First place went Herb Fisher fellow San Antonio residents Orin Ander son Bob Rickard taking sixth sev enth places respectively Herbs wife Betty Fisher won Womens Event Ever promoter Ralph Pressler came up some intriguing crowd pleasers well-attended contest PA nouncer almost entire day Pressler asked crowd applaud something unintentional happened field end day gave award con testant received loudest ap plause improvised award went John Udden Corpus Christi newspa per account didnt say what crowd applauded him Wrong Way Corrigan event other innovation Pressler took timely advantage popularity certain fuddled navigator named Corrigan gentleman believing himself flying over Kansas few other miscellaneous states union really crossed Atlantic Twenty-two contestants entered Wrong Way Corrigan placed models line facing wind withdrew another line 10 ft rear signal run machines later become Le Mans Start start en gines Thirty seconds later another sig nal fliers release models expected zoom up wind blown downwind first cross line 100 ft downwind win ner Needless say some colli sions takeoff As far crowd concerned case few Christians lions dust settled Bob Rickard San Antonio emerged fearless winner Bob also won first Austin Willie Ng did same Dallas Gene Hart mangruber came fourth Dallas meet 102 entrants estimated 10000 spectators San Antonio boys prowess wasnt limited fields Texas Bill Pfeil won place US Lord Wakefield team 1938 NAA Nationals fellow resi dent Richard Sherman came close Bill went France compete British trophy captured another US team member Jim Cahill Lafay Continued page 120 _______________________ U PIPER 50-75 R 74 IN WING FOAMAIRE 10 SPAN 30-33 LBSCCSPAN 6-7 LBS 45-60 POWER10 SPAN 19- L o-42 CC POWER 5-10 LB PAYLOAD OPTIONAL SPREADER4 CH PLY FOAM AND BALSA WOOD CHOOSE 3 OR 4 OH SLOW AND STABLE KIT $26995 SPDKIT$1995 T $69953 CH $14995 4 CH $16495 SEND $100 FOR CATALOGRT 1 NEODESHA KS 66757 OF SAC KITS AND ACC 325-2821 FREE 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training military pilots Just few years later number San Antonio boys partic ipated promotion duplicate filmed action served Army Air Corps Later still some SAG MAA members served Army Air Force United States Air Force like Dutch Sluder strong beginning NAA-SAGMAA alliance Goals met surpassed organiza tional meeting held end 1938 ca pable set officers headed Pressler elected 12-point program adopted 1939 Pressler overloaded work requiring organizational talents both SAGMAA Southwest Gas Model Association SWGMA regional collective NAA Gas Model Division chapters 12-point program included complet ing schedule model development ex perimentation scheduling open-house meet ings educate public about model avia tion improving management flying activities several locations Yes very good year Southwest Gas Model Association met Dallas early 1939 plan years contest schedule first meet slated Abilene May 14 followed San Antonio May 28 Houston June 11 Fort Worth June 25 Mineral Wells July 16 Dallas July 30 Corpus Christi Au gust 13 Waco August 27 Wichita Falls September 3 Austin tentatively scheduled August 13 same day Corpus Christi contest Obviously NAA Gas Model Chapters increased number force Youll notice al case two weeks rest pro vided between contests repair per haps SWGMA 1939 contest season well publicized local merchants ganizations such Exchange Clubs generous prize money fact end 1941 much thousand dollars available prizes SAGMAA coming nearly popular San Anto nio Missions ball club Texas League San Antonio still counted Herb Fisher Bob Rickard Orin Anderson Willie Ng Anton Heisler Percy Cockrell Alfred Person among its prominent model builders 1939 Carl Jonas Jack Harding Bob Sedgewick becoming competi tive though continued sport fly reg ularly Kelly Among newer members Joe Borden JA Carney son Jim Bill Hewgley Clyde Stokes Younger SAGMAA members making Rubber model scene over Thomas Jef ferson High School drill field Jack Goebel WL Vavricka Buddy Frazier Toddy McQuatters Hilton Mollenhauer Charles Barron Alfred Lehmberg large mowed field single small tree center excellent Rubber Free Flight tree course attracted models like magnet held con tests prevailing wind prevailed south un less found lift models generally stayed over field lift planes usu ally went quite high After passing over few nearby houses open coun try mesquite cactus diamondbacks seemed stretch way North Pole Before got know keeper castle lived campus fam ily ships landing roof Continued page 185 120 Model Aviation THE LEADER IN COMPETITION PROPELLERS 4 fI RC PYLON RACING SERIES 500 DIAPITCH PRICE 7SN 5N 8I67A7I8 SERIES 400C 86/,677/a7 977I7 W WIDE BLADE EW EXTRA WIDE N NARROW flap joiner center trailing edge Apply slow-curing epoxy cen ter wing slide way body Continually check alignment epoxy sets making certain wing 90 body viewed front above After wing has dried follow same steps stabilizer sure stab parallel wing equidis tant hinge line hinge line way across Install 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writing model five flights son took first place Novice spring 1989 contest Marietta GA little over month later Derek took second place first outing Intermediate Cincinnati Stunt trainer looks good air handles smoothly turns well fun fly Build find out Please write questions might have Dale Barry Rt 2 Box 264D2 Harlem GA 30814 Ill glad help SAGMAA/Lehmberg Continued page 120 high school could written off castlekeepers name Cannonball Smith loved put sugar cream mod els eat breakfast Around 1939 some us got talking Can nonball surprised learn lot fliers used high school field SAGMAA members read about activities Express Evening News Light newspapers put plane GUNFIGHTERS * POSITIVE FEEL * USED BY TOP PILOTS * FOR FUTABA AIRTRONIOS JR OTHERS PLEASE SPECIFY RADIO CA RES ADD 625% SALES TAX November 1990 185 IS PROUD JI TO ANNOUNCE THE WORLDS SMALLEST ON-BOARD GLO-SWITCH WIRE DIRECT OR Y INTO ANY RECEIVER OUTPUT INCLUDES REVERSING SWITCH ADJUSTABLE ON POINT AND LED INDICATOR HANDLES 0 TO 12 VOLTS AT UP TO 10 AMPS Tac auadad4 aC 44f&f CALL OR WRITE FOR MORE INFO JOMAR PRODUCTS513-474-0985ACTUAL 2028 Knightsbridge Dr Cinti OH 45244 SIZE roof would knock Cannonballs door hed take us roof model re trieval See what publicity public aware ness clout can model builder newspapers period no less hungry colorful incidents jazz up stories journalists today 1939 San Antonio meet won Sid Smart DallasSan Antonio couldnt win em J Carneys model sliced half propeller another As newspaper account related determined Mr Carney took ship home repaired returned finish remaining flights highly successful contest way 10000 spectators cheering over 100 contestants Ray Math ews also Dallas captured second place Doug Porter Corpus Christi came third San Antonios Alfred Person took fourth San Antonio boys scored two other tri umphs 1939 Orin Anderson won Ar izona State Championship Phoenix fly ing beautiful Pacific Ace powered Brown Junior Jerry Heller established almost world record 1939 Cor pus Christi meet first big meet Jerry ever entered fact hed building model aircraft less year time week before Corpus Christi meet entered won Novice contest Kelly Field truly rising star Thermal conditions during competi tion Corpus Christi unusual Jerrys airplane caught thermal almost immedi ately after launched went almost out sight wind shifted model returned again went almost out sight again came back time land ing far launch point Com et Zipper flown hour 10 minutes 552 seconds thought NAA record Senior class since Jerry hand launched model achievement couldnt officially acknowl edged An ROG rise-off-ground launch record requirements Needr Stock No _____ ______________ ______ I HANDLING CHARGE H k order act Card order cdo Order troot Aifrooo fh less say meet Jerrys Second place went Dewey Bonbrake Houston boy duration just over 50 minutes another hand-launched record time Open class Some contests included smallbore-engine event Corpus Christi meet Gene Hartmangruber came out top shuffle intended enter event model got snagged power line test flight early day didnt come down till award time breeze came up Toward end 1939 Hitler intensi fled war machine Europe model builders States having own microwar over what about Zipper blitz Carl Goldbergs celebrated model shaking up contest scene year proving absolutely unbeatable meet after meet could almost count Zip pers predict winnersexcept course flew out-of-sight lost Things certainly changed less three years Zipper blitz no however 1939 still good year 1940 rapid growth within NAAs Gas Model Division indicated need separate group control di rect operation model airplanes United States new organization formed beginning year af filiated both NAA Federa tion Aeronautique Internationale called Academy Model Aeronautics Model airplanes come age two-day static show auditorium Express Publishing Company kicked off publicity program May 1940 contest season Nearly 100 models various stages construction dis played Also open 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Those Days ed Lehmberg Wonder Change thought pioneer Power modelers easy back Thir ties saved early Gas movement being caught cross fire before off ground National Aeronau tic Association fliers own determination 4 mythical pair built wings selves might call first homebuilders certaialy couldnt called MANS FASCINATION flight age- modelers old Daedalus son Icarus the earliest self-taught aerodynam first try soaring through heavens icists perhaps first designer wings feathers wax model airplanes Leonardo da Vinci Left photo taken during th summer oi iu snows Buddy Frazier ieft Richard Sherman working Sherman-designed Rubber job buiit Frazier site lathe north side Jefferson High School driii field very popuiar site ali events except Gas Right photo taken winter 1973 deliberateiy out sequence show what becomes modelers after 35 years hobby Buddy Fra zier holding 1940-vintage Lanzo Stick Richard Sherman winds motor years notwithstanding both look pretty goodi author pictured news article Au gust 15 1937 after having initiated Junior Blrdmen organization spon sored San Antonio Light Hearst newspaper chain Two Outdoor two door competitive meets held year 72 Model Aviation copy original National Aeronautic Association charter NAA seal de signating San Antonio Society Model Engineers Gas Model Chapter NAA names SASME members listed document dated March 24 1938 1938 photo shows Bill Pfeil 36in-span Brat-powered modei weighed 166 oz Bill member 1938 Wakefield team competed France Herb Fisher 1938 Brown-powered Clipper first Clipper appear San Antonio Its floating flight charac teristics caused quite sensation 1938 Leonardos famed drawings flapped wing ornithopters executed around year 1500 show astonishing understand ing dynamics flight day Almost four centuries later models played key role development modern avi ation Samuel Pierpont Langley earliest pioneers build study mmThe second Clipper appear San Antonio Brown Jr-powered ship built Bob Rickard pictured model 1938 Bob race Herb have first Clipper field few days apart competition iature airplanes Langley scientist astronomer served third secre tary Smithsonian Institution built 40 rubber-powered models tween 1887 1895 called aero dromes Wilbur Orville Wright also built models discovering fascinations experimental value firsthand Like originators field Leonardo Langley Wright Brothers worked alone model aviation soli r 1938 winner seen owner Willie Ng appears Berkeley Courier Sportster lowered thrust line probably powered Willies favorite engine Brown Jr tary hobby country began change during late 1920s early 1930s Stirred glamour World War aviators movies such Wings Hells Angels exciting developments aviation re corded almost daily newspapers American public ready model avia tion Recognizing mood entrepreneurs formed small companies offering model building materials some crude kits gossamer-winged models Carl Goldberg boys Chicago turning outstanding flights Newspa pers department stores began organiz ing groups modelers such JordanMarsh Junior Aviator League Pulp magazines called because made newsprint came scene Though carried mainly fiction some pulps included three-view plans solid modelsnot WW contemporaneous aircraft also futuristic designs looked future inciden tally aerodynamicists period dis counted idea space flight certain i,, 4 November 1990 73 Another 1938 photo showing Oliver Pfeil Brown-powered original often flew Kelly Field brother Bill owned popular successful Model Airplane Shop San Antonios Broadway Herb ODell seen 1938 photo GHQ Sportster powered Mighty Midget m Ralph Pressler president SAGMAA 1938 putting cowl place beauti ful Rearwin Speedster may have powered Mighty Midget Ralph gracious ly supplied old club records news clippings used assemble story Left Orin Anderson 17 years old won Arizona State Gas Model Championship 1939 Phoenix Brown-powered Pacific Ace won him another Brown Jr Ohlsson 23 Right refreshment faciiity Keiiy Fieid contest photo probabiy taken 1940 shows ieft Ng Charies Adams Jack Harding Betty Fisher Carl Jonas iooks aii traded shoes Moore props surpass Though seemed no da Vincis day least ex perts resurrected 1898 declaration World Congress Scientists scientific advances late-19th-century group de cided made minor im provements discoveries possi ble newspaper sponsored two Outdoor two Indoor contests annually winners competing sponsors expense national Junior Birdmen Championship San Antonios Texas link Hearst chain San Antonio Light recall several top Birdmen Charlie Adams Fred Cordova Richard Sher man extremely competent events Charlie Fred best known outstanding throwing arms Hand-Launched Glider Dick ex celled Indoor Some years later Dick nar rowly missed making Wakefield team Unlike teenaged peers three young men always ready help out us novice builders just few years junior Go away kid bother sort thing gotten used hearing 15-year-old idols age 11 12 hurt Birdmen divided two class es Junior under 16 Senior under 21 Competition fierce particularly Sen ior contender didnt make town might visit relatives another try again winter small house trailer appeared vacant lot San Antonios south side San Antonio address modeler within eligible enter 1937 best recollection Indoor contest didnt 74 Model Aviation Singie-wheeled models very popuiar San Antonio 1939 Ralph Pressler left Herb Fisher right being assisted HL Shiiier center San Antonio Exchange Ciub getting modeis ready contest sponsored ciub rumor Mr Shiiier ieft set Wizard Oz assist contest compieteiy untrue rockets would never attain necessary ye- Founded famed Hearst Syndicate pub locity escape muzzle velocity lisher William Randolph Hearst Junior SAGMAA members ieft miles per second alsoBirdmen America became largest ofciub another Robert sevenA Sedgewick pictured cadet skeptical aircraft could ever match the groups promoting model aviation during 1939 iast heard speed soundand sure would never Golden Age Flight Hearst captain U S Army Air Corps 1942 summer 1940 search new competition inciuded Stunt event Ohisson 60-powered Cilpper right carried Atom-powered Ciipper Jr aloft both en gines running Ciipper Jr would reisased its pneumatic-controiied cradle go Its own way left Bud Frazier left Lee Sherman pose Ciipper combo Sherman owned Clipper Frazier Ciipper Jr Lee kiiied Burma 1943 win trip championships although believe did win hometown following year name Roy Mar quardt future founder Marquardt Aviation aerospace contrac tor thats still going strong today Theres example what promoting model avia tion can accomplish Gas model flying began come its own 1932 young man Philadel phia set world record gasoline-powered models two-minute 35-second flight prompted National Aeronautic As sociation sponsor meet sched uled following year 1933 contest same young man won Tex aco Trophy longest-flying Gas mod el Due way rules written also raked two trophies intended Rubber eventsthe now-fa mous Moffett Mulvihill trophies Need less say rules quickly revised 1940 contest New Braunfels TX tracted 25 entrants SAGMAA newer member Joe Borden pictured classy Comet Clipper came away victorious almost-forgotten long-ago event misunderstanding 1933 NAA meet proved divisive Model aviation began polarize two factionspro-Gas anti-Gas Several state legislatures made Gas model flying illegal suspect Hearsts influence largely responsible schism newspaper magnate took stand against Gas Paradoxically man done other promote model avia tion now doing best undermine important branch skillful writer can take facts about weight size airspeed skew lurid scenarios bear little resem blance reality Heating up contro versy stories appeared press telling fire-breathing engines tanks full ex plosive gasoline models tossed wan tonly sky cut loose pilots control could come crashing earth anywhere anytime 1 4-ft-span monster powered two Brown Juniors mounted above other built Bill Hewgley 1940 photo shows ship being launched Orin An derson left Willie Ng Willie also killed flying Hump Burma about 1943 Such stories must have conjured some alarming images typical suburbanite probably visualized himself sitting chair pretending read Popular Mechan ics children feet new rug reading Sunday funnies front ra dio Theyre listening Uncle Bob Just Uncle Bob reads horrible death sen tence Ming Magnificent laying Flash Gordon Professor Zharkov sneaking Dale Arden out Mings Harem happens abominable Gas models crashes through new picture win dow smacks children bursts flame terrible explosion Depression years remember fellow wouldnt have money re place window rug radio may never find out what hap pened Flash Dale professor children all miss course knows what outcome might have such alarmist views Gas model flying gone unchecked Fortunately National Aeronautic Association inter vened NAA organized Gas Model Di vision supported nationwide network Gas Model Chapters regional chap ters intended educate public about model aviation generally cham pion cause promoted contests shows other public displays communities November 1990 75 Toddle McQuatters 1940 beautifui Brown-powered Mk II Clipper Toddle also strong contender Rubber contests Louis Urfurth Mk II Clipper 1940 young son Billy rising star time rubber-powered craft HL Gliders 1941 photo shows 36-in-span Atom 09-powered Buzzard Bombshell being spected family cat model built Buddy Frazier Kits given away premiums subscribing Air Trails magazine subscription kit mere two dollars back Today just license cat would 25 dollars Left Ingenuity work Oliver Pfeii left brother Bill photographed sometime 1941 demonstrating camera placement novative Camera Clipper Right Orin Anderson young man photographed early 1942 displaying Brown Jr-powered Comet Clipper fact its largely due efforts NAA lobby championing model aviation Radio Control models legal today During Forties governments acute wartime need aviation expertise also boosted status model aviation Model ers specializing various branches hobby made themselves available mili tary aircraft production aero research San Antonio TX International Gas Model Airplane Association prompt align itself NAA effort San Antonio Evening News heralded devel opment January 1938 article T D Higgins Zooming Over Airdromes have just informed San An tonio members International Gas Model Airplane Association joining large-scale movement form Gas Model Division National Aeronautic Asso ciation Ralph Pressler president lo cal chapter IGMAA declared National Aeronautic Association seeking model airplane builders members chapter solidly behind move ment expects affiliated early March article went mention Press ler chosen represent San Anto nio Dallas following Saturday meeting called NAA plan two possibly three Gas model contests state during coming season Press ler quoted saying highly likely San Antonio would selected contest sites Gas Model Division write up continued will operated directly un der NAA supervision exercising full con trol over members NAA grants Gas model fliers licenses can revoke violation safety rules Higgins closed remarking permis sion Army Air Corps chapter flying Kelly Field Sunday morn ings test flights attract consid erable attention always well tended San Antonio Society Model Engi neers became Gas Model Chapter National Aeronautic Association March 24 1938 charter members Al fred Person Louis F Ridder Jr Gene Hart mangruber Ralph R Pressler RH Estes Jr Oliver Pfeil William Pfeil Jr PJ Cockrell JJ Cody Jr James E Kessler Jack Harding Carl Jonas Robert Sedgewick Anton Heisler Jr RT Rickard Jr served senior advisors Shortly after its inception club re named itself San Antonio Gas Model Airplane Association SAGMAA no evidence charter changed Well statement wrong its sure promptly corrected Anton Heisler created excellent club logo Which re produced pages about same time antiGas movement finally began weaken Junior Birdmen program shortly came end disbanding Jun ior Birdmen real pity Whether Hearst did out pique still de serves appreciation first promoters model airplane hobby organizer Junior Birdmen project SAGMAA meetings held Model Airplane Shop just few doors Houston Street Broadway shop owned Bill Ollie Pfeil Having begun shoestring two brothers moved location hardware store around block theyd single spartan showcase no engines Broadway location Pfeils created very nice store Later able expand leasing building next door knocking out wall Model Airplane Shop became best hobby shop San Antonio no wonder young Pfeil brothers pretty much lived hobby good businessmen well succeeding bet ter competitors ac complished think identifying customers giving sound advice sought brothers also pro moted contests offering excellent prizes sev eral times year shop became lunchtime visiting place everyone worked town anyone building space free use back room SAGMAA course held its meetings until out grew space moved either Dairyland Bordens Josephine Street became subject joke clouds recollection dairys name Bill Pfeil killed auto acci dent shortly after World War II began 01lie gave up shop full-scale aviation brothers also begun wholesalers hobby supplies number young people drawn model aviation because Bill Ollie Pfeil im possible estimate its surely high cherish own memories Incidentally another source model air craft San Antonio before war toy department Wolff & Marx store excellent collection Scale kits cluding some like Armstrong-Whitworth Quadraplane bought quite rare Ive never seen such kits else dont know Wolff & 76 Model Aviation first SAGMAA reunion took place May 1975 Standing left right Alfred Person Richard Sherman Tom Moore Claude Williams Jerry Schramm MR Hamilton Jerry Heller Ollie Pfeii Sitting left Buddy Frazier provided photo Kneeling mid dle row left right Ralph Pressier Clyde Stokes Jimmy Sommerselt front row left right Bill Hewgley Orin Anderson Percy Cockreii Jimmy Kessler recent SAGMAA reunion December 1965 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training military pilots Just few years later number San Antonio boys partic ipated promotion duplicate filmed action served Army Air Corps Later still some SAG MAA members served Army Air Force United States Air Force like Dutch Sluder strong beginning NAA-SAGMAA alliance Goals met surpassed organiza tional meeting held end 1938 ca pable set officers headed Pressler elected 12-point program adopted 1939 Pressler overloaded work requiring organizational talents both SAGMAA Southwest Gas Model Association SWGMA regional collective NAA Gas Model Division chapters 12-point program included complet ing schedule model development ex perimentation scheduling open-house meet ings educate public about model avia tion improving management flying activities several locations Yes very good year Southwest Gas Model Association met Dallas early 1939 plan years contest schedule first meet slated Abilene May 14 followed San Antonio May 28 Houston June 11 Fort Worth June 25 Mineral Wells July 16 Dallas July 30 Corpus Christi Au gust 13 Waco August 27 Wichita Falls September 3 Austin tentatively scheduled August 13 same day Corpus Christi contest Obviously NAA Gas Model Chapters increased number force Youll notice al case two weeks rest pro vided between contests repair per haps SWGMA 1939 contest season well publicized local merchants ganizations such Exchange Clubs generous prize money fact end 1941 much thousand dollars available prizes SAGMAA coming nearly popular San Anto nio Missions ball club Texas League San Antonio still counted Herb Fisher Bob Rickard Orin Anderson Willie Ng Anton Heisler Percy Cockrell Alfred Person among its prominent model builders 1939 Carl Jonas Jack Harding Bob Sedgewick becoming competi tive though continued sport fly reg ularly Kelly Among newer members Joe Borden JA Carney son Jim Bill Hewgley Clyde Stokes Younger SAGMAA members making Rubber model scene over Thomas Jef ferson High School drill field Jack Goebel WL Vavricka Buddy Frazier 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Christi meet first big meet Jerry ever entered fact hed building model aircraft less year time week before Corpus Christi meet entered won Novice contest Kelly Field truly rising star Thermal conditions during competi tion Corpus Christi unusual Jerrys airplane caught thermal almost immedi ately after launched went almost out sight wind shifted model returned again went almost out sight again came back time land ing far launch point Com et Zipper flown hour 10 minutes 552 seconds thought NAA record Senior class since Jerry hand launched model achievement couldnt officially acknowl edged An ROG rise-off-ground launch record requirements Needr Stock No _____ ______________ ______ I HANDLING CHARGE H k order act Card order cdo Order troot Aifrooo fh less say meet Jerrys Second place went Dewey Bonbrake Houston boy duration just over 50 minutes another hand-launched record time Open class Some contests included smallbore-engine event Corpus Christi meet Gene Hartmangruber came out top 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Those Days ed Lehmberg Wonder Change thought pioneer Power modelers easy back Thir ties saved early Gas movement being caught cross fire before off ground National Aeronau tic Association fliers own determination 4 mythical pair built wings selves might call first homebuilders certaialy couldnt called MANS FASCINATION flight age- modelers old Daedalus son Icarus the earliest self-taught aerodynam first try soaring through heavens icists perhaps first designer wings feathers wax model airplanes Leonardo da Vinci Left photo taken during th summer oi iu snows Buddy Frazier ieft Richard Sherman working Sherman-designed Rubber job buiit Frazier site lathe north side Jefferson High School driii field very popuiar site ali events except Gas Right photo taken winter 1973 deliberateiy out sequence show what becomes modelers after 35 years hobby Buddy Fra zier holding 1940-vintage Lanzo Stick Richard Sherman winds motor years notwithstanding both look pretty goodi author pictured news article Au gust 15 1937 after having initiated Junior Blrdmen organization spon sored San Antonio Light Hearst newspaper chain Two Outdoor two door competitive meets held year 72 Model Aviation copy original National Aeronautic Association charter NAA seal de signating San Antonio Society Model Engineers Gas Model Chapter NAA names SASME members listed document dated March 24 1938 1938 photo shows Bill Pfeil 36in-span Brat-powered modei weighed 166 oz Bill member 1938 Wakefield team competed France Herb Fisher 1938 Brown-powered Clipper first Clipper appear San Antonio Its floating flight charac teristics caused quite sensation 1938 Leonardos famed drawings flapped wing ornithopters executed around year 1500 show astonishing understand ing dynamics flight day Almost four centuries later models played key role development modern avi ation Samuel Pierpont Langley earliest pioneers build study mmThe second Clipper appear San Antonio Brown Jr-powered ship built Bob Rickard pictured model 1938 Bob race Herb have first Clipper field few days apart competition iature airplanes Langley scientist astronomer served third secre tary Smithsonian Institution built 40 rubber-powered models tween 1887 1895 called aero dromes Wilbur Orville Wright also built models discovering fascinations experimental value firsthand Like originators field Leonardo Langley Wright Brothers worked alone model aviation soli r 1938 winner seen owner Willie Ng appears Berkeley Courier Sportster lowered thrust line probably powered Willies favorite engine Brown Jr tary hobby country began change during late 1920s early 1930s Stirred glamour World War aviators movies such Wings Hells Angels exciting developments aviation re corded almost daily newspapers American public ready model avia tion Recognizing mood entrepreneurs formed small companies offering model building materials some crude kits gossamer-winged models Carl Goldberg boys Chicago turning outstanding flights Newspa pers department stores began organiz ing groups modelers such JordanMarsh Junior Aviator League Pulp magazines called because made newsprint came scene Though carried mainly fiction some pulps included three-view plans solid modelsnot WW contemporaneous aircraft also futuristic designs looked future inciden tally aerodynamicists period dis counted idea space flight certain i,, 4 November 1990 73 Another 1938 photo showing Oliver Pfeil Brown-powered original often flew Kelly Field brother Bill owned popular successful Model Airplane Shop San Antonios Broadway Herb ODell seen 1938 photo GHQ Sportster powered Mighty Midget m Ralph Pressler president SAGMAA 1938 putting cowl place beauti ful Rearwin Speedster may have powered Mighty Midget Ralph gracious ly supplied old club records news clippings used assemble story Left Orin Anderson 17 years old won Arizona State Gas Model Championship 1939 Phoenix Brown-powered Pacific Ace won him another Brown Jr Ohlsson 23 Right refreshment faciiity Keiiy Fieid contest photo probabiy taken 1940 shows ieft Ng Charies Adams Jack Harding Betty Fisher Carl Jonas iooks aii traded shoes Moore props surpass Though seemed no da Vincis day least ex perts resurrected 1898 declaration World Congress Scientists scientific advances late-19th-century group de cided made minor im provements discoveries possi ble newspaper sponsored two Outdoor two Indoor contests annually winners competing sponsors expense national Junior Birdmen Championship San Antonios Texas link Hearst chain San Antonio Light recall several top Birdmen Charlie Adams Fred Cordova Richard Sher man extremely competent events Charlie Fred best known outstanding throwing arms Hand-Launched Glider Dick ex celled Indoor Some years later Dick nar rowly missed making Wakefield team Unlike teenaged peers three young men always ready help out us novice builders just few years junior Go away kid bother sort thing gotten used hearing 15-year-old idols age 11 12 hurt Birdmen divided two class es Junior under 16 Senior under 21 Competition fierce particularly Sen ior contender didnt make town might visit relatives another try again winter small house trailer appeared vacant lot San Antonios south side San Antonio address modeler within eligible enter 1937 best recollection Indoor contest didnt 74 Model Aviation Singie-wheeled models very popuiar San Antonio 1939 Ralph Pressler left Herb Fisher right being assisted HL Shiiier center San Antonio Exchange Ciub getting modeis ready contest sponsored ciub rumor Mr Shiiier ieft set Wizard Oz assist contest compieteiy untrue rockets would never attain necessary ye- Founded famed Hearst Syndicate pub locity escape muzzle velocity lisher William Randolph Hearst Junior SAGMAA members ieft miles per second alsoBirdmen America became largest ofciub another Robert sevenA Sedgewick pictured cadet skeptical aircraft could ever match the groups promoting model aviation during 1939 iast heard speed soundand sure would never Golden Age Flight Hearst captain U S Army Air Corps 1942 summer 1940 search new competition inciuded Stunt event Ohisson 60-powered Cilpper right carried Atom-powered Ciipper Jr aloft both en gines running Ciipper Jr would reisased its pneumatic-controiied cradle go Its own way left Bud Frazier left Lee Sherman pose Ciipper combo Sherman owned Clipper Frazier Ciipper Jr Lee kiiied Burma 1943 win trip championships although believe did win hometown following year name Roy Mar quardt future founder Marquardt Aviation aerospace contrac tor thats still going strong today Theres example what promoting model avia tion can accomplish Gas model flying began come its own 1932 young man Philadel phia set world record gasoline-powered models two-minute 35-second flight prompted National Aeronautic As sociation sponsor meet sched uled following year 1933 contest same young man won Tex aco Trophy longest-flying Gas mod el Due way rules written also raked two trophies intended Rubber eventsthe now-fa mous Moffett Mulvihill trophies Need less say rules quickly revised 1940 contest New Braunfels TX tracted 25 entrants SAGMAA newer member Joe Borden pictured classy Comet Clipper came away victorious almost-forgotten long-ago event misunderstanding 1933 NAA meet proved divisive Model aviation began polarize two factionspro-Gas anti-Gas Several state legislatures made Gas model flying illegal suspect Hearsts influence largely responsible schism newspaper magnate took stand against Gas Paradoxically man done other promote model avia tion now doing best undermine important branch skillful writer can take facts about weight size airspeed skew lurid scenarios bear little resem blance reality Heating up contro versy stories appeared press telling fire-breathing engines tanks full ex plosive gasoline models tossed wan tonly sky cut loose pilots control could come crashing earth anywhere anytime 1 4-ft-span monster powered two Brown Juniors mounted above other built Bill Hewgley 1940 photo shows ship being launched Orin An derson left Willie Ng Willie also killed flying Hump Burma about 1943 Such stories must have conjured some alarming images typical suburbanite probably visualized himself sitting chair pretending read Popular Mechan ics children feet new rug reading Sunday funnies front ra dio Theyre listening Uncle Bob Just Uncle Bob reads horrible death sen tence Ming Magnificent laying Flash Gordon Professor Zharkov sneaking Dale Arden out Mings Harem happens abominable Gas models crashes through new picture win dow smacks children bursts flame terrible explosion Depression years remember fellow wouldnt have money re place window rug radio may never find out what hap pened Flash Dale professor children all miss course knows what outcome might have such alarmist views Gas model flying gone unchecked Fortunately National Aeronautic Association inter vened NAA organized Gas Model Di vision supported nationwide network Gas Model Chapters regional chap ters intended educate public about model aviation generally cham pion cause promoted contests shows other public displays communities November 1990 75 Toddle McQuatters 1940 beautifui Brown-powered Mk II Clipper Toddle also strong contender Rubber contests Louis Urfurth Mk II Clipper 1940 young son Billy rising star time rubber-powered craft HL Gliders 1941 photo shows 36-in-span Atom 09-powered Buzzard Bombshell being spected family cat model built Buddy Frazier Kits given away premiums subscribing Air Trails magazine subscription kit mere two dollars back Today just license cat would 25 dollars Left Ingenuity work Oliver Pfeii left brother Bill photographed sometime 1941 demonstrating camera placement novative Camera Clipper Right Orin Anderson young man photographed early 1942 displaying Brown Jr-powered Comet Clipper fact its largely due efforts NAA lobby championing model aviation Radio Control models legal today During Forties governments acute wartime need aviation expertise also boosted status model aviation Model ers specializing various branches hobby made themselves available mili tary aircraft production aero research San Antonio TX International Gas Model Airplane Association prompt align itself NAA effort San Antonio Evening News heralded devel opment January 1938 article T D Higgins Zooming Over Airdromes have just informed San An tonio members International Gas Model Airplane Association joining large-scale movement form Gas Model Division National Aeronautic Asso ciation Ralph Pressler president lo cal chapter IGMAA declared National Aeronautic Association seeking model airplane builders members chapter solidly behind move ment expects affiliated early March article went mention Press ler chosen represent San Anto nio Dallas following Saturday meeting called NAA plan two possibly three Gas model contests state during coming season Press ler quoted saying highly likely San Antonio would selected contest sites Gas Model Division write up continued will operated directly un der NAA supervision exercising full con trol over members NAA grants Gas model fliers licenses can revoke violation safety rules Higgins closed remarking permis sion Army Air Corps chapter flying Kelly Field Sunday morn ings test flights attract consid erable attention always well tended San Antonio Society Model Engi neers became Gas Model Chapter National Aeronautic Association March 24 1938 charter members Al fred Person Louis F Ridder Jr Gene Hart mangruber Ralph R Pressler RH Estes Jr Oliver Pfeil William Pfeil Jr PJ Cockrell JJ Cody Jr James E Kessler Jack Harding Carl Jonas Robert Sedgewick Anton Heisler Jr RT Rickard Jr served senior advisors Shortly after its inception club re named itself San Antonio Gas Model Airplane Association SAGMAA no evidence charter changed Well statement wrong its sure promptly corrected Anton Heisler created excellent club logo Which re produced pages about same time antiGas movement finally began weaken Junior Birdmen program shortly came end disbanding Jun ior Birdmen real pity Whether Hearst did out pique still de serves appreciation first promoters model airplane hobby organizer Junior Birdmen project SAGMAA meetings held Model Airplane Shop just few doors Houston Street Broadway shop owned Bill Ollie Pfeil Having begun shoestring two brothers moved location hardware store around block theyd single spartan showcase no engines Broadway location Pfeils created very nice store Later able expand leasing building next door knocking out wall Model Airplane Shop became best hobby shop San Antonio no wonder young Pfeil brothers pretty much lived hobby good businessmen well succeeding bet ter competitors ac complished think identifying customers giving sound advice sought brothers also pro moted contests offering excellent prizes sev eral times year shop became lunchtime visiting place everyone worked town anyone building space free use back room SAGMAA course held its meetings until out grew space moved either Dairyland Bordens Josephine Street became subject joke clouds recollection dairys name Bill Pfeil killed auto acci dent shortly after World War II began 01lie gave up shop full-scale aviation brothers also begun wholesalers hobby supplies number young people drawn model aviation because Bill Ollie Pfeil im possible estimate its surely high cherish own memories Incidentally another source model air craft San Antonio before war toy department Wolff & Marx store excellent collection Scale kits cluding some like Armstrong-Whitworth Quadraplane bought quite rare Ive never seen such kits else dont know Wolff & 76 Model Aviation first SAGMAA reunion took place May 1975 Standing left right Alfred Person Richard Sherman Tom Moore Claude Williams Jerry Schramm MR Hamilton Jerry Heller Ollie Pfeii Sitting left Buddy Frazier provided photo Kneeling mid dle row left right Ralph Pressier Clyde Stokes Jimmy Sommerselt front row left right Bill Hewgley Orin Anderson Percy Cockreii Jimmy Kessler recent SAGMAA reunion December 1965 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awarded 10th place First place went Herb Fisher fellow San Antonio residents Orin Ander son Bob Rickard taking sixth sev enth places respectively Herbs wife Betty Fisher won Womens Event Ever promoter Ralph Pressler came up some intriguing crowd pleasers well-attended contest PA nouncer almost entire day Pressler asked crowd applaud something unintentional happened field end day gave award con testant received loudest ap plause improvised award went John Udden Corpus Christi newspa per account didnt say what crowd applauded him Wrong Way Corrigan event other innovation Pressler took timely advantage popularity certain fuddled navigator named Corrigan gentleman believing himself flying over Kansas few other miscellaneous states union really crossed Atlantic Twenty-two contestants entered Wrong Way Corrigan placed models line facing wind withdrew another line 10 ft rear signal run machines later become Le Mans Start start en gines Thirty seconds later another sig nal fliers release models expected zoom up wind blown downwind first cross line 100 ft downwind win ner Needless say some colli sions takeoff As far crowd concerned case few Christians lions dust settled Bob Rickard San Antonio emerged fearless winner Bob also won first Austin Willie Ng did same Dallas Gene Hart mangruber came fourth Dallas meet 102 entrants estimated 10000 spectators San Antonio boys prowess wasnt limited fields Texas Bill Pfeil won place US Lord Wakefield team 1938 NAA Nationals fellow resi dent Richard Sherman came close Bill went France compete British trophy captured another US team member Jim Cahill Lafay Continued page 120 _______________________ U PIPER 50-75 R 74 IN WING FOAMAIRE 10 SPAN 30-33 LBSCCSPAN 6-7 LBS 45-60 POWER10 SPAN 19- L o-42 CC POWER 5-10 LB PAYLOAD OPTIONAL SPREADER4 CH PLY FOAM AND BALSA WOOD CHOOSE 3 OR 4 OH SLOW AND STABLE KIT $26995 SPDKIT$1995 T $69953 CH $14995 4 CH $16495 SEND $100 FOR CATALOGRT 1 NEODESHA KS 66757 OF SAC KITS AND ACC 325-2821 FREE 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training military pilots Just few years later number San Antonio boys partic ipated promotion duplicate filmed action served Army Air Corps Later still some SAG MAA members served Army Air Force United States Air Force like Dutch Sluder strong beginning NAA-SAGMAA alliance Goals met surpassed organiza tional meeting held end 1938 ca pable set officers headed Pressler elected 12-point program adopted 1939 Pressler overloaded work requiring organizational talents both SAGMAA Southwest Gas Model Association SWGMA regional collective NAA Gas Model Division chapters 12-point program included complet ing schedule model development ex perimentation scheduling open-house meet ings educate public about model avia tion improving management flying activities several locations Yes very good year Southwest Gas Model Association met Dallas early 1939 plan years contest schedule first meet slated Abilene May 14 followed San Antonio May 28 Houston June 11 Fort Worth June 25 Mineral Wells July 16 Dallas July 30 Corpus Christi Au gust 13 Waco August 27 Wichita Falls September 3 Austin tentatively scheduled August 13 same day Corpus Christi contest Obviously NAA Gas Model Chapters increased number force Youll notice al case two weeks rest pro vided between contests repair per haps SWGMA 1939 contest season well publicized local merchants ganizations such Exchange Clubs generous prize money fact end 1941 much thousand dollars available prizes SAGMAA coming nearly popular San Anto nio Missions ball club Texas League San Antonio still counted Herb Fisher Bob Rickard Orin Anderson Willie Ng Anton Heisler Percy Cockrell Alfred Person among its prominent model builders 1939 Carl Jonas Jack Harding Bob Sedgewick becoming competi tive though continued sport fly reg ularly Kelly Among newer members Joe Borden JA Carney son Jim Bill Hewgley Clyde Stokes Younger SAGMAA members making Rubber model scene over Thomas Jef ferson High School drill field Jack Goebel WL Vavricka Buddy Frazier Toddy McQuatters Hilton Mollenhauer Charles Barron Alfred Lehmberg large mowed field single small tree center excellent Rubber Free Flight tree course attracted models like magnet held con tests prevailing wind prevailed south un less found lift models generally stayed over field lift planes usu ally went quite high After passing over few nearby houses open coun try mesquite cactus diamondbacks seemed stretch way North Pole Before got know keeper castle lived campus fam ily ships landing roof Continued page 185 120 Model Aviation THE LEADER IN COMPETITION PROPELLERS 4 fI RC PYLON RACING SERIES 500 DIAPITCH PRICE 7SN 5N 8I67A7I8 SERIES 400C 86/,677/a7 977I7 W WIDE BLADE EW EXTRA WIDE N NARROW flap joiner center trailing edge Apply slow-curing epoxy cen ter wing slide way body Continually check alignment epoxy sets making certain wing 90 body viewed front above After wing has dried follow same steps stabilizer sure stab parallel wing equidis tant hinge line hinge line way across Install 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writing model five flights son took first place Novice spring 1989 contest Marietta GA little over month later Derek took second place first outing Intermediate Cincinnati Stunt trainer looks good air handles smoothly turns well fun fly Build find out Please write questions might have Dale Barry Rt 2 Box 264D2 Harlem GA 30814 Ill glad help SAGMAA/Lehmberg Continued page 120 high school could written off castlekeepers name Cannonball Smith loved put sugar cream mod els eat breakfast Around 1939 some us got talking Can nonball surprised learn lot fliers used high school field SAGMAA members read about activities Express Evening News Light newspapers put plane GUNFIGHTERS * POSITIVE FEEL * USED BY TOP PILOTS * FOR FUTABA AIRTRONIOS JR OTHERS PLEASE SPECIFY RADIO CA RES ADD 625% SALES TAX November 1990 185 IS PROUD JI TO ANNOUNCE THE WORLDS SMALLEST ON-BOARD GLO-SWITCH WIRE DIRECT OR Y INTO ANY RECEIVER OUTPUT INCLUDES REVERSING SWITCH ADJUSTABLE ON POINT AND LED INDICATOR HANDLES 0 TO 12 VOLTS AT UP TO 10 AMPS Tac auadad4 aC 44f&f CALL OR WRITE FOR MORE INFO JOMAR PRODUCTS513-474-0985ACTUAL 2028 Knightsbridge Dr Cinti OH 45244 SIZE roof would knock Cannonballs door hed take us roof model re trieval See what publicity public aware ness clout can model builder newspapers period no less hungry colorful incidents jazz up stories journalists today 1939 San Antonio meet won Sid Smart DallasSan Antonio couldnt win em J Carneys model sliced half propeller another As newspaper account related determined Mr Carney took ship home repaired returned finish remaining flights highly successful contest way 10000 spectators cheering over 100 contestants Ray Math ews also Dallas captured second place Doug Porter Corpus Christi came third San Antonios Alfred Person took fourth San Antonio boys scored two other tri umphs 1939 Orin Anderson won Ar izona State Championship Phoenix fly ing beautiful Pacific Ace powered Brown Junior Jerry Heller established almost world record 1939 Cor pus Christi meet first big meet Jerry ever entered fact hed building model aircraft less year time week before Corpus Christi meet entered won Novice contest Kelly Field truly rising star Thermal conditions during competi tion Corpus Christi unusual Jerrys airplane caught thermal almost immedi ately after launched went almost out sight wind shifted model returned again went almost out sight again came back time land ing far launch point Com et Zipper flown hour 10 minutes 552 seconds thought NAA record Senior class since Jerry hand launched model achievement couldnt officially acknowl edged An ROG rise-off-ground launch record requirements Needr Stock No _____ ______________ ______ I HANDLING CHARGE H k order act Card order cdo Order troot Aifrooo fh less say meet Jerrys Second place went Dewey Bonbrake Houston boy duration just over 50 minutes another hand-launched record time Open class Some contests included smallbore-engine event Corpus Christi meet Gene Hartmangruber came out top shuffle intended enter event model got snagged power line test flight early day didnt come down till award time breeze came up Toward end 1939 Hitler intensi fled war machine Europe model builders States having own microwar over what about Zipper blitz Carl Goldbergs celebrated model shaking up contest scene year proving absolutely unbeatable meet after meet could almost count Zip pers predict winnersexcept course flew out-of-sight lost Things certainly changed less three years Zipper blitz no however 1939 still good year 1940 rapid growth within NAAs Gas Model Division indicated need separate group control di rect operation model airplanes United States new organization formed beginning year af filiated both NAA Federa tion Aeronautique Internationale called Academy Model Aeronautics Model airplanes come age two-day static show auditorium Express Publishing Company kicked off publicity program May 1940 contest season Nearly 100 models various stages construction dis played Also open 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Those Days ed Lehmberg Wonder Change thought pioneer Power modelers easy back Thir ties saved early Gas movement being caught cross fire before off ground National Aeronau tic Association fliers own determination 4 mythical pair built wings selves might call first homebuilders certaialy couldnt called MANS FASCINATION flight age- modelers old Daedalus son Icarus the earliest self-taught aerodynam first try soaring through heavens icists perhaps first designer wings feathers wax model airplanes Leonardo da Vinci Left photo taken during th summer oi iu snows Buddy Frazier ieft Richard Sherman working Sherman-designed Rubber job buiit Frazier site lathe north side Jefferson High School driii field very popuiar site ali events except Gas Right photo taken winter 1973 deliberateiy out sequence show what becomes modelers after 35 years hobby Buddy Fra zier holding 1940-vintage Lanzo Stick Richard Sherman winds motor years notwithstanding both look pretty goodi author pictured news article Au gust 15 1937 after having initiated Junior Blrdmen organization spon sored San Antonio Light Hearst newspaper chain Two Outdoor two door competitive meets held year 72 Model Aviation copy original National Aeronautic Association charter NAA seal de signating San Antonio Society Model Engineers Gas Model Chapter NAA names SASME members listed document dated March 24 1938 1938 photo shows Bill Pfeil 36in-span Brat-powered modei weighed 166 oz Bill member 1938 Wakefield team competed France Herb Fisher 1938 Brown-powered Clipper first Clipper appear San Antonio Its floating flight charac teristics caused quite sensation 1938 Leonardos famed drawings flapped wing ornithopters executed around year 1500 show astonishing understand ing dynamics flight day Almost four centuries later models played key role development modern avi ation Samuel Pierpont Langley earliest pioneers build study mmThe second Clipper appear San Antonio Brown Jr-powered ship built Bob Rickard pictured model 1938 Bob race Herb have first Clipper field few days apart competition iature airplanes Langley scientist astronomer served third secre tary Smithsonian Institution built 40 rubber-powered models tween 1887 1895 called aero dromes Wilbur Orville Wright also built models discovering fascinations experimental value firsthand Like originators field Leonardo Langley Wright Brothers worked alone model aviation soli r 1938 winner seen owner Willie Ng appears Berkeley Courier Sportster lowered thrust line probably powered Willies favorite engine Brown Jr tary hobby country began change during late 1920s early 1930s Stirred glamour World War aviators movies such Wings Hells Angels exciting developments aviation re corded almost daily newspapers American public ready model avia tion Recognizing mood entrepreneurs formed small companies offering model building materials some crude kits gossamer-winged models Carl Goldberg boys Chicago turning outstanding flights Newspa pers department stores began organiz ing groups modelers such JordanMarsh Junior Aviator League Pulp magazines called because made newsprint came scene Though carried mainly fiction some pulps included three-view plans solid modelsnot WW contemporaneous aircraft also futuristic designs looked future inciden tally aerodynamicists period dis counted idea space flight certain i,, 4 November 1990 73 Another 1938 photo showing Oliver Pfeil Brown-powered original often flew Kelly Field brother Bill owned popular successful Model Airplane Shop San Antonios Broadway Herb ODell seen 1938 photo GHQ Sportster powered Mighty Midget m Ralph Pressler president SAGMAA 1938 putting cowl place beauti ful Rearwin Speedster may have powered Mighty Midget Ralph gracious ly supplied old club records news clippings used assemble story Left Orin Anderson 17 years old won Arizona State Gas Model Championship 1939 Phoenix Brown-powered Pacific Ace won him another Brown Jr Ohlsson 23 Right refreshment faciiity Keiiy Fieid contest photo probabiy taken 1940 shows ieft Ng Charies Adams Jack Harding Betty Fisher Carl Jonas iooks aii traded shoes Moore props surpass Though seemed no da Vincis day least ex perts resurrected 1898 declaration World Congress Scientists scientific advances late-19th-century group de cided made minor im provements discoveries possi ble newspaper sponsored two Outdoor two Indoor contests annually winners competing sponsors expense national Junior Birdmen Championship San Antonios Texas link Hearst chain San Antonio Light recall several top Birdmen Charlie Adams Fred Cordova Richard Sher man extremely competent events Charlie Fred best known outstanding throwing arms Hand-Launched Glider Dick ex celled Indoor Some years later Dick nar rowly missed making Wakefield team Unlike teenaged peers three young men always ready help out us novice builders just few years junior Go away kid bother sort thing gotten used hearing 15-year-old idols age 11 12 hurt Birdmen divided two class es Junior under 16 Senior under 21 Competition fierce particularly Sen ior contender didnt make town might visit relatives another try again winter small house trailer appeared vacant lot San Antonios south side San Antonio address modeler within eligible enter 1937 best recollection Indoor contest didnt 74 Model Aviation Singie-wheeled models very popuiar San Antonio 1939 Ralph Pressler left Herb Fisher right being assisted HL Shiiier center San Antonio Exchange Ciub getting modeis ready contest sponsored ciub rumor Mr Shiiier ieft set Wizard Oz assist contest compieteiy untrue rockets would never attain necessary ye- Founded famed Hearst Syndicate pub locity escape muzzle velocity lisher William Randolph Hearst Junior SAGMAA members ieft miles per second alsoBirdmen America became largest ofciub another Robert sevenA Sedgewick pictured cadet skeptical aircraft could ever match the groups promoting model aviation during 1939 iast heard speed soundand sure would never Golden Age Flight Hearst captain U S Army Air Corps 1942 summer 1940 search new competition inciuded Stunt event Ohisson 60-powered Cilpper right carried Atom-powered Ciipper Jr aloft both en gines running Ciipper Jr would reisased its pneumatic-controiied cradle go Its own way left Bud Frazier left Lee Sherman pose Ciipper combo Sherman owned Clipper Frazier Ciipper Jr Lee kiiied Burma 1943 win trip championships although believe did win hometown following year name Roy Mar quardt future founder Marquardt Aviation aerospace contrac tor thats still going strong today Theres example what promoting model avia tion can accomplish Gas model flying began come its own 1932 young man Philadel phia set world record gasoline-powered models two-minute 35-second flight prompted National Aeronautic As sociation sponsor meet sched uled following year 1933 contest same young man won Tex aco Trophy longest-flying Gas mod el Due way rules written also raked two trophies intended Rubber eventsthe now-fa mous Moffett Mulvihill trophies Need less say rules quickly revised 1940 contest New Braunfels TX tracted 25 entrants SAGMAA newer member Joe Borden pictured classy Comet Clipper came away victorious almost-forgotten long-ago event misunderstanding 1933 NAA meet proved divisive Model aviation began polarize two factionspro-Gas anti-Gas Several state legislatures made Gas model flying illegal suspect Hearsts influence largely responsible schism newspaper magnate took stand against Gas Paradoxically man done other promote model avia tion now doing best undermine important branch skillful writer can take facts about weight size airspeed skew lurid scenarios bear little resem blance reality Heating up contro versy stories appeared press telling fire-breathing engines tanks full ex plosive gasoline models tossed wan tonly sky cut loose pilots control could come crashing earth anywhere anytime 1 4-ft-span monster powered two Brown Juniors mounted above other built Bill Hewgley 1940 photo shows ship being launched Orin An derson left Willie Ng Willie also killed flying Hump Burma about 1943 Such stories must have conjured some alarming images typical suburbanite probably visualized himself sitting chair pretending read Popular Mechan ics children feet new rug reading Sunday funnies front ra dio Theyre listening Uncle Bob Just Uncle Bob reads horrible death sen tence Ming Magnificent laying Flash Gordon Professor Zharkov sneaking Dale Arden out Mings Harem happens abominable Gas models crashes through new picture win dow smacks children bursts flame terrible explosion Depression years remember fellow wouldnt have money re place window rug radio may never find out what hap pened Flash Dale professor children all miss course knows what outcome might have such alarmist views Gas model flying gone unchecked Fortunately National Aeronautic Association inter vened NAA organized Gas Model Di vision supported nationwide network Gas Model Chapters regional chap ters intended educate public about model aviation generally cham pion cause promoted contests shows other public displays communities November 1990 75 Toddle McQuatters 1940 beautifui Brown-powered Mk II Clipper Toddle also strong contender Rubber contests Louis Urfurth Mk II Clipper 1940 young son Billy rising star time rubber-powered craft HL Gliders 1941 photo shows 36-in-span Atom 09-powered Buzzard Bombshell being spected family cat model built Buddy Frazier Kits given away premiums subscribing Air Trails magazine subscription kit mere two dollars back Today just license cat would 25 dollars Left Ingenuity work Oliver Pfeii left brother Bill photographed sometime 1941 demonstrating camera placement novative Camera Clipper Right Orin Anderson young man photographed early 1942 displaying Brown Jr-powered Comet Clipper fact its largely due efforts NAA lobby championing model aviation Radio Control models legal today During Forties governments acute wartime need aviation expertise also boosted status model aviation Model ers specializing various branches hobby made themselves available mili tary aircraft production aero research San Antonio TX International Gas Model Airplane Association prompt align itself NAA effort San Antonio Evening News heralded devel opment January 1938 article T D Higgins Zooming Over Airdromes have just informed San An tonio members International Gas Model Airplane Association joining large-scale movement form Gas Model Division National Aeronautic Asso ciation Ralph Pressler president lo cal chapter IGMAA declared National Aeronautic Association seeking model airplane builders members chapter solidly behind move ment expects affiliated early March article went mention Press ler chosen represent San Anto nio Dallas following Saturday meeting called NAA plan two possibly three Gas model contests state during coming season Press ler quoted saying highly likely San Antonio would selected contest sites Gas Model Division write up continued will operated directly un der NAA supervision exercising full con trol over members NAA grants Gas model fliers licenses can revoke violation safety rules Higgins closed remarking permis sion Army Air Corps chapter flying Kelly Field Sunday morn ings test flights attract consid erable attention always well tended San Antonio Society Model Engi neers became Gas Model Chapter National Aeronautic Association March 24 1938 charter members Al fred Person Louis F Ridder Jr Gene Hart mangruber Ralph R Pressler RH Estes Jr Oliver Pfeil William Pfeil Jr PJ Cockrell JJ Cody Jr James E Kessler Jack Harding Carl Jonas Robert Sedgewick Anton Heisler Jr RT Rickard Jr served senior advisors Shortly after its inception club re named itself San Antonio Gas Model Airplane Association SAGMAA no evidence charter changed Well statement wrong its sure promptly corrected Anton Heisler created excellent club logo Which re produced pages about same time antiGas movement finally began weaken Junior Birdmen program shortly came end disbanding Jun ior Birdmen real pity Whether Hearst did out pique still de serves appreciation first promoters model airplane hobby organizer Junior Birdmen project SAGMAA meetings held Model Airplane Shop just few doors Houston Street Broadway shop owned Bill Ollie Pfeil Having begun shoestring two brothers moved location hardware store around block theyd single spartan showcase no engines Broadway location Pfeils created very nice store Later able expand leasing building next door knocking out wall Model Airplane Shop became best hobby shop San Antonio no wonder young Pfeil brothers pretty much lived hobby good businessmen well succeeding bet ter competitors ac complished think identifying customers giving sound advice sought brothers also pro moted contests offering excellent prizes sev eral times year shop became lunchtime visiting place everyone worked town anyone building space free use back room SAGMAA course held its meetings until out grew space moved either Dairyland Bordens Josephine Street became subject joke clouds recollection dairys name Bill Pfeil killed auto acci dent shortly after World War II began 01lie gave up shop full-scale aviation brothers also begun wholesalers hobby supplies number young people drawn model aviation because Bill Ollie Pfeil im possible estimate its surely high cherish own memories Incidentally another source model air craft San Antonio before war toy department Wolff & Marx store excellent collection Scale kits cluding some like Armstrong-Whitworth Quadraplane bought quite rare Ive never seen such kits else dont know Wolff & 76 Model Aviation first SAGMAA reunion took place May 1975 Standing left right Alfred Person Richard Sherman Tom Moore Claude Williams Jerry Schramm MR Hamilton Jerry Heller Ollie Pfeii Sitting left Buddy Frazier provided photo Kneeling mid dle row left right Ralph Pressier Clyde Stokes Jimmy Sommerselt front row left right Bill Hewgley Orin Anderson Percy Cockreii Jimmy Kessler recent SAGMAA reunion December 1965 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training military pilots Just few years later number San Antonio boys partic ipated promotion duplicate filmed action served Army Air Corps Later still some SAG MAA members served Army Air Force United States Air Force like Dutch Sluder strong beginning NAA-SAGMAA alliance Goals met surpassed organiza tional meeting held end 1938 ca pable set officers headed Pressler elected 12-point program adopted 1939 Pressler overloaded work requiring organizational talents both SAGMAA Southwest Gas Model Association SWGMA regional collective NAA Gas Model Division chapters 12-point program included complet ing schedule model development ex perimentation scheduling open-house meet ings educate public about model avia tion improving management flying activities several locations Yes very good year Southwest Gas Model Association met Dallas early 1939 plan years contest schedule first meet slated Abilene May 14 followed San Antonio May 28 Houston June 11 Fort Worth June 25 Mineral Wells July 16 Dallas July 30 Corpus Christi Au gust 13 Waco August 27 Wichita Falls September 3 Austin tentatively scheduled August 13 same day Corpus Christi contest Obviously NAA Gas Model Chapters increased number force Youll notice al case two weeks rest pro vided between contests repair per haps SWGMA 1939 contest season well publicized local merchants ganizations such Exchange Clubs generous prize money fact end 1941 much thousand dollars available prizes SAGMAA coming nearly popular San Anto nio Missions ball club Texas League San Antonio still counted Herb Fisher Bob Rickard Orin Anderson Willie Ng Anton Heisler Percy Cockrell Alfred Person among its prominent model builders 1939 Carl Jonas Jack Harding Bob Sedgewick becoming competi tive though continued sport fly reg ularly Kelly Among newer members Joe Borden JA Carney son Jim Bill Hewgley Clyde Stokes Younger SAGMAA members making Rubber model scene over Thomas Jef ferson High School drill field Jack Goebel WL Vavricka Buddy Frazier 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Christi meet first big meet Jerry ever entered fact hed building model aircraft less year time week before Corpus Christi meet entered won Novice contest Kelly Field truly rising star Thermal conditions during competi tion Corpus Christi unusual Jerrys airplane caught thermal almost immedi ately after launched went almost out sight wind shifted model returned again went almost out sight again came back time land ing far launch point Com et Zipper flown hour 10 minutes 552 seconds thought NAA record Senior class since Jerry hand launched model achievement couldnt officially acknowl edged An ROG rise-off-ground launch record requirements Needr Stock No _____ ______________ ______ I HANDLING CHARGE H k order act Card order cdo Order troot Aifrooo fh less say meet Jerrys Second place went Dewey Bonbrake Houston boy duration just over 50 minutes another hand-launched record time Open class Some contests included smallbore-engine event Corpus Christi meet Gene Hartmangruber came out top 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Those Days ed Lehmberg Wonder Change thought pioneer Power modelers easy back Thir ties saved early Gas movement being caught cross fire before off ground National Aeronau tic Association fliers own determination 4 mythical pair built wings selves might call first homebuilders certaialy couldnt called MANS FASCINATION flight age- modelers old Daedalus son Icarus the earliest self-taught aerodynam first try soaring through heavens icists perhaps first designer wings feathers wax model airplanes Leonardo da Vinci Left photo taken during th summer oi iu snows Buddy Frazier ieft Richard Sherman working Sherman-designed Rubber job buiit Frazier site lathe north side Jefferson High School driii field very popuiar site ali events except Gas Right photo taken winter 1973 deliberateiy out sequence show what becomes modelers after 35 years hobby Buddy Fra zier holding 1940-vintage Lanzo Stick Richard Sherman winds motor years notwithstanding both look pretty goodi author pictured news article Au gust 15 1937 after having initiated Junior Blrdmen organization spon sored San Antonio Light Hearst newspaper chain Two Outdoor two door competitive meets held year 72 Model Aviation copy original National Aeronautic Association charter NAA seal de signating San Antonio Society Model Engineers Gas Model Chapter NAA names SASME members listed document dated March 24 1938 1938 photo shows Bill Pfeil 36in-span Brat-powered modei weighed 166 oz Bill member 1938 Wakefield team competed France Herb Fisher 1938 Brown-powered Clipper first Clipper appear San Antonio Its floating flight charac teristics caused quite sensation 1938 Leonardos famed drawings flapped wing ornithopters executed around year 1500 show astonishing understand ing dynamics flight day Almost four centuries later models played key role development modern avi ation Samuel Pierpont Langley earliest pioneers build study mmThe second Clipper appear San Antonio Brown Jr-powered ship built Bob Rickard pictured model 1938 Bob race Herb have first Clipper field few days apart competition iature airplanes Langley scientist astronomer served third secre tary Smithsonian Institution built 40 rubber-powered models tween 1887 1895 called aero dromes Wilbur Orville Wright also built models discovering fascinations experimental value firsthand Like originators field Leonardo Langley Wright Brothers worked alone model aviation soli r 1938 winner seen owner Willie Ng appears Berkeley Courier Sportster lowered thrust line probably powered Willies favorite engine Brown Jr tary hobby country began change during late 1920s early 1930s Stirred glamour World War aviators movies such Wings Hells Angels exciting developments aviation re corded almost daily newspapers American public ready model avia tion Recognizing mood entrepreneurs formed small companies offering model building materials some crude kits gossamer-winged models Carl Goldberg boys Chicago turning outstanding flights Newspa pers department stores began organiz ing groups modelers such JordanMarsh Junior Aviator League Pulp magazines called because made newsprint came scene Though carried mainly fiction some pulps included three-view plans solid modelsnot WW contemporaneous aircraft also futuristic designs looked future inciden tally aerodynamicists period dis counted idea space flight certain i,, 4 November 1990 73 Another 1938 photo showing Oliver Pfeil Brown-powered original often flew Kelly Field brother Bill owned popular successful Model Airplane Shop San Antonios Broadway Herb ODell seen 1938 photo GHQ Sportster powered Mighty Midget m Ralph Pressler president SAGMAA 1938 putting cowl place beauti ful Rearwin Speedster may have powered Mighty Midget Ralph gracious ly supplied old club records news clippings used assemble story Left Orin Anderson 17 years old won Arizona State Gas Model Championship 1939 Phoenix Brown-powered Pacific Ace won him another Brown Jr Ohlsson 23 Right refreshment faciiity Keiiy Fieid contest photo probabiy taken 1940 shows ieft Ng Charies Adams Jack Harding Betty Fisher Carl Jonas iooks aii traded shoes Moore props surpass Though seemed no da Vincis day least ex perts resurrected 1898 declaration World Congress Scientists scientific advances late-19th-century group de cided made minor im provements discoveries possi ble newspaper sponsored two Outdoor two Indoor contests annually winners competing sponsors expense national Junior Birdmen Championship San Antonios Texas link Hearst chain San Antonio Light recall several top Birdmen Charlie Adams Fred Cordova Richard Sher man extremely competent events Charlie Fred best known outstanding throwing arms Hand-Launched Glider Dick ex celled Indoor Some years later Dick nar rowly missed making Wakefield team Unlike teenaged peers three young men always ready help out us novice builders just few years junior Go away kid bother sort thing gotten used hearing 15-year-old idols age 11 12 hurt Birdmen divided two class es Junior under 16 Senior under 21 Competition fierce particularly Sen ior contender didnt make town might visit relatives another try again winter small house trailer appeared vacant lot San Antonios south side San Antonio address modeler within eligible enter 1937 best recollection Indoor contest didnt 74 Model Aviation Singie-wheeled models very popuiar San Antonio 1939 Ralph Pressler left Herb Fisher right being assisted HL Shiiier center San Antonio Exchange Ciub getting modeis ready contest sponsored ciub rumor Mr Shiiier ieft set Wizard Oz assist contest compieteiy untrue rockets would never attain necessary ye- Founded famed Hearst Syndicate pub locity escape muzzle velocity lisher William Randolph Hearst Junior SAGMAA members ieft miles per second alsoBirdmen America became largest ofciub another Robert sevenA Sedgewick pictured cadet skeptical aircraft could ever match the groups promoting model aviation during 1939 iast heard speed soundand sure would never Golden Age Flight Hearst captain U S Army Air Corps 1942 summer 1940 search new competition inciuded Stunt event Ohisson 60-powered Cilpper right carried Atom-powered Ciipper Jr aloft both en gines running Ciipper Jr would reisased its pneumatic-controiied cradle go Its own way left Bud Frazier left Lee Sherman pose Ciipper combo Sherman owned Clipper Frazier Ciipper Jr Lee kiiied Burma 1943 win trip championships although believe did win hometown following year name Roy Mar quardt future founder Marquardt Aviation aerospace contrac tor thats still going strong today Theres example what promoting model avia tion can accomplish Gas model flying began come its own 1932 young man Philadel phia set world record gasoline-powered models two-minute 35-second flight prompted National Aeronautic As sociation sponsor meet sched uled following year 1933 contest same young man won Tex aco Trophy longest-flying Gas mod el Due way rules written also raked two trophies intended Rubber eventsthe now-fa mous Moffett Mulvihill trophies Need less say rules quickly revised 1940 contest New Braunfels TX tracted 25 entrants SAGMAA newer member Joe Borden pictured classy Comet Clipper came away victorious almost-forgotten long-ago event misunderstanding 1933 NAA meet proved divisive Model aviation began polarize two factionspro-Gas anti-Gas Several state legislatures made Gas model flying illegal suspect Hearsts influence largely responsible schism newspaper magnate took stand against Gas Paradoxically man done other promote model avia tion now doing best undermine important branch skillful writer can take facts about weight size airspeed skew lurid scenarios bear little resem blance reality Heating up contro versy stories appeared press telling fire-breathing engines tanks full ex plosive gasoline models tossed wan tonly sky cut loose pilots control could come crashing earth anywhere anytime 1 4-ft-span monster powered two Brown Juniors mounted above other built Bill Hewgley 1940 photo shows ship being launched Orin An derson left Willie Ng Willie also killed flying Hump Burma about 1943 Such stories must have conjured some alarming images typical suburbanite probably visualized himself sitting chair pretending read Popular Mechan ics children feet new rug reading Sunday funnies front ra dio Theyre listening Uncle Bob Just Uncle Bob reads horrible death sen tence Ming Magnificent laying Flash Gordon Professor Zharkov sneaking Dale Arden out Mings Harem happens abominable Gas models crashes through new picture win dow smacks children bursts flame terrible explosion Depression years remember fellow wouldnt have money re place window rug radio may never find out what hap pened Flash Dale professor children all miss course knows what outcome might have such alarmist views Gas model flying gone unchecked Fortunately National Aeronautic Association inter vened NAA organized Gas Model Di vision supported nationwide network Gas Model Chapters regional chap ters intended educate public about model aviation generally cham pion cause promoted contests shows other public displays communities November 1990 75 Toddle McQuatters 1940 beautifui Brown-powered Mk II Clipper Toddle also strong contender Rubber contests Louis Urfurth Mk II Clipper 1940 young son Billy rising star time rubber-powered craft HL Gliders 1941 photo shows 36-in-span Atom 09-powered Buzzard Bombshell being spected family cat model built Buddy Frazier Kits given away premiums subscribing Air Trails magazine subscription kit mere two dollars back Today just license cat would 25 dollars Left Ingenuity work Oliver Pfeii left brother Bill photographed sometime 1941 demonstrating camera placement novative Camera Clipper Right Orin Anderson young man photographed early 1942 displaying Brown Jr-powered Comet Clipper fact its largely due efforts NAA lobby championing model aviation Radio Control models legal today During Forties governments acute wartime need aviation expertise also boosted status model aviation Model ers specializing various branches hobby made themselves available mili tary aircraft production aero research San Antonio TX International Gas Model Airplane Association prompt align itself NAA effort San Antonio Evening News heralded devel opment January 1938 article T D Higgins Zooming Over Airdromes have just informed San An tonio members International Gas Model Airplane Association joining large-scale movement form Gas Model Division National Aeronautic Asso ciation Ralph Pressler president lo cal chapter IGMAA declared National Aeronautic Association seeking model airplane builders members chapter solidly behind move ment expects affiliated early March article went mention Press ler chosen represent San Anto nio Dallas following Saturday meeting called NAA plan two possibly three Gas model contests state during coming season Press ler quoted saying highly likely San Antonio would selected contest sites Gas Model Division write up continued will operated directly un der NAA supervision exercising full con trol over members NAA grants Gas model fliers licenses can revoke violation safety rules Higgins closed remarking permis sion Army Air Corps chapter flying Kelly Field Sunday morn ings test flights attract consid erable attention always well tended San Antonio Society Model Engi neers became Gas Model Chapter National Aeronautic Association March 24 1938 charter members Al fred Person Louis F Ridder Jr Gene Hart mangruber Ralph R Pressler RH Estes Jr Oliver Pfeil William Pfeil Jr PJ Cockrell JJ Cody Jr James E Kessler Jack Harding Carl Jonas Robert Sedgewick Anton Heisler Jr RT Rickard Jr served senior advisors Shortly after its inception club re named itself San Antonio Gas Model Airplane Association SAGMAA no evidence charter changed Well statement wrong its sure promptly corrected Anton Heisler created excellent club logo Which re produced pages about same time antiGas movement finally began weaken Junior Birdmen program shortly came end disbanding Jun ior Birdmen real pity Whether Hearst did out pique still de serves appreciation first promoters model airplane hobby organizer Junior Birdmen project SAGMAA meetings held Model Airplane Shop just few doors Houston Street Broadway shop owned Bill Ollie Pfeil Having begun shoestring two brothers moved location hardware store around block theyd single spartan showcase no engines Broadway location Pfeils created very nice store Later able expand leasing building next door knocking out wall Model Airplane Shop became best hobby shop San Antonio no wonder young Pfeil brothers pretty much lived hobby good businessmen well succeeding bet ter competitors ac complished think identifying customers giving sound advice sought brothers also pro moted contests offering excellent prizes sev eral times year shop became lunchtime visiting place everyone worked town anyone building space free use back room SAGMAA course held its meetings until out grew space moved either Dairyland Bordens Josephine Street became subject joke clouds recollection dairys name Bill Pfeil killed auto acci dent shortly after World War II began 01lie gave up shop full-scale aviation brothers also begun wholesalers hobby supplies number young people drawn model aviation because Bill Ollie Pfeil im possible estimate its surely high cherish own memories Incidentally another source model air craft San Antonio before war toy department Wolff & Marx store excellent collection Scale kits cluding some like Armstrong-Whitworth Quadraplane bought quite rare Ive never seen such kits else dont know Wolff & 76 Model Aviation first SAGMAA reunion took place May 1975 Standing left right Alfred Person Richard Sherman Tom Moore Claude Williams Jerry Schramm MR Hamilton Jerry Heller Ollie Pfeii Sitting left Buddy Frazier provided photo Kneeling mid dle row left right Ralph Pressier Clyde Stokes Jimmy Sommerselt front row left right Bill Hewgley Orin Anderson Percy Cockreii Jimmy Kessler recent SAGMAA reunion December 1965 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awarded 10th place First place went Herb Fisher fellow San Antonio residents Orin Ander son Bob Rickard taking sixth sev enth places respectively Herbs wife Betty Fisher won Womens Event Ever promoter Ralph Pressler came up some intriguing crowd pleasers well-attended contest PA nouncer almost entire day Pressler asked crowd applaud something unintentional happened field end day gave award con testant received loudest ap plause improvised award went John Udden Corpus Christi newspa per account didnt say what crowd applauded him Wrong Way Corrigan event other innovation Pressler took timely advantage popularity certain fuddled navigator named Corrigan gentleman believing himself flying over Kansas few other miscellaneous states union really crossed Atlantic Twenty-two contestants entered Wrong Way Corrigan placed models line facing wind withdrew another line 10 ft rear signal run machines later become Le Mans Start start en gines Thirty seconds later another sig nal fliers release models expected zoom up wind blown downwind first cross line 100 ft downwind win ner Needless say some colli sions takeoff As far crowd concerned case few Christians lions dust settled Bob Rickard San Antonio emerged fearless winner Bob also won first Austin Willie Ng did same Dallas Gene Hart mangruber came fourth Dallas meet 102 entrants estimated 10000 spectators San Antonio boys prowess wasnt limited fields Texas Bill Pfeil won place US Lord Wakefield team 1938 NAA Nationals fellow resi dent Richard Sherman came close Bill went France compete British trophy captured another US team member Jim Cahill Lafay Continued page 120 _______________________ U PIPER 50-75 R 74 IN WING FOAMAIRE 10 SPAN 30-33 LBSCCSPAN 6-7 LBS 45-60 POWER10 SPAN 19- L o-42 CC POWER 5-10 LB PAYLOAD OPTIONAL SPREADER4 CH PLY FOAM AND BALSA WOOD CHOOSE 3 OR 4 OH SLOW AND STABLE KIT $26995 SPDKIT$1995 T $69953 CH $14995 4 CH $16495 SEND $100 FOR CATALOGRT 1 NEODESHA KS 66757 OF SAC KITS AND ACC 325-2821 FREE 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tal avoid slippage displacement L With both long bolts secure drill out spar hole notch finish file Push short stub length spar material ensure against shifting long bolt ends can trimmed off flush nut convenience M Insert least spar stub se curity youre ready saw ribs rough contour Keep bit oversize never undersize N The rough-cut rib stack can now sanded final shape trick both saw ing sanding keep stack per fectly vertical canting Good light ing helps Listen carefully sound sander hitting metal have itdurable accurate metal templates will ensure perfect wing airfoil hand future repair reproduction SAGMAAILehmberg Continued page 78 ette IN contest received good cover age San Antonio Evening News Read ers paper learned team mem bers hosted King Leopold m Belgium attending another contest country SAGMAA also assisted promoting movie Men Wings included parade float static dynamic dem onstration Stinson Field San Antonio municipal airport As aviation movie buffs will recall Wings about training military pilots Just few years later number San Antonio boys partic ipated promotion duplicate filmed action served Army Air Corps Later still some SAG MAA members served Army Air Force United States Air Force like Dutch Sluder strong beginning NAA-SAGMAA alliance Goals met surpassed organiza tional meeting held end 1938 ca pable set officers headed Pressler elected 12-point program adopted 1939 Pressler overloaded work requiring organizational talents both SAGMAA Southwest Gas Model Association SWGMA regional collective NAA Gas Model Division chapters 12-point program included complet ing schedule model development ex perimentation scheduling open-house meet ings educate public about model avia tion improving management flying activities several locations Yes very good year Southwest Gas Model Association met Dallas early 1939 plan years contest schedule first meet slated Abilene May 14 followed San Antonio May 28 Houston June 11 Fort Worth June 25 Mineral Wells July 16 Dallas July 30 Corpus Christi Au gust 13 Waco August 27 Wichita Falls September 3 Austin tentatively scheduled August 13 same day Corpus Christi contest Obviously NAA Gas Model Chapters increased number force Youll notice al case two weeks rest pro vided between contests repair per haps SWGMA 1939 contest season well publicized local merchants ganizations such Exchange Clubs generous prize money fact end 1941 much thousand dollars available prizes SAGMAA coming nearly popular San Anto nio Missions ball club Texas League San Antonio still counted Herb Fisher Bob Rickard Orin Anderson Willie Ng Anton Heisler Percy Cockrell Alfred Person among its prominent model builders 1939 Carl Jonas Jack Harding Bob Sedgewick becoming competi tive though continued sport fly reg ularly Kelly Among newer members Joe Borden JA Carney son Jim Bill Hewgley Clyde Stokes Younger SAGMAA members making Rubber model scene over Thomas Jef ferson High School drill field Jack Goebel WL Vavricka Buddy Frazier Toddy McQuatters Hilton Mollenhauer Charles Barron Alfred Lehmberg large mowed field single small tree center excellent Rubber Free Flight tree course attracted models like magnet held con tests prevailing wind prevailed south un less found lift models generally stayed over field lift planes usu ally went quite high After passing over few nearby houses open coun try mesquite cactus diamondbacks seemed stretch way North Pole Before got know keeper castle lived campus fam ily ships landing roof Continued page 185 120 Model Aviation THE LEADER IN COMPETITION PROPELLERS 4 fI RC PYLON RACING SERIES 500 DIAPITCH PRICE 7SN 5N 8I67A7I8 SERIES 400C 86/,677/a7 977I7 W WIDE BLADE EW EXTRA WIDE N NARROW flap joiner center trailing edge Apply slow-curing epoxy cen ter wing slide way body Continually check alignment epoxy sets making certain wing 90 body viewed front above After wing has dried follow same steps stabilizer sure stab parallel wing equidis tant hinge line hinge line way across Install 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VOLTS AT UP TO 10 AMPS Tac auadad4 aC 44f&f CALL OR WRITE FOR MORE INFO JOMAR PRODUCTS513-474-0985ACTUAL 2028 Knightsbridge Dr Cinti OH 45244 SIZE roof would knock Cannonballs door hed take us roof model re trieval See what publicity public aware ness clout can model builder newspapers period no less hungry colorful incidents jazz up stories journalists today 1939 San Antonio meet won Sid Smart DallasSan Antonio couldnt win em J Carneys model sliced half propeller another As newspaper account related determined Mr Carney took ship home repaired returned finish remaining flights highly successful contest way 10000 spectators cheering over 100 contestants Ray Math ews also Dallas captured second place Doug Porter Corpus Christi came third San Antonios Alfred Person took fourth San Antonio boys scored two other tri umphs 1939 Orin Anderson won Ar izona State Championship Phoenix fly ing beautiful Pacific Ace powered Brown Junior Jerry Heller established almost world record 1939 Cor pus Christi meet first big meet Jerry ever entered fact hed building model aircraft less year time week before Corpus Christi meet entered won Novice contest Kelly Field truly rising star Thermal conditions during competi tion Corpus Christi unusual Jerrys airplane caught thermal almost immedi ately after launched went almost out sight wind shifted model returned again went almost out sight again came back time land ing far launch point Com et Zipper flown hour 10 minutes 552 seconds thought NAA record Senior class since Jerry hand launched model achievement couldnt officially acknowl edged An ROG rise-off-ground launch record requirements Needr Stock No _____ ______________ ______ I HANDLING CHARGE H k order act Card order cdo Order troot Aifrooo fh less say meet Jerrys Second place went Dewey Bonbrake Houston boy duration just over 50 minutes another hand-launched record time Open class Some contests included smallbore-engine event Corpus Christi meet Gene Hartmangruber came out top shuffle intended enter event model got snagged power line test flight early day didnt come down till award time breeze came up Toward end 1939 Hitler intensi fled war machine Europe model builders States having own microwar over what about Zipper blitz Carl Goldbergs celebrated model shaking up contest scene year proving absolutely unbeatable meet after meet could almost count Zip pers predict winnersexcept course flew out-of-sight lost Things certainly changed less three years Zipper blitz no however 1939 still good year 1940 rapid growth within NAAs Gas Model Division indicated need separate group control di rect operation model airplanes United States new organization formed beginning year af filiated both NAA Federa tion Aeronautique Internationale called Academy Model Aeronautics Model airplanes come age two-day static show auditorium Express Publishing Company kicked off publicity program May 1940 contest season Nearly 100 models various stages construction dis played Also open 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