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More interesting than usual I just wanted to drop a short note to tell
you how much I enjoyed two recent con- struction articles: “Flying Ohm” by Roy De- Camara (May 2012) and “Baby Biwinger” by Daniel Walton (July 2012). Both were not the normal “tab A into slot
B” type of build articles. The back-stories they gave about their personal involvement with the models made them more interest- ing than is typical. Thanks again; keep up the great work for
those of us that still find building half the fun. ROB SWIDER via e-mail
More super flyers, please Many thanks for the plan and article for the
Baby Biwinger. It’s one of my favorite models. A friend in England, Tom Crompton, told
me about it and I went looking for a plan. A few months later I found the magazine at a swap meet. I started the model that same weekend and a week later was flying it. Tom had powered his with a Humbrol
CO2. I used a Shark CO2 and light wood, medium 1⁄20 sheet. It has a fantastic climb; wasn’t long till a light thermal took it away. I started building another the next day. I
have built it in various sizes and different power, but the original size and CO2 is my favorite. I have a double size almost ready for small diesel power. Thanks for publishing this great model.
It’s a super flyer and fun to build. More like this please.
JAY HICKS Wildwood, FL The Baby Biwinger does seem to have a mag-
ic quality to it. Years ago when some of the lo- cal clubs would have static displays at the malls I would usually bring one of my more so- phisticated R/C flying wings or R/C old timers and would also pack along the Biwinger. It took up almost no room, was colorful, sturdy, had that jewel-like Cox TD .010 on the front and provided an interesting contrast to all the other very advanced models that always showed up for the display.
lost its touch.
During these displays I noticed a curious phenomenon. While crowds would usually look quietly at all the models, the little Baby Bi- winger was “approachable”, often generating the most questions and drew especially large clusters of 4- to 12-year-old children asking questions and exhibiting a keen identification with the model. They just couldn’t keep their hands off of it. It seemed that the Biwinger was perceived (rather enthusiastically) by this age group demographic as something that was both interesting and completely within their abili- ties, rather than the “pinnacle of technique” ex- hibited by most of the other models. In other words it had a very high “I can do that!” score. It would seem the Baby Biwinger has not –DANIELWALTON
Now you’ll know This is a reply to a letter from Harry Schroeter, Sarasota, FL, in the June issue Air Mail, titled “What were those things”. The Spitfire, like most aircraft of the era,
were constantly modified to which end the Spitfire had five wing types available by the war’s end, Type “A” through to “E”. Type “A”' was the original wing designed
for eight .303-inch Browning machine guns. Type “B” was an “A” type modified to carry 20mm Hispano cannon. Type “C” was a uni- versal wing to take a mixture of machine gun and cannon. Type “D” was the photo re- con wing where the leading edge was modi- fied to act as an extra fuel tank for longer range. These had no armaments. Type “E” was a modified “C” type to carry two 20mm Hispano cannon and two 0.5-inch Browning machine guns, firing through the outboard cannon ports. The armaments depended on the task at
hand, Low or High altitude, ground attack, chasing V1’s, etc. and not all the gun ports were required, so in the case where only two of the four 20mm cannon were fitted, the un- used cannon ports were covered with an “Aerodynamic fairing”. This is your “round nosed fairing”. Hope this helps.
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