lu-It WIINNINL IDIF l[IIiII ZILID lI1QIDIIDIIY refreshing account guarantees reading enjoyment modelers Its construction project plans will please red-blooded old-timer THE FIRST semi-serious go Wakefield Trophy 1931 Dayton OH Fourth National Contest Airplane Model League America June 29 30 1931 Flying done Wright Field events sponsored Materiel Division US Army Air Corps Joseph Ehrhardt St Louis de fended Wakefield won year before England won $25 troubles flight 2648 sec onds Lt Colonel HH HAP Arnold executive officer Materiel Division signed letter response thank note after contest first big contest did 95 seconds awarded Certificate Distinction ie Honorable Mention801 place think next year another whack Atlantic City Bamberger Aero Club Charles Grant editor MAN timer elimination flights together motorcycle sidecar watched crate go out over water lose altitude drift back over land back out etc etc went ten miles 25 minutes 53 seconds Got crate back great shape ready finalshaving survived eliminations Max Bassett also survived ready too finals crate disappeared after 7 minutes 57 secondsthe timers didnt chase after landed five miles AC Airportbut didnt know until Miss Loraine Reynolds found backyard Sunday morningshe fired letter read about contest Sunday paper Name address side fuselage course got crate backpretty much worse wear since trip Pleasantville NJ Lebanon PA wasnt bestpacking model airplanes different things Max us worried gas machinehe really cooking best unlimited gas supply 255 After much backing filling finally decided contest legal therefore results kaput Rea son English models crates too long having shipped over earlier date post poned until September 10 No trophy Have ever gotten nationwide publicity winnerLindy Lebanon thatand no trophy ex Gordon S Light plain hometown crowd No way Oh well back basement old sticks glue Us aeronauts dont have brains enuf take hint So 1933 mail deal sent crate over England JE Pelly-Fry flew breakhe much better coaxed 2 minutes 232 seconds out 1/10 sec ond behind second place third place medal very nice though JW Kenworthy won event 00S flight 521 Nor 1934 banner year Wakefield Grail campaign Again mail routine crashed entry made list contest results Something like 14 second flight 7 up 7 down Any thing less 20 recorded 1935 diversion Congrat ulations win complete mes sage cablegram received August 6 1935the contest previous day TH Ives proxy flier handled things nicely first flight 720 model out sight took off Faireys Aerodrome landed Hanworth Aerodrome after two-hour flight crate flown back Faireys Puss Moth great shape would have ready another flightbut wasnt necessary 2 minutes August 1976 51 Today ship end its designer equally good shapeso says model flyable hope Gordon wont too tempted model wes designed fit pecking box box dates 1934 New Zealand entry shipped Moffett model Charlie Grant US proxy flown WASS TUBNG BBASS TUBBG 1/16 ID\1WIRE \\wIRE ANd-CR ISCEDER 10 TL8ING PRcP 1/16 GA SJ-IAFTSLACOAERING FREE-WHEELERS PROREUER DETAIL CEMENT WASHER TO EACH SEE CF W1-IEEL 1—BALSANOSE\ SYM 1/16 SH RIBS \ 1/6r7/16 TE 1/BBS LE F /Bx1/4 56565 1/16 50 BAMBOO\ x 1.~~DEMESJ1/1rABLERLccEN&ST6B\ SCALEINCI-ES1/iBSO BAMBOO 3/32S0 LE zLi~ 4K K 1-BINDANDf SIRE 1/325H COSITRING LE PQbFI FO P arv TFMR ATE LOTHING SNAP 16I2 GA/32 INODEPEE K 24 p lExi B BAMBOO 1/16 GA WRE SI-IAPT 3-LAMNATONSi/iB NH CROW GRAINED IIU II _______ II WIRE WINO HOCES 325 3/32x5/1B --7 3 32x5111 _____________________________________________________TE WING DiI-eDRAL GAGWIRE RLEEER I-*504 WIRE RUBBER I-EOtG--11/lEElIA SPARS ________________________ BND & GLUE 1/16 NH STIPPENERS SPADED 2 ARSRT 1/16 NH RUEEER RIBS CLOTHING SNAP TO WIRE STAB RETAJNER BIND WITH THREAD AND GLUE1/16 SHIM1/16x1/4 MOTOR STICK RETAINER 02 NH NOSE3/32x116 BAMBOOWIRE B11C AND GLUEMOTOR STkCI GUIDE WIRE LANDING GEAR STRUT1/BBS STRUTS1/B SO LONBERON TOP & BOTlOM BIND WITH 50 TAIL POSTFORCE IN MED HARO BALSA1/B SO STRUTTHREAD ANDSHARPENED PECE CF BAMNOC LANONO GEAR1/16 50 BAMBOO TO MAKE -CLE FOR BAMBOC RSEOER SPAR WRAP WITH _________________________________________1/B SO LONGERCRTHREAD APE GLUE TO KEEP 14I\1FROM SPUTTING BALSA SANDED/6S0WIRE TAIL SKID ROUND FORCEI IN SHARPENED/1/B SO LONOEROR FOR STRUT BIND// 5/16x17/BDIA116 NOEROR PROP dCK 4S41/B41/B4t 1935 PION DesIBUed GORDON S LIGHT Proxy Ilown Ny T H IVES Ao5xsS 5 1635 FarreyS Aerodome England SPECIFICATEAS WING AREA16716 IC STAB AREA 6416 0 RLEIEER AREA WECHTS WING7lOoz STABNHDoz RLIXIERl400z PROPELLER 3oz RUBBER1 232oz MOTOR SThCK 4750 WHEELS 32r5oz FUSELASE TOTAL FLYING WEK3HT40750 1935 Wakefield Trophy 266 seconds average enough time did get trophy flash around also pay insurance plus shipping charges Joe E warned expensive getting married have custody mug Someone knows dropped thing world little flat vicinity Alaska Might still far know personally think Joe dropped Obviously proxy model important thing other good proxy flier good packing crate First must pass parcel post regulations length girth etc otherwise Post Office wont take means shipping express during depression no could afford So obviously have good box well advised build model fitso much easier sound tech nically other way around turns out Moffett Trophy con test Remember Charles Grant proxy flier New Zealand entry flown out sight took empty box camp Peru VT summer 1934 used box ship some models home Ob viously 1935 very much mind could struggle through model building part job shipping crate took talent way beyond model very much alive well after 41 years obviously better shape am Original covering though flew 1936 Detroit no great amount success phasing out being phased out engineering school model airplane article writing getting better Structural members minimumnot dihedral braces vertical fin duplicate half stabilizer time least fun handing trophy over AA Judge English team took back home think third two English lads ahead Incidentally shipping crate great shape too 1935 model gooder word go flew first time outa real shock since wasnt used good flight long struggle model design followed same basic design approach plagued since about 1930 cabin type fuselagemotorstick could crank turns cleaning away side fuselage things went bad lifting stab enormous finobviously half stab area same outline cabin window crud wasnt fancy since enabled look-see fastening motorstick clip Free-wheeler course Dihedral yes fixed shape boxno problem Interestingly enough flew model like crazy before shipping Something didnt 1934 Night/evening flights primarily Couldnt risk fly-away time too tight Al forgotearly morning dew flights too During evening flights thing dropped among herd cows caught up perched ground cows licking American Flag decal enormous attractive fin Probably though alfalfa blossom Well cows have feelings too saw took off jumped over model help moral story shouldnt have continued page 90 August 1976 53 Left Well things have kinda changed would say Spindly bamboo landing gear legs give clearance 24-in prop Below Because folder yet vented rubber-jobs used free-wheeling prop nose block motorstick integral unit case Legs removable 1935 Wakefield/Light continued page 53 flown its shipping container no other events during test flyingnothing dramatic profound No repairs really before incarceration turning over PO Department course about zillion small patches bottom fuselage landings cut stubbly grass etc Im tempted try fly crate again some time would foolish wouldnt mind having Ives could cope Lots Wakefield contests have held since 1935 performance course unbelievable dont know proxy flying done poor sub stitute real thing things during depression Old-timers will recall 1927 following years before depression significant prizes model contests Joe E won trophy England sponsored AMLA American Boy magazine arrived too late that1931 last cash prize year never returned during tour duty However assume required old-timer mumble better way wouldnt trade anything mumbled keeping chasing distance short handicap ped himself limiting motor run 20 seconds several flights over five minutes event strangely enough dont think anyone lost model event won Gene Wallock Astro 02-powered Ranger built Micro Models kit Bob Boucher showed em RC consecutively rolling Electra Twin model built around ASW 17 glider fuselage produced Boucher brothers Tony Addie Nacarato mother son team let big Aeronca C-3 go have radio malfunction ended up light damage wing Bill Daudson flew very pretty equally interesting Olympic Two con verted house Graupner electric motor folding prop assembly winners simple ex-static receive lightning-bolt trophies cast mounted man metal Bill Stroman sure got charge out watching meet would certainly like see growing interest electric powered models couple plugs help get started electric Write VL Pro ducts 7023-D Canoga Ave Canoga Park CA 91303 Astro Flight Inc 13377 Beach Ave Venice CA 90291 90 Model Aviation r CONGRATULATIONS Bill Stroman Astro 020 powered Gotha Taube shown 1st Free Flight Scale tmflrt Ann,*I Electric Meet continued Bill Stramans other entry twin-engined de Havilland biDlane flew very realistically Top Flite Ripped off night April 21 Top Flites plant broken valuable items destroyed stolen Since thieves limited themselves research de velopment area building took items interest model ers culprits known modelers prototype P-47D containing Kraf 1 61 taken silver Monokoted Head master show model containing PCS radio OS 19 stolen covered red white Monokote P-51 Mustangdis played WRAMS 1975was smashed obtain engine also P-51 CL P-39 show model same purpose Kraft KP5C system serial 17961 stolen also Kraft KP7C series 75 Serial No 34008 large amount special items also taken including about 50 different type enginesone Drone Diesel another K&B Torpedo Serial No G-1253 Anyone obtaining knowl edge of missing items urged contact Top Flite Models Inc 2635 5 Wabash Ave Chicago Ill
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/08
Page Numbers: 51, 52, 53, 90
lu-It WIINNINL IDIF l[IIiII ZILID lI1QIDIIDIIY refreshing account guarantees reading enjoyment modelers Its construction project plans will please red-blooded old-timer THE FIRST semi-serious go Wakefield Trophy 1931 Dayton OH Fourth National Contest Airplane Model League America June 29 30 1931 Flying done Wright Field events sponsored Materiel Division US Army Air Corps Joseph Ehrhardt St Louis de fended Wakefield won year before England won $25 troubles flight 2648 sec onds Lt Colonel HH HAP Arnold executive officer Materiel Division signed letter response thank note after contest first big contest did 95 seconds awarded Certificate Distinction ie Honorable Mention801 place think next year another whack Atlantic City Bamberger Aero Club Charles Grant editor MAN timer elimination flights together motorcycle sidecar watched crate go out over water lose altitude drift back over land back out etc etc went ten miles 25 minutes 53 seconds Got crate back great shape ready finalshaving survived eliminations Max Bassett also survived ready too finals crate disappeared after 7 minutes 57 secondsthe timers didnt chase after landed five miles AC Airportbut didnt know until Miss Loraine Reynolds found backyard Sunday morningshe fired letter read about contest Sunday paper Name address side fuselage course got crate backpretty much worse wear since trip Pleasantville NJ Lebanon PA wasnt bestpacking model airplanes different things Max us worried gas machinehe really cooking best unlimited gas supply 255 After much backing filling finally decided contest legal therefore results kaput Rea son English models crates too long having shipped over earlier date post poned until September 10 No trophy Have ever gotten nationwide publicity winnerLindy Lebanon thatand no trophy ex Gordon S Light plain hometown crowd No way Oh well back basement old sticks glue Us aeronauts dont have brains enuf take hint So 1933 mail deal sent crate over England JE Pelly-Fry flew breakhe much better coaxed 2 minutes 232 seconds out 1/10 sec ond behind second place third place medal very nice though JW Kenworthy won event 00S flight 521 Nor 1934 banner year Wakefield Grail campaign Again mail routine crashed entry made list contest results Something like 14 second flight 7 up 7 down Any thing less 20 recorded 1935 diversion Congrat ulations win complete mes sage cablegram received August 6 1935the contest previous day TH Ives proxy flier handled things nicely first flight 720 model out sight took off Faireys Aerodrome landed Hanworth Aerodrome after two-hour flight crate flown back Faireys Puss Moth great shape would have ready another flightbut wasnt necessary 2 minutes August 1976 51 Today ship end its designer equally good shapeso says model flyable hope Gordon wont too tempted model wes designed fit pecking box box dates 1934 New Zealand entry shipped Moffett model Charlie Grant US proxy flown WASS TUBNG BBASS TUBBG 1/16 ID\1WIRE \\wIRE ANd-CR ISCEDER 10 TL8ING PRcP 1/16 GA SJ-IAFTSLACOAERING FREE-WHEELERS PROREUER DETAIL CEMENT WASHER TO EACH SEE CF W1-IEEL 1—BALSANOSE\ SYM 1/16 SH RIBS \ 1/6r7/16 TE 1/BBS LE F /Bx1/4 56565 1/16 50 BAMBOO\ x 1.~~DEMESJ1/1rABLERLccEN&ST6B\ SCALEINCI-ES1/iBSO BAMBOO 3/32S0 LE zLi~ 4K K 1-BINDANDf SIRE 1/325H COSITRING LE PQbFI FO P arv TFMR ATE LOTHING SNAP 16I2 GA/32 INODEPEE K 24 p lExi B BAMBOO 1/16 GA WRE SI-IAPT 3-LAMNATONSi/iB NH CROW GRAINED IIU II _______ II WIRE WINO HOCES 325 3/32x5/1B --7 3 32x5111 _____________________________________________________TE WING DiI-eDRAL GAGWIRE RLEEER I-*504 WIRE RUBBER I-EOtG--11/lEElIA SPARS ________________________ BND & GLUE 1/16 NH STIPPENERS SPADED 2 ARSRT 1/16 NH RUEEER RIBS CLOTHING SNAP TO WIRE STAB RETAJNER BIND WITH THREAD AND GLUE1/16 SHIM1/16x1/4 MOTOR STICK RETAINER 02 NH NOSE3/32x116 BAMBOOWIRE B11C AND GLUEMOTOR STkCI GUIDE WIRE LANDING GEAR STRUT1/BBS STRUTS1/B SO LONBERON TOP & BOTlOM BIND WITH 50 TAIL POSTFORCE IN MED HARO BALSA1/B SO STRUTTHREAD ANDSHARPENED PECE CF BAMNOC LANONO GEAR1/16 50 BAMBOO TO MAKE -CLE FOR BAMBOC RSEOER SPAR WRAP WITH _________________________________________1/B SO LONGERCRTHREAD APE GLUE TO KEEP 14I\1FROM SPUTTING BALSA SANDED/6S0WIRE TAIL SKID ROUND FORCEI IN SHARPENED/1/B SO LONOEROR FOR STRUT BIND// 5/16x17/BDIA116 NOEROR PROP dCK 4S41/B41/B4t 1935 PION DesIBUed GORDON S LIGHT Proxy Ilown Ny T H IVES Ao5xsS 5 1635 FarreyS Aerodome England SPECIFICATEAS WING AREA16716 IC STAB AREA 6416 0 RLEIEER AREA WECHTS WING7lOoz STABNHDoz RLIXIERl400z PROPELLER 3oz RUBBER1 232oz MOTOR SThCK 4750 WHEELS 32r5oz FUSELASE TOTAL FLYING WEK3HT40750 1935 Wakefield Trophy 266 seconds average enough time did get trophy flash around also pay insurance plus shipping charges Joe E warned expensive getting married have custody mug Someone knows dropped thing world little flat vicinity Alaska Might still far know personally think Joe dropped Obviously proxy model important thing other good proxy flier good packing crate First must pass parcel post regulations length girth etc otherwise Post Office wont take means shipping express during depression no could afford So obviously have good box well advised build model fitso much easier sound tech nically other way around turns out Moffett Trophy con test Remember Charles Grant proxy flier New Zealand entry flown out sight took empty box camp Peru VT summer 1934 used box ship some models home Ob viously 1935 very much mind could struggle through model building part job shipping crate took talent way beyond model very much alive well after 41 years obviously better shape am Original covering though flew 1936 Detroit no great amount success phasing out being phased out engineering school model airplane article writing getting better Structural members minimumnot dihedral braces vertical fin duplicate half stabilizer time least fun handing trophy over AA Judge English team took back home think third two English lads ahead Incidentally shipping crate great shape too 1935 model gooder word go flew first time outa real shock since wasnt used good flight long struggle model design followed same basic design approach plagued since about 1930 cabin type fuselagemotorstick could crank turns cleaning away side fuselage things went bad lifting stab enormous finobviously half stab area same outline cabin window crud wasnt fancy since enabled look-see fastening motorstick clip Free-wheeler course Dihedral yes fixed shape boxno problem Interestingly enough flew model like crazy before shipping Something didnt 1934 Night/evening flights primarily Couldnt risk fly-away time too tight Al forgotearly morning dew flights too During evening flights thing dropped among herd cows caught up perched ground cows licking American Flag decal enormous attractive fin Probably though alfalfa blossom Well cows have feelings too saw took off jumped over model help moral story shouldnt have continued page 90 August 1976 53 Left Well things have kinda changed would say Spindly bamboo landing gear legs give clearance 24-in prop Below Because folder yet vented rubber-jobs used free-wheeling prop nose block motorstick integral unit case Legs removable 1935 Wakefield/Light continued page 53 flown its shipping container no other events during test flyingnothing dramatic profound No repairs really before incarceration turning over PO Department course about zillion small patches bottom fuselage landings cut stubbly grass etc Im tempted try fly crate again some time would foolish wouldnt mind having Ives could cope Lots Wakefield contests have held since 1935 performance course unbelievable dont know proxy flying done poor sub stitute real thing things during depression Old-timers will recall 1927 following years before depression significant prizes model contests Joe E won trophy England sponsored AMLA American Boy magazine arrived too late that1931 last cash prize year never returned during tour duty However assume required old-timer mumble better way wouldnt trade anything mumbled keeping chasing distance short handicap ped himself limiting motor run 20 seconds several flights over five minutes event strangely enough dont think anyone lost model event won Gene Wallock Astro 02-powered Ranger built Micro Models kit Bob Boucher showed em RC consecutively rolling Electra Twin model built around ASW 17 glider fuselage produced Boucher brothers Tony Addie Nacarato mother son team let big Aeronca C-3 go have radio malfunction ended up light damage wing Bill Daudson flew very pretty equally interesting Olympic Two con verted house Graupner electric motor folding prop assembly winners simple ex-static receive lightning-bolt trophies cast mounted man metal Bill Stroman sure got charge out watching meet would certainly like see growing interest electric powered models couple plugs help get started electric Write VL Pro ducts 7023-D Canoga Ave Canoga Park CA 91303 Astro Flight Inc 13377 Beach Ave Venice CA 90291 90 Model Aviation r CONGRATULATIONS Bill Stroman Astro 020 powered Gotha Taube shown 1st Free Flight Scale tmflrt Ann,*I Electric Meet continued Bill Stramans other entry twin-engined de Havilland biDlane flew very realistically Top Flite Ripped off night April 21 Top Flites plant broken valuable items destroyed stolen Since thieves limited themselves research de velopment area building took items interest model ers culprits known modelers prototype P-47D containing Kraf 1 61 taken silver Monokoted Head master show model containing PCS radio OS 19 stolen covered red white Monokote P-51 Mustangdis played WRAMS 1975was smashed obtain engine also P-51 CL P-39 show model same purpose Kraft KP5C system serial 17961 stolen also Kraft KP7C series 75 Serial No 34008 large amount special items also taken including about 50 different type enginesone Drone Diesel another K&B Torpedo Serial No G-1253 Anyone obtaining knowl edge of missing items urged contact Top Flite Models Inc 2635 5 Wabash Ave Chicago Ill
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/08
Page Numbers: 51, 52, 53, 90
lu-It WIINNINL IDIF l[IIiII ZILID lI1QIDIIDIIY refreshing account guarantees reading enjoyment modelers Its construction project plans will please red-blooded old-timer THE FIRST semi-serious go Wakefield Trophy 1931 Dayton OH Fourth National Contest Airplane Model League America June 29 30 1931 Flying done Wright Field events sponsored Materiel Division US Army Air Corps Joseph Ehrhardt St Louis de fended Wakefield won year before England won $25 troubles flight 2648 sec onds Lt Colonel HH HAP Arnold executive officer Materiel Division signed letter response thank note after contest first big contest did 95 seconds awarded Certificate Distinction ie Honorable Mention801 place think next year another whack Atlantic City Bamberger Aero Club Charles Grant editor MAN timer elimination flights together motorcycle sidecar watched crate go out over water lose altitude drift back over land back out etc etc went ten miles 25 minutes 53 seconds Got crate back great shape ready finalshaving survived eliminations Max Bassett also survived ready too finals crate disappeared after 7 minutes 57 secondsthe timers didnt chase after landed five miles AC Airportbut didnt know until Miss Loraine Reynolds found backyard Sunday morningshe fired letter read about contest Sunday paper Name address side fuselage course got crate backpretty much worse wear since trip Pleasantville NJ Lebanon PA wasnt bestpacking model airplanes different things Max us worried gas machinehe really cooking best unlimited gas supply 255 After much backing filling finally decided contest legal therefore results kaput Rea son English models crates too long having shipped over earlier date post poned until September 10 No trophy Have ever gotten nationwide publicity winnerLindy Lebanon thatand no trophy ex Gordon S Light plain hometown crowd No way Oh well back basement old sticks glue Us aeronauts dont have brains enuf take hint So 1933 mail deal sent crate over England JE Pelly-Fry flew breakhe much better coaxed 2 minutes 232 seconds out 1/10 sec ond behind second place third place medal very nice though JW Kenworthy won event 00S flight 521 Nor 1934 banner year Wakefield Grail campaign Again mail routine crashed entry made list contest results Something like 14 second flight 7 up 7 down Any thing less 20 recorded 1935 diversion Congrat ulations win complete mes sage cablegram received August 6 1935the contest previous day TH Ives proxy flier handled things nicely first flight 720 model out sight took off Faireys Aerodrome landed Hanworth Aerodrome after two-hour flight crate flown back Faireys Puss Moth great shape would have ready another flightbut wasnt necessary 2 minutes August 1976 51 Today ship end its designer equally good shapeso says model flyable hope Gordon wont too tempted model wes designed fit pecking box box dates 1934 New Zealand entry shipped Moffett model Charlie Grant US proxy flown WASS TUBNG BBASS TUBBG 1/16 ID\1WIRE \\wIRE ANd-CR ISCEDER 10 TL8ING PRcP 1/16 GA SJ-IAFTSLACOAERING FREE-WHEELERS PROREUER DETAIL CEMENT WASHER TO EACH SEE CF W1-IEEL 1—BALSANOSE\ SYM 1/16 SH RIBS \ 1/6r7/16 TE 1/BBS LE F /Bx1/4 56565 1/16 50 BAMBOO\ x 1.~~DEMESJ1/1rABLERLccEN&ST6B\ SCALEINCI-ES1/iBSO BAMBOO 3/32S0 LE zLi~ 4K K 1-BINDANDf SIRE 1/325H COSITRING LE PQbFI FO P arv TFMR ATE LOTHING SNAP 16I2 GA/32 INODEPEE K 24 p lExi B BAMBOO 1/16 GA WRE SI-IAPT 3-LAMNATONSi/iB NH CROW GRAINED IIU II _______ II WIRE WINO HOCES 325 3/32x5/1B --7 3 32x5111 _____________________________________________________TE WING DiI-eDRAL GAGWIRE RLEEER I-*504 WIRE RUBBER I-EOtG--11/lEElIA SPARS ________________________ BND & GLUE 1/16 NH STIPPENERS SPADED 2 ARSRT 1/16 NH RUEEER RIBS CLOTHING SNAP TO WIRE STAB RETAJNER BIND WITH THREAD AND GLUE1/16 SHIM1/16x1/4 MOTOR STICK RETAINER 02 NH NOSE3/32x116 BAMBOOWIRE B11C AND GLUEMOTOR STkCI GUIDE WIRE LANDING GEAR STRUT1/BBS STRUTS1/B SO LONBERON TOP & BOTlOM BIND WITH 50 TAIL POSTFORCE IN MED HARO BALSA1/B SO STRUTTHREAD ANDSHARPENED PECE CF BAMNOC LANONO GEAR1/16 50 BAMBOO TO MAKE -CLE FOR BAMBOC RSEOER SPAR WRAP WITH _________________________________________1/B SO LONGERCRTHREAD APE GLUE TO KEEP 14I\1FROM SPUTTING BALSA SANDED/6S0WIRE TAIL SKID ROUND FORCEI IN SHARPENED/1/B SO LONOEROR FOR STRUT BIND// 5/16x17/BDIA116 NOEROR PROP dCK 4S41/B41/B4t 1935 PION DesIBUed GORDON S LIGHT Proxy Ilown Ny T H IVES Ao5xsS 5 1635 FarreyS Aerodome England SPECIFICATEAS WING AREA16716 IC STAB AREA 6416 0 RLEIEER AREA WECHTS WING7lOoz STABNHDoz RLIXIERl400z PROPELLER 3oz RUBBER1 232oz MOTOR SThCK 4750 WHEELS 32r5oz FUSELASE TOTAL FLYING WEK3HT40750 1935 Wakefield Trophy 266 seconds average enough time did get trophy flash around also pay insurance plus shipping charges Joe E warned expensive getting married have custody mug Someone knows dropped thing world little flat vicinity Alaska Might still far know personally think Joe dropped Obviously proxy model important thing other good proxy flier good packing crate First must pass parcel post regulations length girth etc otherwise Post Office wont take means shipping express during depression no could afford So obviously have good box well advised build model fitso much easier sound tech nically other way around turns out Moffett Trophy con test Remember Charles Grant proxy flier New Zealand entry flown out sight took empty box camp Peru VT summer 1934 used box ship some models home Ob viously 1935 very much mind could struggle through model building part job shipping crate took talent way beyond model very much alive well after 41 years obviously better shape am Original covering though flew 1936 Detroit no great amount success phasing out being phased out engineering school model airplane article writing getting better Structural members minimumnot dihedral braces vertical fin duplicate half stabilizer time least fun handing trophy over AA Judge English team took back home think third two English lads ahead Incidentally shipping crate great shape too 1935 model gooder word go flew first time outa real shock since wasnt used good flight long struggle model design followed same basic design approach plagued since about 1930 cabin type fuselagemotorstick could crank turns cleaning away side fuselage things went bad lifting stab enormous finobviously half stab area same outline cabin window crud wasnt fancy since enabled look-see fastening motorstick clip Free-wheeler course Dihedral yes fixed shape boxno problem Interestingly enough flew model like crazy before shipping Something didnt 1934 Night/evening flights primarily Couldnt risk fly-away time too tight Al forgotearly morning dew flights too During evening flights thing dropped among herd cows caught up perched ground cows licking American Flag decal enormous attractive fin Probably though alfalfa blossom Well cows have feelings too saw took off jumped over model help moral story shouldnt have continued page 90 August 1976 53 Left Well things have kinda changed would say Spindly bamboo landing gear legs give clearance 24-in prop Below Because folder yet vented rubber-jobs used free-wheeling prop nose block motorstick integral unit case Legs removable 1935 Wakefield/Light continued page 53 flown its shipping container no other events during test flyingnothing dramatic profound No repairs really before incarceration turning over PO Department course about zillion small patches bottom fuselage landings cut stubbly grass etc Im tempted try fly crate again some time would foolish wouldnt mind having Ives could cope Lots Wakefield contests have held since 1935 performance course unbelievable dont know proxy flying done poor sub stitute real thing things during depression Old-timers will recall 1927 following years before depression significant prizes model contests Joe E won trophy England sponsored AMLA American Boy magazine arrived too late that1931 last cash prize year never returned during tour duty However assume required old-timer mumble better way wouldnt trade anything mumbled keeping chasing distance short handicap ped himself limiting motor run 20 seconds several flights over five minutes event strangely enough dont think anyone lost model event won Gene Wallock Astro 02-powered Ranger built Micro Models kit Bob Boucher showed em RC consecutively rolling Electra Twin model built around ASW 17 glider fuselage produced Boucher brothers Tony Addie Nacarato mother son team let big Aeronca C-3 go have radio malfunction ended up light damage wing Bill Daudson flew very pretty equally interesting Olympic Two con verted house Graupner electric motor folding prop assembly winners simple ex-static receive lightning-bolt trophies cast mounted man metal Bill Stroman sure got charge out watching meet would certainly like see growing interest electric powered models couple plugs help get started electric Write VL Pro ducts 7023-D Canoga Ave Canoga Park CA 91303 Astro Flight Inc 13377 Beach Ave Venice CA 90291 90 Model Aviation r CONGRATULATIONS Bill Stroman Astro 020 powered Gotha Taube shown 1st Free Flight Scale tmflrt Ann,*I Electric Meet continued Bill Stramans other entry twin-engined de Havilland biDlane flew very realistically Top Flite Ripped off night April 21 Top Flites plant broken valuable items destroyed stolen Since thieves limited themselves research de velopment area building took items interest model ers culprits known modelers prototype P-47D containing Kraf 1 61 taken silver Monokoted Head master show model containing PCS radio OS 19 stolen covered red white Monokote P-51 Mustangdis played WRAMS 1975was smashed obtain engine also P-51 CL P-39 show model same purpose Kraft KP5C system serial 17961 stolen also Kraft KP7C series 75 Serial No 34008 large amount special items also taken including about 50 different type enginesone Drone Diesel another K&B Torpedo Serial No G-1253 Anyone obtaining knowl edge of missing items urged contact Top Flite Models Inc 2635 5 Wabash Ave Chicago Ill
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/08
Page Numbers: 51, 52, 53, 90
lu-It WIINNINL IDIF l[IIiII ZILID lI1QIDIIDIIY refreshing account guarantees reading enjoyment modelers Its construction project plans will please red-blooded old-timer THE FIRST semi-serious go Wakefield Trophy 1931 Dayton OH Fourth National Contest Airplane Model League America June 29 30 1931 Flying done Wright Field events sponsored Materiel Division US Army Air Corps Joseph Ehrhardt St Louis de fended Wakefield won year before England won $25 troubles flight 2648 sec onds Lt Colonel HH HAP Arnold executive officer Materiel Division signed letter response thank note after contest first big contest did 95 seconds awarded Certificate Distinction ie Honorable Mention801 place think next year another whack Atlantic City Bamberger Aero Club Charles Grant editor MAN timer elimination flights together motorcycle sidecar watched crate go out over water lose altitude drift back over land back out etc etc went ten miles 25 minutes 53 seconds Got crate back great shape ready finalshaving survived eliminations Max Bassett also survived ready too finals crate disappeared after 7 minutes 57 secondsthe timers didnt chase after landed five miles AC Airportbut didnt know until Miss Loraine Reynolds found backyard Sunday morningshe fired letter read about contest Sunday paper Name address side fuselage course got crate backpretty much worse wear since trip Pleasantville NJ Lebanon PA wasnt bestpacking model airplanes different things Max us worried gas machinehe really cooking best unlimited gas supply 255 After much backing filling finally decided contest legal therefore results kaput Rea son English models crates too long having shipped over earlier date post poned until September 10 No trophy Have ever gotten nationwide publicity winnerLindy Lebanon thatand no trophy ex Gordon S Light plain hometown crowd No way Oh well back basement old sticks glue Us aeronauts dont have brains enuf take hint So 1933 mail deal sent crate over England JE Pelly-Fry flew breakhe much better coaxed 2 minutes 232 seconds out 1/10 sec ond behind second place third place medal very nice though JW Kenworthy won event 00S flight 521 Nor 1934 banner year Wakefield Grail campaign Again mail routine crashed entry made list contest results Something like 14 second flight 7 up 7 down Any thing less 20 recorded 1935 diversion Congrat ulations win complete mes sage cablegram received August 6 1935the contest previous day TH Ives proxy flier handled things nicely first flight 720 model out sight took off Faireys Aerodrome landed Hanworth Aerodrome after two-hour flight crate flown back Faireys Puss Moth great shape would have ready another flightbut wasnt necessary 2 minutes August 1976 51 Today ship end its designer equally good shapeso says model flyable hope Gordon wont too tempted model wes designed fit pecking box box dates 1934 New Zealand entry shipped Moffett model Charlie Grant US proxy flown WASS TUBNG BBASS TUBBG 1/16 ID\1WIRE \\wIRE ANd-CR ISCEDER 10 TL8ING PRcP 1/16 GA 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PECE CF BAMNOC LANONO GEAR1/16 50 BAMBOO TO MAKE -CLE FOR BAMBOC RSEOER SPAR WRAP WITH _________________________________________1/B SO LONGERCRTHREAD APE GLUE TO KEEP 14I\1FROM SPUTTING BALSA SANDED/6S0WIRE TAIL SKID ROUND FORCEI IN SHARPENED/1/B SO LONOEROR FOR STRUT BIND// 5/16x17/BDIA116 NOEROR PROP dCK 4S41/B41/B4t 1935 PION DesIBUed GORDON S LIGHT Proxy Ilown Ny T H IVES Ao5xsS 5 1635 FarreyS Aerodome England SPECIFICATEAS WING AREA16716 IC STAB AREA 6416 0 RLEIEER AREA WECHTS WING7lOoz STABNHDoz RLIXIERl400z PROPELLER 3oz RUBBER1 232oz MOTOR SThCK 4750 WHEELS 32r5oz FUSELASE TOTAL FLYING WEK3HT40750 1935 Wakefield Trophy 266 seconds average enough time did get trophy flash around also pay insurance plus shipping charges Joe E warned expensive getting married have custody mug Someone knows dropped thing world little flat vicinity Alaska Might still far know personally think Joe dropped Obviously proxy model important thing other good proxy flier good packing crate First must pass parcel post regulations length girth etc otherwise Post Office wont take means shipping express during depression no could afford So obviously have good box well advised build model fitso much easier sound tech nically other way around turns out Moffett Trophy con test Remember Charles Grant proxy flier New Zealand entry flown out sight took empty box camp Peru VT summer 1934 used box ship some models home Ob viously 1935 very much mind could struggle through model building part job shipping crate took talent way beyond model very much alive well after 41 years obviously better shape am Original covering though flew 1936 Detroit no great amount success phasing out being phased out engineering school model airplane article writing getting better Structural members minimumnot dihedral braces vertical fin duplicate half stabilizer time least fun handing trophy over AA Judge English team took back home think third two English lads ahead Incidentally shipping crate great shape too 1935 model gooder word go flew first time outa real shock since wasnt used good flight long struggle model design followed same basic design approach plagued since about 1930 cabin type fuselagemotorstick could crank turns cleaning away side fuselage things went bad lifting stab enormous finobviously half stab area same outline cabin window crud wasnt fancy since enabled look-see fastening motorstick clip Free-wheeler course Dihedral yes fixed shape boxno problem Interestingly enough flew model like crazy before shipping Something didnt 1934 Night/evening flights primarily Couldnt risk fly-away time too tight Al forgotearly morning dew flights too During evening flights thing dropped among herd cows caught up perched ground cows licking American Flag decal enormous attractive fin Probably though alfalfa blossom Well cows have feelings too saw took off jumped over model help moral story shouldnt have continued page 90 August 1976 53 Left Well things have kinda changed would say Spindly bamboo landing gear legs give clearance 24-in prop Below Because folder yet vented rubber-jobs used free-wheeling prop nose block motorstick integral unit case Legs removable 1935 Wakefield/Light continued page 53 flown its shipping container no other events during test flyingnothing dramatic profound No repairs really before incarceration turning over PO Department course about zillion small patches bottom fuselage landings cut stubbly grass etc Im tempted try fly crate again some time would foolish wouldnt mind having Ives could cope Lots Wakefield contests have held since 1935 performance course unbelievable dont know proxy flying done poor sub stitute real thing things during depression Old-timers will recall 1927 following years before depression significant prizes model contests Joe E won trophy England sponsored AMLA American Boy magazine arrived too late that1931 last cash prize year never returned during tour duty However assume required old-timer mumble better way wouldnt trade anything mumbled keeping chasing distance short handicap ped himself limiting motor run 20 seconds several flights over five minutes event strangely enough dont think anyone lost model event won Gene Wallock Astro 02-powered Ranger built Micro Models kit Bob Boucher showed em RC consecutively rolling Electra Twin model built around ASW 17 glider fuselage produced Boucher brothers Tony Addie Nacarato mother son team let big Aeronca C-3 go have radio malfunction ended up light damage wing Bill Daudson flew very pretty equally interesting Olympic Two con verted house Graupner electric motor folding prop assembly winners simple ex-static receive lightning-bolt trophies cast mounted man metal Bill Stroman sure got charge out watching meet would certainly like see growing interest electric powered models couple plugs help get started electric Write VL Pro ducts 7023-D Canoga Ave Canoga Park CA 91303 Astro Flight Inc 13377 Beach Ave Venice CA 90291 90 Model Aviation r CONGRATULATIONS Bill Stroman Astro 020 powered Gotha Taube shown 1st Free Flight Scale tmflrt Ann,*I Electric Meet continued Bill Stramans other entry twin-engined de Havilland biDlane flew very realistically Top Flite Ripped off night April 21 Top Flites plant broken valuable items destroyed stolen Since thieves limited themselves research de velopment area building took items interest model ers culprits known modelers prototype P-47D containing Kraf 1 61 taken silver Monokoted Head master show model containing PCS radio OS 19 stolen covered red white Monokote P-51 Mustangdis played WRAMS 1975was smashed obtain engine also P-51 CL P-39 show model same purpose Kraft KP5C system serial 17961 stolen also Kraft KP7C series 75 Serial No 34008 large amount special items also taken including about 50 different type enginesone Drone Diesel another K&B Torpedo Serial No G-1253 Anyone obtaining knowl edge of missing items urged contact Top Flite Models Inc 2635 5 Wabash Ave Chicago Ill