Free Flight: Duration
CARL GOLDBERG expires. The Free Flight competition world is saddened by the recent death of a man who was probably its most well-known personality, Carl Goldberg. His model designs of the Thirties and Forties established design precedents that remain with us to this day. Whereas he was often given the credit for inventing the pylon in which his Zipper designs promoted the concept, Carl continually passed this credit to one of his early associates, Andy Anderson. Carl did write the first commercially-printed article on dethermalizers for models-and this credit he did acknowledge. However, this innovation was just one of a great many which appeared in the model kits he designed during his long association with the Comet Model Airplane Company.
Free Flight: Duration
LIKE AS NOT, the answer to "What's new in Outdoor Free Flight?" these days can often produce some vintage item that has just popped to the surface after lying around submerged and relatively unnoticed for many years. Whereas some of our more contemporary readers may not consider the rediscovery of modeling artifacts as news, I, for one, certainly enjoy the stories that are usually associated with these instances; am a prime supporter of recording such things on paper while verification is still possible; and by no means feel that retaining a soft spot for a little modeling history is cause for any alarm that I may be unfurling the old "Free Flight is Dead" banner, again.
Free Flight: Duration
HERE it is, time to submit my second attempt at pounding out this column, and the magazine issue with my first effort has yet to hit the streets! Therefore, I haven't had the opportunity to respond to my initial mistakes before it is time to jump in and make some more. In contrast to issuing a newsletter, where it is not uncommon to receive reader responses by return mail, this delayed-action situation of rushing to meet deadlines and then having nothing happen for a couple of months feels rather strange to me. It is sort of like the suspense of knowing that you are going to be handed the bar bill for 20 people after a big night on the town-while everyone else is enjoying themselves, all you have on your mind is how badly are you going to get stung when it's all over?
Free Flight: Duration
GREETINGS. I feel I should make an initial comment or two in reference to Bob Meuser's name being displaced as the Contributing Editor for Free Flight Duration. First of all, Bob's many followers may rest their fears, because he will return to the same old stand in the next issue. However, since Bob has formally requested some relief in cranking out this column on a monthly basis, the boss has worked out a plan to accept his report on an "every-other-month" schedule and has subsequently lassoed this writer to attempt to fill the alternate monthly gaps. The plan also affords the opportunity to inject a sprinkling of a little Midwest flavor into the column, which we hope will prove to be an interesting contrast to Bob's fine reports. If it doesn't work out, I'm certainly going to toss the blame back in Bob's direction, because I understand that he is the culprit who volunteered me (Publisher's note: Not so! CRW.) for this chore in the first place. Anyway, here goes . . .
Max-a-million: 450
IT MAY BE quite timely to re-evaluate the apparent advantages of competing in various free flight events with the same model or models of identical or quite similar size and design. Aside from the obvious benefits of similar flight characteristics and interchangeability of model parts and engines, present environmental situations offer a growing influence in this regard. For example, the family car is rapidly becoming smaller, making the task of packing models for the contest trek continually more complex. Like models of the same size and design would tend to somewhat alleviate this chore. However, "multi-purpose" models capable of competing in more than one class could considerably ease the problem by decreasing the number of models required to compete.
