Sky Baby
HALF-A RACERS are fun! No doubt about it, of all of Control Line Racing's many events, the 1/2A Scale Racers and Mouse Racers are the really fun contests. If you're going to be racing, of course it's even better to win. With this thought in mind, you may want to look over our Sky-Baby, a truly competitive machine that has evolved over a period of five years and at least as many airplanes, and has been in the winner's circle more often than not. The actual Sky-Baby, the ship after which our model is patterned, was first known as Art Chester's original Sweepea Goodyear racer. When Sweepea II was built, with its longer and deeper fuselage, the old Sweepea was sold to Chester's mechanic, Lynn Kauffold, who then stretched and deepened its fuselage and renamed the resulting aircraft the Sky-Baby.
Martinsyde Scout S.1
"OH, YOU'VE GOT a Tabloid." "Nope." "Bristol?" "Sorry." "Must be a Thomas-Morse, then." "Not at all." "Uh-just what is it anyway?" "It's a Martinsyde S.1." "Never heard of it!" The foregoing exchange is a typical first encounter with one of the Great Wars' most-forgotten combat airplanes. Designed by A. A. Fletcher shortly before the outbreak of World War I, the S.1 was typical of its generation. It had a fabric-covered, wire-braced, wooden airframe and was powered by an 80-hp Gnome rotary engine.
