1/2 A Time Machine - 2007/07
DESIGNED BY JOHN FERRER
AND BOB HATCH
I FIRST SAW the Time Machine fly in the
early 1990s, when I attended an FF contest at
Harts Lake Prairie, Washington. Bob Hatch—
one of its co-designers—was putting up flight
after flight and max after max with it.
Tic Tac
PUT A TIC-TAC in the air and get a bang out of flight-it's a clean, fresh explosion of fun. Designed to use that Pee Wee .020 from a worn out ready-to-fly plastic model, it can be built for around $3.00 and some odds and ends from your scrap box. Does it fly? You bet! In fact, you'll need to watch the engine run or you'll put it out of sight. Quick to build, you can put it together in two or three evenings, making it the closest thing to A.R.F. (almost-ready-to fly) free flight that you can find nowadays. It won't win any contests for you. It's not supposed to. If your idea of free flight fun doesn't extend to the competitive arena, or if you're just getting started in free flight-or if you would like to get out of the rut, the Tic Tac is for you.
