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f you take a quick look across to the other page, you’ll notice that Don Ross’s column, Cross Files, is missing. Don is okay and he’ll be back next
month. He just asked for a breather while he moves into his new home in Massachusetts. So if you try contacting him and don’t re- ceive a reply right away it’s because he’s still getting set up. He’ll be back next month. Probably any one of us has a great story
to tell about how we got involved in this wonderful hobby. In so many instances it was a single person or group of people that cemented a life-long affair with model air- planes.
Whether it has been thoroughly absorbing
or just merely comfortable, the roots of that association never fade. They are indelibly engrained in the happiest part of memory. And so it was with Roy DeCamara. He’s
the one who presents the Flying Ohm this month as a tribute to the one person who got him hooked on the hobby, Ray Morgan. And it was Ray who designed the Flying Ohm back in the 1950s infancy of radio control. As Roy recounts, Ray not only designed it
but also kitted the Flying Ohm and it be- came somewhat popular in the northern California/southern Oregon area. It was never published and obviously didn’t make any kind of dent nationally in modelling. Roy’s story is engrossing by itself, but
some of the people he met while Ray men- tored him became the pillars of later radio control: Deans, Bonner, Brodbeck, Nelson, and others. Quite august company for a young teenage modeler. You’ll enjoy Roy’s personal story and I
guess that background led him to one of his current modeling passions, C/L Stunt. As I write this he is getting ready for the great Vintage Stunt Championships in Tucson, AZ. And he is no slouch there, winning sev- eral first places. As he is only too willing to admit, Ray taught him well. If you got pilot training for full-size air-
craft any time between 1970 and the present it’s pretty likely that you got started in a Cessna 150. It’s not a glamorous plane, but it was a workhorse. Mainly used as a train- er, it also served as a commuter or courier plane delivering people to places quicker than they could get to by car. When I managed Greenwood Lake Air-
port in West Milford, NJ, we had two. Even when the bottom fell out of general aviation in the early 1980s, both planes kept busy as trainers or rentals. Their climb rate could be—shall we say—sedentary. Many was the summer afternoon I would watch with fin- gers crossed as the school 150 would ever so gradually ease into the air with hefty in- structor and student aboard. So, when E-flite announced their new e- powered Cessna 150 Aerobat 250, I knew it was a way to rekindle my association with Cessna’s 2-seater. E-flite chose the trim scheme for their little Cessna patterned af- ter the Cessna 150 Aerobat that David Payne’s grandfather owned and flew when
David was a very young boy. David is the model designer who has been responsible for many of Horizon Hobby’s good designs. And yes, besides the standard 150, Cess-
na also had two other models of the plane, the Commuter (with long range tanks) and the Aerobat (an aerobatic trainer with a strengthened tail for aerobatics). I can attest that the little E-flite is as rugged, and survived unitentional upsets just as the real plane did. First flight was a very gusty winter afternoon that really test- ed the lightweight model’s ability to fight back against the wind. It won with flying colors and subsequent flights proved this lit- tle electric lives up to the storied legacy cre- ated by its full-size cousin. And keeping with small lightweight mod-
els, let’s turn to Jim Wiggin’s review of a very neat aircraft that incorporates a boat- load of technology in what appears to be a mild-mannered unassuming little model. I’m talking about the new Great Planes F- 86 Sabre electric ducted fan. Let’s cut to the chase. As Jim relates, this
little plane flies just fine, and maybe more than that. Like the Cessna the Sabre was flown in some gusty wind and despite being much smaller and lighter than the Cessna it still handled the wind pretty good. As Jim will go on to tell you, the little elec-
tric ducted fan provided plenty of push for the F-86. But it was the combination of the Tx-R re-
ceiver in the model and the Any-Link trans- mitter module that is the really big news about the plane. In short, any model equipped with a Tx-R receiver can be flown by any brand transmitter that utilizes the Any-Link module. Futaba, Tactic, Hitec, JR, Spektrum—
they’ll all work with the Tx-R equipped mod- els when the Any Link is plugged in. That means, as Jim says, you now can have all the radio features you want when you want them.
Modern materials have offered an alter-
native to the labor intensive and lengthy process of older coverings like silk. Granted, nothing can match the aura of a good silk finish but even builders of homebuilt full- size aircraft have succumbed to not only the ease, but also the better durability of syn- thetic materials. So Russell Ross, anFMnewcomer, has of-
fered us his insight about using lightweight Ceconite to cover a model. Heavier versions cover full-size aircraft but the lighter stuff offers the versatility of heat shrinking, as well as the appearance of a true fabric cov- ering. Look this article over carefully. Finally we come to Chuck Felton, one of
our more prolific authors these days. You know him as the guru of cardboard C/L scale planes. Now cardboard may not be your pre- ferred building material but lately, some of the planes Chuck has shared with us have been pretty scale and unique to boot. So take the time to look over his L-19 Bird Dog. You just may try it. –FRANK FANELLI
MAY 2012
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