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Cavalry of the Clouds

Cavalry of the Clouds, March 1937 Flying Aces - Airplanes and RocketsArch Whitehouse's air adventure stories with wily ballistics expert and ace pilot Kerry Keen (alter ego, The Griffon) are one of my favorite reads in the vintage Flying Aces magazines. While testing their amphibious Black Bullet over Long Island, aviator Kerry Keen (the Griffon) and mechanic Barney O'Dare spot a stolen experimental aircraft - a winged fortress capable of carrying tanks. When Barney vanishes mysteriously, Keen discovers his partner has been entangled in a plot to steal "Avalin," a revolutionary armor formula. The trail leads to kidnapped movie star Doreen Yardley, who unknowingly received the formula- all while protecting Keen's masked identity...

The Boom in R/C Boats

The Boom in R/C Boats, June 1955 Popular Electronics - Airplanes and RocketsThis article entitled "The Boom in R/C Boats" appeared in the June 1955 edition of Popular Electronics magazine which, during the early years of its existence devoted quite a bit of print space to radio control airplanes, boats and cars. As with all things electronics, a huge surge in consumer interest was occurring with over-the-air communications. Bill (William) Winter served as the editor of the Academy of Model Aeronautics' (AMA's) American Modeler and American Aircraft Modeler magazines from 1966 through 1974, but his efforts to promote all form of modeling - airplanes, helicopters, cars, boats, trains, and rockets - covered many decades. His first recorded article, "Building the Famous Udet Flamingo," (co-authored by Walter McBride), was published in the March 1935 issue of Universal Model Airplane News magazine...

More... About Stunt Theory

More... About Stunt Theory, March 1957 Model Airplane News - Airplanes and RocketsIt would be interesting to do a side-by-side comparison on what was considered engineered control line stunt model airplane design in 1957, when this article was written, to what is today considered to be optimal design criteria. I am trying to get back into control line stunt flying and have one model built currently, the Enterprise-E. It has been flown a few times and is (was) extremely sensitive on the controls when set up per the plans. A little bit of control handle movements resulted in a huge amount of both elevator and flap deflection. Fortunately, access to the flap control horn is available through the removable top fuselage hatch, so I was able to relocate the pushrod from the bellcrank to the flap horn, and then from the flap horn...

Lite-Brite by Hasbro

Lite-Brite by Hasbro - Airplanes and RocketsWhen Melanie and I got married in 1983, part of her dowry included some of the toys she had as a little girl. A Hasbro Lite-Brite was one of them. Our kids played with it when they were young, but somewhere along the line during our many household moves, it disappeared. We probably donated it to the Salvation Army at some point - a lot of our stuff has ended up there. About a month ago we started watching for a good one on eBay that didn't cost too much. Finally, there was a 1967-vintage Lite-Brite in like-new condition up for auction that we got for around $45. It has a nice box...

Wild Bill Netzeband's Control Line Capers

Wild Bill Netzeband's Control Line Capers, October 1961 American Modeler - Airplanes and RocketsPer "Wild Bill" Netzenband's report in this 1961 issue of American Modeler magazine covered the Vancouver Bi-Liners, MAC highlights, Alan Nichols' success in Thompson Trophy Racer events, encouraging clubs to adopt the affordable, and slow-flying contests. He addresses backlogged club crest submissions, noting the impracticality of featuring all due to volume. Alan Nichols debunks the myth that models wear out quickly, citing his year-old Nobler and a five-year-old Fierce Arrow with original engine. Memories resurface of McDonnell Aircraft's picnic air shows, where Phil Hamm's reliable metal jet stood out. Southern California's new Control-Line Association, led by John Gudvangan and others, seeks enthusiasts. Detroit's Metropolitan Speed Association unveils an $8,000 Rouge Park speed circle, aiming for a competitive...

Pilots Matter in Age of Autonomous Planes

Why Pilots Matter in Age of Autonomous Planes - Airplanes and RocketsThis article entitled "Why Pilots Will Matter in the Age of Autonomous Planes" appeared in the June 2025 issue of IEEE's Spectrum magazine. "Long after planes start flying themselves, humans will still be in the loop. In August 2001, an anonymous guest posted on the forum at Airliners.net, a popular aviation website. 'How Long Will Pilots Be Needed?' they wondered, observing that '20 years or so down the road' technology could be so advanced that planes would fly themselves. 'So would it really be useful for a person to go to college now and be an airline pilot if a few years down the road they will be phased out by technology?' Twenty-four years later, the basic technology required to make aircraft fly themselves exists, as evidenced by the fact that most commercial flights are flown largely on autopilot..."

Flyin' Jenny Comic Strip: February 8, 1942

Flyin' Jenny Comic Strips: February 8, 1942 Baltimore Morning Sun - Airplanes and RocketsThis is the February 8, 1942, "Flyin' Jenny" comic strip. The Baltimore Sun newspaper, published not far from where I grew up near Annapolis, Maryland, carried "Flyin' Jenny" from the late 1930s until the strip ended in the mid 1940s, so I saved a couple dozen from there. The first one I downloaded has a publication date of December 7, 1941 - that date "which will live in infamy," per President Roosevelt. Many Americans were receiving word over the radio of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor while reading this comic at the breakfast table. I expect that soon there will be World War II themes. "Flyin' Jenny," whose real name was Virginia Dare (what's in a name?), was a test pilot for Starcraft Aviation Factory who divided her time between wringing out new airplane designs and chasing bad guys. She was the creation of artist and storyteller Russell Keaton...

Peanuts Skediddler Collection

Peanuts Skediddlers Collection - Airplanes and RocketsThis is the complete set of Peanuts Skediddlers, sold by Mattel. Linus is extremely difficult to find, and when you do, he typically sells for $200 or more. If you find a Linus Skediddler with the original box, expect to pay $400. Over time, our (Melanie and me) Peanuts collection of memorabilia has grow from the few items she had left over from her girlhood to complete sets. Everything was gotten via eBay auctions. It took a lot of patience to be able to get good quality items at an affordable price. Here is a bit of history I gathered on the Skediddlers. Phenomenon: In the mid-to-late 1960s, Mattel capitalized on the explosive popularity of Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip by releasing the Skediddler - a line of friction-powered toys. Unlike wind-up mechanisms, these toys relied on a simple push-and-go design: sliding them across a surface activated internal gears, causing the characters' limbs and heads to jerk in a whimsical "skedaddling"...

The Reds Aren't Stallin'!

The Reds Aren't Stallin'!, February 1949 Air Trails - Airplanes and RocketsThis 1949 Air Trails magazine article warns that the Soviet Union has surpassed the U.S. in military aircraft production by a 15-to-1 margin, with advanced jet fighters, bombers, and long-range piston-engine planes already operational. Soviet scientists have also conducted atomic tests and are close to producing compact A-bombs. Intelligence reveals a Red Air Force of 15,000 first-line aircraft, including 2,400 jets, some surpassing American designs. The Soviets broke the sound barrier before the U.S. and have developed powerful turbojet engines, some with innovative features like variable-pitch stators. German scientists and captured technology accelerated Soviet progress, particularly in rocketry and jet propulsion. Their aircraft feature advanced construction techniques, such as metal-plywood sandwich wings, and superior armament...

Glider Winch Construction Article

American Aircraft Modeler Glider Winch Construction Article (April 1973 American Aircraft Modeler) - Airplanes and RocketsA long time ago (circa 1977) I bought a used glider winch at an auction held by the Prince Georges Radio Club, in Maryland. It cost me somewhere around $25, which was a lot for me in the mid 1970s. The motor and control circuitry was contained in a plywood box, with a jack for the foot switch and terminals to clamp jumper cable to from a car. In looking at these plans for the AAM Glider Winch shown here from the April 1973 American Aircraft Modeler, it looks a lot like mine, only mine was in a wooden box. It worked extremely well for my 99" Windfree and 99" Aquila sailplanes. Unfortunately, I sold it shortly after getting married in 1983 (couldn't eat the winch). I would love to have it back. Actually, what I would rather have at this point is a winch that is powered by a cordless drill that would be lighter...

Weather Surveillance by Satellite

Weather Surveillance by Satellite, March 1967 Electronics World - Airplanes and RocketsWe take for granted most of the technology that surrounds us. Unless you were alive 60 years ago at the dawn of microelectronics and space flight, it would be difficult to imagine a world without cellphones, desktop computers, color TVs, the Internet, and even satellite-base weather forecasting. Everyone likes to make jokes about weathermen being no better at predicting the weather than your grandmother's roomatiz[sic], but the fact is that, especially for short-term (2-3 days) predictions, we get pretty good information. As a model airplane flyer, I check the wind level forecast nearly every day to see whether my model plane can handle it. AccuWeather's free hourly forecast is usually pretty darn accurate for today's and tomorrow's wind...

Phineas Pinkham: Smoke Scream

Phineas Pinkham: Smoke Scream, March 1937 Flying Aces - Airplanes and RocketsIn this 1937 "Smoke Scream" in a 1937 issue of Flying Aces magazine, by Joe Archibald, Lt. Phineas Pinkham, the 9th Pursuit Squadron's resident troublemaker, stumbles into chaos when he encounters an elephant named Hungha Tin and its Hindu mahout. After the elephant drinks a bottle of arnica meant for a local's backache, it goes berserk, wreaking havoc across the Allied camp. Meanwhile, Brigadier Scruggs confesses to Pinkham that he sleepwalked and handed top-secret battle plans to an unknown spy. Pinkham, framed by the mahout - who's actually a German agent - unknowingly smokes a drugged cigarette and nearly flies a stolen Spad to the enemy. The vengeful elephant interrupts his forced defection, allowing Pinkham to escape with Hauptmann von Spieler as his prisoner. Back at base, Pinkham...

Control-Line Aerodynamics Made Painless

Control-Line Aerodynamics Made Painless, December 1967 American Modeler - Airplanes and RocketsThe Academy of Model Aeronautics is granted tax-exempt status because part of its charter is for activity as an educational organization. I think as time goes on, it gets harder for the AMA for fulfill that part of its mission because presenting anything even vaguely resembling mathematics or science to kids (or to most adults for that matter), is the kiss of death for gaining or retaining interest. This article, "Control-Line Aerodynamics Made Painless," was printed in the December 1967 edition of American Modeler magazine, when graphs, charts, and equations were not eschewed by modelers. It is awesome. On rare occasions a similar type article will appear nowadays in Model Aviation magazine for topics like basic aerodynamics and battery / motor parameters. Nowadays, it seems, the most rigorous classroom material that the AMA can manage to slip into schools is a box of gliders and a PowerPoint presentation...

Aeronautical Antiques

Aeronautical Antiques, from April 1957 American Modeler - Airplanes and RocketsPeter Bowers first became know to me because of his Fly Baby homebuilt airplane. It won the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) design contest in 1962. Back in the middle and late 1970s, I was taking flying lessons and dreaming big about building my own aerobatic biplane. Being an avid woodworker, the Fly Baby appealed to me because it was constructed entirely of wood, except for a few critical metal fittings. My plan was to build the biplane version of the Fly Baby. Like so many other things, the aeroplane never got built. Peter Bowers was not only an aeronautical engineer and airplane designer but also an aviation historian and model airplane enthusiast...

FlightGear Open Source (Free) Flight Simulator

FlightGear Open Source Flight Simulator - Airplanes and Rockets"FlightGear" is an Open Source (aka Free) flight simulator program which I first wrote about in 2012. It has come a long way - and was pretty dran good, aven back then - and is now a viable competitor for Microsoft's Flight Simulator (MSFS). The leatest release as of this writing is 2024.1.1. The graphics are superb and easily on par with MSFS. FlightGear has a joystick interface, but I don't own a joystick, so my experience with it using keyboard inputs. VR headsets are also supported now. The basic download comes with a couple dozen aircraft, and there are many additional models available as separate downloads. FlightGear runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. Thanks to all the folks who have spent their valuable time developing FlightGear! FlightGear website: "FlightGear is an open-source flight simulator. It supports a variety of popular platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.) and is developed by skilled volunteers from around the world...

Sketchbook, October 1950 Air Trails

Sketchbook, October 1950 Air Trails - Airplanes and RocketsThe October 1950 Air Trails magazine showcases modelers' innovations, including H.G. Oliver's Plexiglas skids for speed models and Don Nelson's booster battery setup. Ray Biernacki suggests keeping brushes soft with thinner fumes, while Richard Larson offers a footswitch for bench testing. Ted Jones improves dethermalizer safety, and Charles Francis simplifies its design. Willard Hafler's flying wing excels in speed and sport flying, and Leon Shulman repurposes a crankcase recess as a fuel tank. The magazine encourages readers to submit their own ideas, paying $2 per accepted sketch. These practical, cost-saving solutions highlight the creativity of mid-century model aviation enthusiasts, blending engineering ingenuity with accessible materials - a snapshot of hobbyist innovation in postwar America...

Guillow No. D4 Menasco Trainer Kit

Guillow No. D4 Menasco Trainer Kit - Airplanes and RocketsThe No. D4 Menasco Trainer kit was manufactured by the Paul K. Guillow Company beginning in the late 1930s. The date on the plans is 1939. It was given to me by Mr. Steven Krick from part of his very large collection of vintage model airplane kits. It might be one of the earliest surviving Guillow kits. The Menasco Trainer has a diminutive wingspan of just 7-9/16 inches. No box accompanied the kit parts. The only balsa provided was square strips die cut from 0.050" (3/64") sheet, and a block for the nose. The hardwood thrust button arrived broken into four pieces, so I carefully glued it back together. The remaining parts including wing ribs, curved tip pieces, fuselage formers (0.032" material), and even the propeller blades (0.012" material) are printed on stiff card stock ...

Mechanics Technology Science Photo Revue

Mechanics Technology Science Photo Revue, December 1954 Air Trails - Airplanes and RocketsAir Trails - Hobbies for Young Men magazine covered a wide variety of subjects of both model and full-scale. All things fast and/or exotic were of great interest to America's youth in the day, and everything was fair game for modeling. Lockheed's now long-famous C-130 Hercules was just making its maiden flight as a prototype YC-130 in 1954 when this edition was published. Grumman's F9F-9 Tiger jet fighter became the F11F Tiger while the F9F designation became the significantly different-looking F9F Cougar - no confusion there. The Cessna 620, a 4-engine version of their successful 310 (get it? - 2 x 310 = 620), never made it past the prototype phase ...

Carve the Italian Beretta 9mm Pistol

Carve the Italian Beretta 9mm Pistol, December 1954 Air Trails - Airplanes and RocketsFinding an article in a modern model airplane magazine like this "Carve the Italian Beretta 9mm Pistol" from a 1954 issue of Air Trails is highly unlikely. For that matters, seeing an advertisement like the Polk's Hobbies Antique Gun Reproductions on the same page has equally low odds. It's not that boys are no longer interested in guns, it's that publishers are afraid to promote them in any manner - even for historical education purposes. Our politicians promote policies that allow criminals to enter the country bringing drugs, weapons, and other contraband; judges set criminals free or lightly sentence them; schools teach kids that all guns by all people (including police and military) are bad, and then want to remove all guns from law-abiding citizens. As the old saying goes, then only the bad guys will have guns. The morons believe putting an orange cap at the end of the barrel on toys guns will save the day, when all a criminal needs to do...

Biceps Article & Plans

Biceps Article & Plans - April 1969 American Aircraft Modeler - Airplanes and RocketsAirplanes and Rockets website visitor Ray L. wrote to say he has a Biceps control line model that appeared in the April 1969 edition of American Aircraft Modeler magazine, and that he would like to have the article posted. Per Roy, "I bought this model from one of our club members who is a team race flier and built it on a whim, he fitted it with electric and had it test flown by one of our aerobatic pilots and after that he lost interest it and I was happy to give it a good home, the quality of build and finish is to pro standards." Power in the original was a Fox .59, wingspan is 48". AMA Plans Service still prints the Biceps plans.

Bombs of the World War

Bombs of the World War, May 1934 Flying Aces - Airplanes and RocketsThese are not your father's bombs; in fact, they're your great-grandfather's bombs. Note that per the title "Bombs of the World War," there was no "I" or "1" appended to it. That is because as we learned in grammar class in elementary school while being instructed on creating outlines, one does not assign a number "1" or a letter "a" or "A" if there will be no number "2" or letter "b" or B." Since what we now refer to as World War I was "the war to end all wars," there was no expectation that there would someday be a World War II. Hence, up until the end of 1941, people referred to the 28 July, 1914 through 11 November, 1918 conflict simply as the "the World War" or "the Great War." But I digress. Many of the bombs shown here were tossed out of the cockpit by either the pilot or back seat bomber/gunner. BTW, when I saw that the Whitehead Aircraft Torpedo supposedly had an 8,000 yard (24,000 feet, or 4.5 miles) range running on compressed air...

Important Facts About Balsa Wood, Sig Catalog

Important Facts About Balsa Wood, Sig Catalog - Airplanes and RocketsBalsa wood was a special thing to me as a kid. To me, it represented the essence of model airplanes and model rockets. At the time - the 1960s and 70s - plastic and foam as model components were considered a sign of cheapness, low quality, amateurishness. It was like having "Made in Japan" stamped on it. Now, of course, it's a different world where Japan is renowned for some of the highest quality electronics and cars and the plastic and foam ARFs represent some of the highest-performing aircraft at the flying field. I have owned a few of those foamies, but still, at least for my tastes, nothing beats the look, feel and aroma of balsa. Somehow the tell-tale surface texture of foam, even with a nice paint job, ruins the authenticity of an otherwise beautifully factory-finished scale F4-U Corsair or P-38 Lightning. Sorry, that's just the way it is. Sig Manufacturing was ...

Facts About Microfilm

Facts About Microfilm, May 1954 Model Airplane News - Airplanes and RocketsMicrofilm-covered indoor models is one (of many) aspects of model airplane building and flying that I've always wanted to try, but never found the opportunity. You might be tempted to think this is the exclusive realm of white-haired old men, and admittedly it nearly is, but when you look at contest coverage in the modeling magazines, it is heartening to see a good showing of youngsters. For that matter, the same holds true for just about all forms of model aircraft these days except for radio controlled airplanes and helicopters. As recently as a couple decades ago, radio equipment was too expensive for many younger modelers to buy, so those who aspired to hobbies involving airborne craft had to settle for free flight and control line. Now, the department store shelves hold no control line or free flight models, but a nice selection of miniature R/C helis and airplanes. But I digress. This 1954 Model Airplanes News magazine article by John Zaic is a very comprehensive set of instructions on how to cover airframes with microfilm, a pyroxylin...

Packard Bell Legend 406CD Desktop Computer

Packard Bell Legend 406CD Desktop Computer - Airplanes and RocketsBeing a lover of vintage electronics and aircraft modeling equipment, I had the bright idea that I would buy a vintage Packard Bell desktop computer like I had many moons ago and transplant the innards of my ASUS G750JX Republic of Gamers (RoG) notebook computer into it. After carefully measuring the notebook computer's outside dimensions and estimating the size of the various models of PB computers, I settled on a Packard Bell Legend 406CD and bought it from a guy on eBay. I wanted the type that actually sits on the desktop, with the monitor sitting on top of it. The computer arrived as advertised - dirty but in good mechanical condition, and cleanable. Having never opened the ASUS G750JX ...

View-Master: Snoopy and the Red Baron 3-Reel Set

View-Master: Snoopy and the Red Baron 3-Reel Set B544 - Airplanes and RocketsIn my continuing effort to help make certain that the history of Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic series is preserved, this set of View-Master slides has been scanned and/or photographed as required. If you want to own this "Snoopy and the Red Baron" set, there are probably copies available on eBay, which is where I bought this set. It is in like-new condition. Charles Schulz drew all of the daily comic strips himself, but he did license other artists to draw his characters for some commercial products, and these appear to be so. In fact, of all the Peanuts comics I have seen - and I have probably seen most of them - this accompanying booklet contains the only non-Peanuts type character I can remember seeing. Picture 19 on the last page shows a nonschultzian [sic] French woman bidding farewell to Snoopy the World War II Flying Ace ...

AMA National Model Aviation Museum Donations

Parris-Dunn Little Bobby Kite Kit - Airplanes and RocketsThis notice just appeared on the AMA's National Model Aviation Museum website: "New Addition: Helicopter Kite Kirt Blattenberger (AMA 92498) and Steven Krick recently donated two older kits to the museum, including this Parris-Dunn Little Bobby Helicopter Kite kit." The second kit, not yet featured on the AMA website, is the Guillow No. D4 Menasco Trainer kit. Both were generously given to me by Mr. Steven Krick, who is an accomplished modeler of highly detailed plastic static scale model airplanes and a collector of vintage balsa free flight models. In response to my providing some Silkspan covering information, he offered to let me select from a list of kits, and seeing these two and the likely rarity of them, I submitted them the the museum for consideration. They appreciatively accepted them.

Ephemeris - Class A and FAI Free Flight Model

Ephemeris - Class A and FAI Free Flight Article & Plans, March/April 1963 American Modeler - Airplanes and RocketsThe "Ephemeris" Class A and FAI free flight model was somewhat of a sensation in the modeling world back in 1963 when it appeared in the March/April issue of American Modeler magazine because it featured up thrust. Its designer, R. Jess Krieser, was "thinking outside the box" before the term was even coined. Mr. Krieser took an engineering approach to redesigning the Carl Goldberg "Sailplane" model and after examining tables and graphs on L/D curves on airfoil drag coefficients, settled on the final form factor that became the Ephemeris. Read about it here...

New Extension Shaft Reduces Engine Repairs

New Extension Shaft Reduces Engine Repairs, October 1941 Flying Aces - Airplanes and RocketsThis propeller extension shaft featured in a 1941 issue of Flying Aces magazine is an example of a concept that seemed like a good idea on paper, but probably proved to be a disaster in practice. If you have ever had an R/C helicopter with an even slightly bent main rotor shaft, then you know how the situation causes vibrations whose severity varies with the amount of bending and the rotation rate of the shaft. Helicopter main rotors turn at a fairly low rate compared to an aircraft propeller, although the mass and diameter of the propeller is much less than a rotor. Even so, I imagine the vibration caused by even a slightly bent propeller shaft extension when the engine is running at peak RPM is very high - enough to cause the situation to quickly get worse. It is a runaway situation where the bend increases, causing worse vibration, which causes more bending, causing greater vibration, etc., etc., etc. An additional problem would be caused by the longer moment arm causing additional wear on the crankshaft bearings and/or bushings, particularly during abrupt change in the airplane's pitch angle. The proof that propeller extension shafts were not...

Radio Control News

Radio Control News, May 1954 Model Airplane News - Airplanes and Rockets1954 was just a decade after World War II, during which time the Army Signal Corps introduced a method of printing - or etching - metallic circuit conductors on an insulator substrate, and thus was born the printed circuit board (PCB). The first boards used a phenolic-paper laminate, which is the shiny brown substrate material that is still found in some industrial applications like motors and control panels. Ferric chloride was used to etch away the copper foil not masked off with photoresist chemicals. I made many crude PCBs using a resist ink pen to draw circuit traces and component mounting pads, then etched away the exposed copper with ferric chloride purchased at Radio Shack. This line from the article is reminiscent of people who remarked similarly about the first televisions and computers: "One of the first questions that arises is: 'What good is it and what do I gain by using it?'" Printed inductors were already being used, as the photo shows...

Air Strength of the Soviet Union

Air Strength of the Soviet Union, October 1941 Flying Aces - Airplanes and RocketsDuring World War II, Russia was considered an ally, being part of the Allied forces battling the Axis powers. The Allied countries were primarily the USA, England, the Soviet Union, China, and France. The Axis of evil was primarily Germany, Japan, and Italy. Interesting, isn't it, that after saving Russia from the Germans and China from the Japanese, they almost immediately became our arch enemies, seeking to destroy the "Capitalist Pigs." Reportedly, Stalin was originally to join with Hitler, but the two could not agree on how to share power in the event of victory. Negotiations went awry after both countries invaded Poland in 1939, which in spite of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, effectively triggered the beginning of World War II. For a deep dive into behind-the-scenes WWII actions, be sure to watch the entire six season of Hogan's Heroes ;-)...

Wild Bill Netzeband's Control Line Capers

Wild Bill Netzeband's Control Line Capers (January/February 1963 American Modeler) - Airplanes and RocketsJust as originally intended, a lot of people have contacted me after seeing themselves, a friend, or a family member mentioned in one of these articles published in vintage American Modeler and American Aircraft Modeler magazines. Often, it came as the result of reporting on a modeling event, like the "Mid-America Stunt Championships" covered here in "Wild Bill Netzeband's Control Line Capers" column in the January / February 1963 issue of American Modeler magazine. Do a site-wide search of Airplanes and Rockets to see if your name appears somewhere. Also in the article is a report of Veco's new 35C and also on a game-changing monoline control handle for C/L racing. A comical "Things You Wouldn't Know" section is included to provide the "real" meaning of words used by modelers. Did you know that Bob Violett and Cliff Telford of R/C racing fame did C/L racing as well?



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