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really appreciate the stories and pic- tures that you folks out there send me. I’m shameless about using them, but then the stories and pictures need to be


shared with others, and I’m just the guy to do it! Mike Moskow sent me a picture of his Ted Just Streak. Ted Just was a member of the 1928 and 1939 US Wakefield teams. Big rubber airplanes have a special air about them, and this is a big one with a 56-inch wing span and 286 inches of wing area (al- though some claim the wing area is actual- ly 310 square inches). The Streak design originally appeared in


the August 1939 issue of Model Airplane News. Ron Baddorf described building a Streak in the July/August 1993 issue ofSAM Speaks. Moskow says that the model has a single-bladed free wheeling prop with a ten- inch blade. I’ve got a thing for “seldom seen” models and this one certainly qualifies. Every now and then Mike sends me a picture of a beautiful scale model—or this Streak— to let me know that real rubber modelers are still alive and well in Maryland. Al Pardue sent me a photo of a kit for a


“rocket powered” ship, the Ray. The idea of using a CO2 “jet” to power a freeflight mod- el has intrigued a lot of people over the years. I can recall seeing a modeler by the name of either Junkins or McJunkins flying a CO2 “jet” powered freeflight model down at the old Mile Square Park in the early ’90s. His model used an onboard aluminum tank that could be refilled, along with a valve that opened into a jet nozzle. I suspect that the heavy steel CO2 cartridges used in the Ray may have created just a little bit of a c.g. problem. And that in turn is probably why the Ray kit is still in its unbuilt condi- tion. But as long as there are model


PHOTO: MIKE MOSKOW PHOTO: BILL SCHMIDT Bill Schmidt finds that Zipper A’sare like peanuts. You can’t stop at just one.


builders, there’ll be dreamers with ideas. I’ve got my own list of modeling heroes,


and the late Ernie Linn of Wichita, Kansas is one of them. Ernie is in the SAM Hall of Fame. He got there by performing a great service for all of us. Along with Jim Adams, Ernie sat down in the early 1990s and did the necessary research to create the first “of- ficial” list of recognized old time gas power designs. Ernie’s Kansas Champion Wake- field design, along with Ernie, was honored at a SAM Champs in the late ’90s. Vince Burton sent the photo. Vince also sent me a photo of his Jimmie


Allen Spartan Bomber. The Spartan Bomber is a bit of a difficult build (although I’ve seen several of them). Bob Holman has a short kit for the Spartan Bomber. It would be a great design for use with one of the new compressed air motors. The tank should slide right inside the fuselage. And speaking of compressed air motors,


there was a very successful compressed air competition at the Isaacson Winter Classic contest at Lost Hills in early February. One of the compressed air models was an F4U Corsair. Ole Hog Nose (one nickname for the Corsair) swallows that compressed air


by mike myers You can reach Mike Myersat 911 Kilmary Lane, Glendale, CA 91207, or via e-mail at mikemyersgln@charter.net


PHOTO: AL PARDUE


Mike Moskow with his rubber powered Streak (at left). It’s either a very large Class D ship or a small Class E ship. The class dividing line was 300 square inches in wing area. Here’s a Raykit (above ), probably from the early ’50s, that promised “rocket powered” freeflight using those CO2 cartridges.


36 MAY 2012


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