Flat Albert
Joe Wagner's little Dakota Bipe, a popular kit of the 1950s, will always be the sport Free Flight biplane. So-do we really need another? I can'.t answer that. All I can say is that Flat Albert came to me in a flash while I was looking.something up in the Britannica. Suddenly I saw this funny-lodking shape in my head something between.a Hiperbipe and a Velie Monocoupe. Before it had a chance to fade, I whipped out a sheet of paper and sketched it. And here (with a few modifications) it is.
A Celebration of Eagles
A once-in-a-life-time gathering of many great names in aeromodeling. Muncie, 6 July: It's eight p.m. - cocktail hour all across the Midwest - and I'm standing directly under Carl Goldberg's 1937 Valkyrie, gazing out over a sea of people, sloshing about under a low sky of model aircraft. This is Frank V. Ehling Museum at AMA Headquarters - eight thousand square feet jammed to the rafters with the history of our sport. And the people? Oh, lucky day! These are the men who were the boys who created that sport.
Snap Dragon: "Easy and Cute" FF Sport Model
BIPLANES are cute. Profile biplanes, like SnapDragon, are easy and cute. That's good, because the older I get, the better I like easy. My old adolescent impatience, that wild urge to get it finished and into the air, has returned. I welcome it. (I welcome just about any youthful urge that returns - as long as it doesn't bring the pimples with it.) If you suffer from similar urges, maybe SnapDragon is for you. You can build one in about the time it takes to read the article, assuming you're a slow reader. Check it out: only seven major parts, six of which are cut from 1/16 × 4 balsa. Use medium-weight C-grain, if you can find it. The seventh part, the fuselage, is soft 1/4 stock. Everything else comes from scrap, except wheels and engine. Engines aren't scrap these days - haven't been since the fifties, when they cost $3.95 new.
