BabyBiwinger
Build this classic bipe as a .020 freeflight or as a modern micro R/C!
By Daniel Walton PHOTOGRAPHY: DANIEL WALTON T 36
here are times in your life when it just seems that destiny calls. In my case the first couple of gas powered models were Wen Mac Control Line
plastic models that, while they may have performed well in more expert hands, were not to be for me. Later, my brother, Matthew, and I were given Competition Models XB-70 kits and Pee Wee .020 en- gines to power them with. Suddenly we were off and flying with something that was ex- otic, easily repaired and flew after a fashion. We were hooked. We then went through the usual run of available kits and slowly progressed up the
learning curve. Early in high school I was to obtain what would be my second really suc- cessful (for me) model airplane engine, a Cox Tee Dee .010. I soon found the engine to be reliable, powerful, and allowed a string of quickly completed freeflight models. They were very small so the pint of Cox glow fuel obtained at the local hobby shop would also last all summer. I was set. Many hours of happy modeling ensued
and I was able to sharpen my design/engi- neering skills using the .010 for all kinds of experiments. We also flew the Pee Wee .020s and Babe .049s on various projects, in- cluding several Veco/Dumas Dakota biplane
kits originally designed by Joe Wagner. But my Tee Dee .010 was my personal favorite during this period. After completing college and obtaining my
first real employment as an engineer, I was also able to start expanding my library. In Thousand Oaks there was an aviation book store specializing in new and used books where I soon began making regular trips. One Saturday I was going through some of the old model airplane magazines they had in stock when I came across the April 1952 issue of Air Trails. There on pages 40 and 41 was something that looked very familiar and yet was totally different.
JULY 2012
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