Focal Point
After 30 Years
Ivan McKinney (331 Greenacres Blvd., Bossier City, LA 71111; E-mail: ivanmckinney@prodigy.net) built this 96-inch-span Telemaster with SuperTigre .90 power as his first construction effort after 30 years out of the hobby.
"Almost everything about the hobby surely has changed," he wrote. "I had my first experience of using some of the new stuff, like cyanoacrylate glue, an airborne glow driver and backup battery, etc."
Electric Jetstream
Jerry Smartt forwarded this photo of a 1/15-scale BAe Jetstream 41 built by John Thompson (51 Dale Rd., Hythe, Southampton SO45 5DR England). The model is finished in British Aerospace demonstrator colors.
The 48-inch-span Jetstream is powered by two Speed 480BB direct-drive motors on eight Sanyo 2000 cells. It had yet to fly at the time the photo was taken.
This One's for Him
Carlos E. Santa-Maria (4717A Hawk Ct., Bridgeton, MO 63044) built this Midwest CAP 232. The power plant is a Brison 3.2 with a Zinger 22 x 8 prop. Covering is UltraCote, with Perfect Paint, Krylon, and Die Hard Graphics. Weight is 16 pounds including the TME smoke system. Guidance is by Futaba radio.
"I build RC airplanes for a living," wrote Carlos, "and I decided to build this one for myself. It flies like a dream, and its aerobatic performance is excellent."
Pitts Special
Rim Brown (1619 Hoskins Ln., Middletown, OH 45042; Tel.: (513) 422-0998) took a while to get his Midwest Pitts Special completed.
"My son bought this kit in 1980 and didn't have time to build it," he wrote. "He gave it to me in 1994, and I finally completed it this year."
"It flies like the original—very hot, with plenty of power." The 48-inch-span model weighs seven pounds and is powered by a Rossi .60. Radio is a JR.
Scratch-Built Sikorsky
Rick Rieg (4024 Granger Rd., Medina, OH 44256) built this 1/4-scale CH-54A Skycrane. The O.S.-powered model has belt drive for the six-bladed main rotor and flex drive to the tail rotor.
Rick took a year-and-a-half to design and build the model, starting with a three-view and a 1/2-scale plastic kit. "I wanted to build something that I had never seen built before," he wrote.
Facetmobile
Alex Konopacki (862 SE Atlantis Ave., Port St. Lucie, FL 34983) of the Sun Dancers RC Club built this version of Barnaby Wainfan's Facetmobile per an article in Sport Aviation, October 1994.
Size is 38 x 30 inches. Control functions are rudder, elevator, engine, canard, and aileron.
Spruce Goose
Herb Wiedemann (220 High View Dr., Boulder, CO 80304; E-mail: Hwiedemann1@juno.com) sent this photo of a 12-foot replica of the famed eight-engine H-4 flying boat, which made a single one-minute flight in 1947.
The late Marvin Lewis began the project in 1989, and members of the Boulder Aeromodeling Society completed the model following Lewis' death in 1996.
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Extra 230 Meets Star Wars®
Thomas W. Haake (174 Holly Hill Rd., Richboro, PA 18954) built this Zimpro Marketing Extra 230.
Power is a YS 1.20, with radio by JR. Finish is K&B epoxy. The 73-inch-span model weighs 10 pounds, and "is piloted by a Star Wars® figure."
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