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Last flights of Space Shuttle fleet The February issue was wonderful as al-
ways. Nice mix of subjects. Tom Sandor’s Hansa-Brandenburg looks like another can- didate for micro R/C conversion. Just one comment that may interest your readers, in regards to that photo of the NASA 747/Shuttle model in Greg Moore’s Fan Facts column. Aviation enthusiasts across the country will note that this combination will fly just three more times. The retired space shuttles will soon be moving to their new homes in museums around the country. Discovery will be flown from the Kennedy
Space Center in Florida to Dulles Airport for its accession into the Smithsonian’s collec- tion at the Udvar-Hazy Center in mid April 2012. Then Enterprise will be transported to the JFK Airport in New York City in late April.
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trip to the Intrepid Museum in Manhattan by barge in early June, there she will be on display on the flight deck of the former USS Intrepid in a temporary inflatable structure. Endeavor will make the trip to California
later in the year, landing at LAX and then transported overland to the California Sci- ence Center. Both Intrepid and the California museum
will be constructing new buildings over the next few years to permanently house these national treasures. Atlantis will stay in Flori- da and be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center. Check your local news sources for ex- act dates and times so you can personally see the last flights of the Space Shuttle fleet. ERIC BOEHM
Curator, Aviation & Aircraft Restoration Intrepid Sea,Air & Space Museum New York, NY
Not like some others This is to thank you for continuing to find
and publish articles of real and practical in- terest to those of us who still like to fully en- joy this hobby by building our own models. I don’t often actually build the models you feature, since I’m not an electric flier and I’ve never tried freeflight, especially here in Maine where we have 90% woods. I’m main- ly an R/C sport guy, with some R/C scale thrown in, but I can always find ideas in what you print. I’m grateful that your mag- azine hasn’t become an illustrated catalog like some of the others have done.
This month (February issue) I especially
liked your “tools” article for ideas even an old dog can learn from, and I plan to save the sliced wing ribs feature and try it on a fu- ture scale project. The photo on page 49 of the yellow-winged
plane brought back memories. Almost twen- ty years ago I built the Randy Randolph Be- tween, a rudder-only plane using a Cox .049 engine. I was still a beginner then (maybe I still am!) but that little plane flew like a rocket while I tried to control it with only rudder and elevator, until I dove it into the ground. It’s now on display in my garage where it never crashes. Keep up the good work.
FRANK MAGUIRE South Portland, ME
The smell of nostalgia The first column I look at is the Old
Timer Topics. I really enjoy it. I started in model building when I was five or six and have been doing it for seventy years to date. Electric is okay, but not on the old timer models. You don’t get the white gas/motor oil smell from the electrics like you do from the engines that they should be flown with. Models of original models should use no electric. Just my thoughts. Many may disagree.
BILL MITCH Hebron, IN
Stirring the memory bank Mike Myer’s mention of Gotham Hobby “Deezil” Diesel engine in his Oldtimer Top- ics column (March, 2012) sure stirred the old memory! I bought one in 1949 as a kit. Ripe age of 10. I couldn’t figure out where the round slug went (contra piston) and eventu- ally the pieces got thrown out! Fast forward to the ’60s and my engine collection had acquired maybe about ten of them. I pieced together two runners and one glow conversion that ran! Things got a lot better a few years ago when CS made a re- production that ran well except, when I put it on an original Comet Rookie Trainer (which I flew at one time with a Buzz C glow). I never got a flight, as the Deezil al- most shook the nose off the plane! I think it was the plane as the “Deezil” Diesel ran well on the test stand?
DAVID KEATS via e-mail
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