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Dolly and Bob Wischer and the second place Douglas Mailplane(above left). The plane used PCS radio, Enya .60 and weighed 10 pounds. Perennial Nats


lishing that year and found an RCM article with great photos on the 1971 Nats. At this time the US Navy was still sponsoring the Nats which were held that year at the U.S Naval Air Station, Glenview, IL. That was the 40th AMA Nats. Rather than write a lot of text I decided to


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share some of those great photos with you from both the scale and pattern categories. The scale event was again the top specta- tor attraction. It also continued to be the


look at my “Vintage Views Years List” revealed that I had not writ- ten about R/C in 1971. I decided to see what the magazines were pub-


competitors, Louise and Ed Izzo (above right), brought a new original plane for the CX event. It used a Pro-Line radio, retracts and a Webra engine.


toughest of all R/C events as more detail goes into the Scale replicas every year. “It’s like building a home built” was the average comment heard from the Scale competitors. Top scale points went to Hale Wallace for


his amazing Lumley Chipmunk which, un- fortunately, was a crash victim on the first round. Maxey Hester took first place with Bob Wischer, second and John Roth, third. Class C Pattern fliers had seven rounds of qualification flights to determine the top 20 who would proceed to the finals. Norm Page of Chicago was the top qualifier. In six rounds it was Ron Chidgey of Pensacola, FL who was first, Don Coleman of New Orleans,


LA was second and “Jersey” Jim Martin was third. I hope you will enjoy seeing photos of the


’71 Nats and the great planes that were flown.


Readers write From Frank Gruswitz: “Enjoyed the ar-


ticles, they brought back memories. I am an 83-year-old modeler in St. Louis. I have a ton of old model magazines which I read all the time. “While I am currently flying a Sig 4 Star


120 with a SuperTigre 2500 in it and enjoy- ing all the aerobatics I can do with it, I still


Best Flight Achievement went to this fifth place Handley Page WWI bomber (above left) by Ralph Jackson. The bomber used a Kraft radio, weighed 8¹⁄₄ pounds and featured scale folding wings. It flew with two Max .30 engines with four-blade props. An impressive model no matter what era. Top scale points went to the Lumley Chipmunk(above right) by Hale Wallace. Unfortunately the


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beautiful ship was totaled on the first flight. It weighed 9 pounds and used a Kraft radio and a Webra .60 for power. Hale spent three years building this model and after the crash decided that the next plane he built would be big enough to get into. His full-size Steen Skyboltwas the result of that decision and he built it in three years, the same time span of the Chipmunkmodel.


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