Taft Taft Taft ick hearing about perhaps what some Free Flighters say Great Neck Long Island saying Yet stands few places country real Free Flight contestswith five-minute maxesare scheduled regu larly throughout year fewer sites remain Texaco old-timer events can held motors run five ten minutes timer gets chase car along modeler follow lumbering ten -footer JO IS miles Taft itself half rough-and-tough oil town calendars seem have stopped running early fifties half progressive friendly compact efficient town way up No need ponder photo shop go to buy six-pack Tri-Xftlmfor example town well stocked Taft has installed modern symbol metropolitan ism one-way street though God knows 1e5 e om Free Flight er big event year held Standard Oil property just out side town US Free Flight Championships ranks second largest regularly scheduled Free Flight competition universe second US Nats Now its fifth running meet takes place during three-day Memorial Day week end Twenty-eight events listed seven include separate trophies Juniors including modern old-timer indoor outdoor day night rubber motor gas engine glider classifications addition high-time sweepstakes team championships Complete coverage such meet would require time energy left after socializing little flying best can present afew vignettes sug gest come see yourself 1976 Temperatures reached 95 96 afternoon three days humidity unmeasurable Thats sneaky way saying forgot bring hygrometer strongest winds gusting tween 10 15 mph made keeping track smaller models five min utes extremely difficult dropped below outline surrounding moun tains Three contestants suffered serious effects heat taken hospital ambulance beckoned Bob Meuser radio first-aid station set up field City Taft surprising werent considering little attention people give guarding against sort thing Accommodations Taft usually booked solid time get all-to gether enquire about usually stay field sleep lightly rather face prospect being awakened yond repair 5 am banging door porta-john usually take off boonies plop bag side car year sacked beside babbling brook wasnt really what would call brookmore likely ef fluent some plant up-valley babbled pleasantly What little wildlife September 1975 3 Top Bill Moore shows off Hossi 60-powered 1141 sq Mother Ot rear recently ittea Pound pound Steve Wittman can chuck American Balsa Corp scaledup Mini MidiPearl borrows some features hand-launched glider higher anyone Above Phil McCarry winds Smoothie Hank Cole design published 1941 Air Trails around Won indoor holds high-ceiling best looking rubber-power models ever designed record Bill Warners DH-34 Outdoor Peanut Scale rubber-powered model received its weathered appear ance Bill hastened drying dope exhaust automobile largest Free Flight contest world excepting Nationals took place fabulous Taft flying site over three-day Memorial Day weekend can make such environmentthere might think takes sun down signal thing consists mainly making scary noises talked myself thinking ferocious fauna around rabbit sleep came easily Indoor Hand-Launch Glider flown under 24-ft-high girders saw same modelers four top positions last year Sr/Open division dif ferent order Lee Hines repeated last years win using Sweepette 16 fol lowed fraction second behind traditional adversary Ron Wittman fly ing Texette came Bob DeShields using ultra-light Supersweep 24 Bobs model seemed have lowest sinking speed bunch did appear launch well author followed much improved lightened version Supersweep 24 took second last year improvements perfor mance far worse Texettes flown Steve Wittman Dan Sbur took top two spots Junior division Bill Xenakis lost A/I Towline Glider dethermalizer timer mal functioned after third max good line went out sight means somewhere within strip perhaps few hundred yards width gosh knows miles long almost hopeless situation worth try After searching hour bent cycle off onto side road around turn model waiting patiently side road went win event Jr/Sr division rubber-power events old-timer Wakefield Coupe dHiver Unlimited Rubber Scaleresulted exceptionally large quantities broken motors scattered everywhere after meet perhaps testi mony quality rubber now getting coupled ru mors Filati division Pirelli might have terminated production stretchy stuff isnt exactly good omen Hal Cover author flew elec tric-power Free Flight models just kicks electric propulsion has much common rubber power much gas motor powerand might suitable alternative Although rubber power rather anachronism delightful lets hope rubber supply situation doesnt become catastrophic Lou Young gave demonstration what happens can pop explodes heat inside carryall instant uniform coating something approxi mating tackiness uncatalyzed epoxy cement starters three dust devils after warming up sidelines until just right moment paid him social call loading car tailgate out front door much how-de-doo continued page 74 4 Model Aviation Bob Ditmer fires up 02-powered scaled-down Playboy Oldtimer Right John James leading Class C-Gas 1 pm shot taken Fatal overrun fly-off left him second place ha won night flying event same British-influenced design US FF Championships continued page 4 year sees abatement some problems blooming crop new ones oiling ground parking camping area helped solve dust problem country-rock band didnt provide entertainment year its loss mourned few visitors found delightful place blap motorcycles around until 2 am fewer last year Separating coagulating activities helped lot Hand-launch gliders flown specific area towline gliders towliners three lines laid out ground well away gas-power area required towline cross lines tower towee waiting thermal result fewer tangled towlines fewer tangles between towlines motorcycles Crocket won Rocket put pocket Gee hope line doesnt give Danny Kay inferiority complex Jim chief honcho Jim Crocket Replicas used electric ignition system introduced Dave Larry Parsons last year Am Aircraft Modeler Jan 1975 page 79 Sunduster NFFS Model Year awardee AAM Jan 74 page 26 Jim Scarborough Contest Manager doesnt have make decisions about color schemes models colors high-visibility orange Ive re marked him past color clashed horribly car year showed up new car painted what elsehigh-visibility orange Free Flight models usually serve masters faithfully dozens hundreds flights before being lost crashing final unrepairable crash occurs what remains serious problem Free Flighters must face Some strip out useful hardware leave rest ground mummify sun Some stuffed 74 Model Aviation Hunters help Hulan Mathes prepares night-flying entree illumination pro vided Coleman lantern light Ed Carrol heaves up FAI power model flyoff flight won event third USFF Championships event Davie Bowser has building models two years already designing own models Old pros better take notice pair arrived carrying side-hack BMW will fit station wagons Taft hot offers wide-open spaces
Edition: Model Aviation - 1975/09
Page Numbers: 3, 4, 74
Taft Taft Taft ick hearing about perhaps what some Free Flighters say Great Neck Long Island saying Yet stands few places country real Free Flight contestswith five-minute maxesare scheduled regu larly throughout year fewer sites remain Texaco old-timer events can held motors run five ten minutes timer gets chase car along modeler follow lumbering ten -footer JO IS miles Taft itself half rough-and-tough oil town calendars seem have stopped running early fifties half progressive friendly compact efficient town way up No need ponder photo shop go to buy six-pack Tri-Xftlmfor example town well stocked Taft has installed modern symbol metropolitan ism one-way street though God knows 1e5 e om Free Flight er big event year held Standard Oil property just out side town US Free Flight Championships ranks second largest regularly scheduled Free Flight competition universe second US Nats Now its fifth running meet takes place during three-day Memorial Day week end Twenty-eight events listed seven include separate trophies Juniors including modern old-timer indoor outdoor day night rubber motor gas engine glider classifications addition high-time sweepstakes team championships Complete coverage such meet would require time energy left after socializing little flying best can present afew vignettes sug gest come see yourself 1976 Temperatures reached 95 96 afternoon three days humidity unmeasurable Thats sneaky way saying forgot bring hygrometer strongest winds gusting tween 10 15 mph made keeping track smaller models five min utes extremely difficult dropped below outline surrounding moun tains Three contestants suffered serious effects heat taken hospital ambulance beckoned Bob Meuser radio first-aid station set up field City Taft surprising werent considering little attention people give guarding against sort thing Accommodations Taft usually booked solid time get all-to gether enquire about usually stay field sleep lightly rather face prospect being awakened yond repair 5 am banging door porta-john usually take off boonies plop bag side car year sacked beside babbling brook wasnt really what would call brookmore likely ef fluent some plant up-valley babbled pleasantly What little wildlife September 1975 3 Top Bill Moore shows off Hossi 60-powered 1141 sq Mother Ot rear recently ittea Pound pound Steve Wittman can chuck American Balsa Corp scaledup Mini MidiPearl borrows some features hand-launched glider higher anyone Above Phil McCarry winds Smoothie Hank Cole design published 1941 Air Trails around Won indoor holds high-ceiling best looking rubber-power models ever designed record Bill Warners DH-34 Outdoor Peanut Scale rubber-powered model received its weathered appear ance Bill hastened drying dope exhaust automobile largest Free Flight contest world excepting Nationals took place fabulous Taft flying site over three-day Memorial Day weekend can make such environmentthere might think takes sun down signal thing consists mainly making scary noises talked myself thinking ferocious fauna around rabbit sleep came easily Indoor Hand-Launch Glider flown under 24-ft-high girders saw same modelers four top positions last year Sr/Open division dif ferent order Lee Hines repeated last years win using Sweepette 16 fol lowed fraction second behind traditional adversary Ron Wittman fly ing Texette came Bob DeShields using ultra-light Supersweep 24 Bobs model seemed have lowest sinking speed bunch did appear launch well author followed much improved lightened version Supersweep 24 took second last year improvements perfor mance far worse Texettes flown Steve Wittman Dan Sbur took top two spots Junior division Bill Xenakis lost A/I Towline Glider dethermalizer timer mal functioned after third max good line went out sight means somewhere within strip perhaps few hundred yards width gosh knows miles long almost hopeless situation worth try After searching hour bent cycle off onto side road around turn model waiting patiently side road went win event Jr/Sr division rubber-power events old-timer Wakefield Coupe dHiver Unlimited Rubber Scaleresulted exceptionally large quantities broken motors scattered everywhere after meet perhaps testi mony quality rubber now getting coupled ru mors Filati division Pirelli might have terminated production stretchy stuff isnt exactly good omen Hal Cover author flew elec tric-power Free Flight models just kicks electric propulsion has much common rubber power much gas motor powerand might suitable alternative Although rubber power rather anachronism delightful lets hope rubber supply situation doesnt become catastrophic Lou Young gave demonstration what happens can pop explodes heat inside carryall instant uniform coating something approxi mating tackiness uncatalyzed epoxy cement starters three dust devils after warming up sidelines until just right moment paid him social call loading car tailgate out front door much how-de-doo continued page 74 4 Model Aviation Bob Ditmer fires up 02-powered scaled-down Playboy Oldtimer Right John James leading Class C-Gas 1 pm shot taken Fatal overrun fly-off left him second place ha won night flying event same British-influenced design US FF Championships continued page 4 year sees abatement some problems blooming crop new ones oiling ground parking camping area helped solve dust problem country-rock band didnt provide entertainment year its loss mourned few visitors found delightful place blap motorcycles around until 2 am fewer last year Separating coagulating activities helped lot Hand-launch gliders flown specific area towline gliders towliners three lines laid out ground well away gas-power area required towline cross lines tower towee waiting thermal result fewer tangled towlines fewer tangles between towlines motorcycles Crocket won Rocket put pocket Gee hope line doesnt give Danny Kay inferiority complex Jim chief honcho Jim Crocket Replicas used electric ignition system introduced Dave Larry Parsons last year Am Aircraft Modeler Jan 1975 page 79 Sunduster NFFS Model Year awardee AAM Jan 74 page 26 Jim Scarborough Contest Manager doesnt have make decisions about color schemes models colors high-visibility orange Ive re marked him past color clashed horribly car year showed up new car painted what elsehigh-visibility orange Free Flight models usually serve masters faithfully dozens hundreds flights before being lost crashing final unrepairable crash occurs what remains serious problem Free Flighters must face Some strip out useful hardware leave rest ground mummify sun Some stuffed 74 Model Aviation Hunters help Hulan Mathes prepares night-flying entree illumination pro vided Coleman lantern light Ed Carrol heaves up FAI power model flyoff flight won event third USFF Championships event Davie Bowser has building models two years already designing own models Old pros better take notice pair arrived carrying side-hack BMW will fit station wagons Taft hot offers wide-open spaces
Edition: Model Aviation - 1975/09
Page Numbers: 3, 4, 74
Taft Taft Taft ick hearing about perhaps what some Free Flighters say Great Neck Long Island saying Yet stands few places country real Free Flight contestswith five-minute maxesare scheduled regu larly throughout year fewer sites remain Texaco old-timer events can held motors run five ten minutes timer gets chase car along modeler follow lumbering ten -footer JO IS miles Taft itself half rough-and-tough oil town calendars seem have stopped running early fifties half progressive friendly compact efficient town way up No need ponder photo shop go to buy six-pack Tri-Xftlmfor example town well stocked Taft has installed modern symbol metropolitan ism one-way street though God knows 1e5 e om Free Flight er big event year held Standard Oil property just out side town US Free Flight Championships ranks second largest regularly scheduled Free Flight competition universe second US Nats Now its fifth running meet takes place during three-day Memorial Day week end Twenty-eight events listed seven include separate trophies Juniors including modern old-timer indoor outdoor day night rubber motor gas engine glider classifications addition high-time sweepstakes team championships Complete coverage such meet would require time energy left after socializing little flying best can present afew vignettes sug gest come see yourself 1976 Temperatures reached 95 96 afternoon three days humidity unmeasurable Thats sneaky way saying forgot bring hygrometer strongest winds gusting tween 10 15 mph made keeping track smaller models five min utes extremely difficult dropped below outline surrounding moun tains Three contestants suffered serious effects heat taken hospital ambulance beckoned Bob Meuser radio first-aid station set up field City Taft surprising werent considering little attention people give guarding against sort thing Accommodations Taft usually booked solid time get all-to gether enquire about usually stay field sleep lightly rather face prospect being awakened yond repair 5 am banging door porta-john usually take off boonies plop bag side car year sacked beside babbling brook wasnt really what would call brookmore likely ef fluent some plant up-valley babbled pleasantly What little wildlife September 1975 3 Top Bill Moore shows off Hossi 60-powered 1141 sq Mother Ot rear recently ittea Pound pound Steve Wittman can chuck American Balsa Corp scaledup Mini MidiPearl borrows some features hand-launched glider higher anyone Above Phil McCarry winds Smoothie Hank Cole design published 1941 Air Trails around Won indoor holds high-ceiling best looking rubber-power models ever designed record Bill Warners DH-34 Outdoor Peanut Scale rubber-powered model received its weathered appear ance Bill hastened drying dope exhaust automobile largest Free Flight contest world excepting Nationals took place fabulous Taft flying site over three-day Memorial Day weekend can make such environmentthere might think takes sun down signal thing consists mainly making scary noises talked myself thinking ferocious fauna around rabbit sleep came easily Indoor Hand-Launch Glider flown under 24-ft-high girders saw same modelers four top positions last year Sr/Open division dif ferent order Lee Hines repeated last years win using Sweepette 16 fol lowed fraction second behind traditional adversary Ron Wittman fly ing Texette came Bob DeShields using ultra-light Supersweep 24 Bobs model seemed have lowest sinking speed bunch did appear launch well author followed much improved lightened version Supersweep 24 took second last year improvements perfor mance far worse Texettes flown Steve Wittman Dan Sbur took top two spots Junior division Bill Xenakis lost A/I Towline Glider dethermalizer timer mal functioned after third max good line went out sight means somewhere within strip perhaps few hundred yards width gosh knows miles long almost hopeless situation worth try After searching hour bent cycle off onto side road around turn model waiting patiently side road went win event Jr/Sr division rubber-power events old-timer Wakefield Coupe dHiver Unlimited Rubber Scaleresulted exceptionally large quantities broken motors scattered everywhere after meet perhaps testi mony quality rubber now getting coupled ru mors Filati division Pirelli might have terminated production stretchy stuff isnt exactly good omen Hal Cover author flew elec tric-power Free Flight models just kicks electric propulsion has much common rubber power much gas motor powerand might suitable alternative Although rubber power rather anachronism delightful lets hope rubber supply situation doesnt become catastrophic Lou Young gave demonstration what happens can pop explodes heat inside carryall instant uniform coating something approxi mating tackiness uncatalyzed epoxy cement starters three dust devils after warming up sidelines until just right moment paid him social call loading car tailgate out front door much how-de-doo continued page 74 4 Model Aviation Bob Ditmer fires up 02-powered scaled-down Playboy Oldtimer Right John James leading Class C-Gas 1 pm shot taken Fatal overrun fly-off left him second place ha won night flying event same British-influenced design US FF Championships continued page 4 year sees abatement some problems blooming crop new ones oiling ground parking camping area helped solve dust problem country-rock band didnt provide entertainment year its loss mourned few visitors found delightful place blap motorcycles around until 2 am fewer last year Separating coagulating activities helped lot Hand-launch gliders flown specific area towline gliders towliners three lines laid out ground well away gas-power area required towline cross lines tower towee waiting thermal result fewer tangled towlines fewer tangles between towlines motorcycles Crocket won Rocket put pocket Gee hope line doesnt give Danny Kay inferiority complex Jim chief honcho Jim Crocket Replicas used electric ignition system introduced Dave Larry Parsons last year Am Aircraft Modeler Jan 1975 page 79 Sunduster NFFS Model Year awardee AAM Jan 74 page 26 Jim Scarborough Contest Manager doesnt have make decisions about color schemes models colors high-visibility orange Ive re marked him past color clashed horribly car year showed up new car painted what elsehigh-visibility orange Free Flight models usually serve masters faithfully dozens hundreds flights before being lost crashing final unrepairable crash occurs what remains serious problem Free Flighters must face Some strip out useful hardware leave rest ground mummify sun Some stuffed 74 Model Aviation Hunters help Hulan Mathes prepares night-flying entree illumination pro vided Coleman lantern light Ed Carrol heaves up FAI power model flyoff flight won event third USFF Championships event Davie Bowser has building models two years already designing own models Old pros better take notice pair arrived carrying side-hack BMW will fit station wagons Taft hot offers wide-open spaces