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Here’s a 1930’s classic with a modern twist that ensures a fun build with out-of-sight flights!


By Jim Wiggin


PHOTOGRAPHY: JIM WIGGIN T 52


here was a time in my life when most things were simple. Summer for me was an exercise in mowing lawns, yard work and staining


decks, all in the effort of saving enough mon- ey so that I could go to the local hobby shop and pick up my next freeflight model. Many a summer day and night would find me locked inside my bedroom, hunched over my workbench, whittling away on any given Comet, Guillows or Sterling rubber model.


This devoted work and concentration took place while a gentle breeze came in the win- dow and the Red Sox game played on a small black and white 13-inch television set. Ah, memories! I had a chance to relive some of those memories when I met Mark Freeland of Retro RC at this year’s Weak Signals show in Toledo. Mark’s booth was set up next to our FLYINGMODELS both. Mark had many of his freeflight models hung up and on display.


For somebody like me, an avid hacker of bal- sa and tissue, the models called to me and provided me with nothing but temptation. By Sunday I had enough and spoke to


Mark about purchasing some of his kits. He was nice enough to hand me one of his new models and the subject of this review. Mark designed the 24-inch News Flash as a larg- er version of the Joe Konefes original 16- inch Phantom Flash. Mark’s kit is also sub titled “Mel’s 18”.


FEBRUARY 2012


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