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met Brian Malin of BMJR Models at the 2012 Vintage Stunt Champion - ships in Tucson. His company has been in existence for 16 years as of the sum-


mer of 2012. Brian normally features freeflight models, since his main interest has been in that field. Bob Whitney intro- duced me to Brian during a dinner at Daisy Mae’s Steak House in southeast Tucson. I had been perusing his 24-page catalog and found some very interesting items to pur- chase and build. Page 15 features control line models, and


they include the International Stunt Champ designed by Lloyd Curtis as pub- lished in the March 1953 issue of Air Trails (kit B-251). BMJR’s Profile Nobler is based upon George Aldrich’s model from the 1952 May & June issues of Model Airplane News (kit B-252). Harold Reinhardt’s Stunt Wing is a third kit in the catalog, and the origi- nal model was printed in the March 1955 issue of Model Airplane News (kit B-253). Hi Johnson’s Stuka and Bill Skipper’s AKRO-BAT are on Brian’s board and in the computer but not available for sale at this point. They will be when the projects are complete. My main interest is the Stunt Wing. I


owned one for about four years, and I was really impressed with the flying ability of the model. I had an L&J Fox .35 in it for power. I flew it in front of about six guys at an early 2000 Brodak Fly In, and they too were excited about the flight characteristics. I flew it in several contests and managed to place in the top three. The Stunt Wing has a span of 47.5 inches and contains 596 square inches of wing area. Contact Brian Malin at BMJR Models, Inc., P.O. Box 1210, Sharpes, FL 32959-1210. You can also go to his website at www.bmjrmodels.com , or call at 1-321-537-1159.


by allen brickhaus You can reach Allen Brickhausat PO Box 206, Golconda, Illinois 62938, or via e-mail at abkb801@shawneelink.net


PHOTOGRAPHY: ALLEN BRICKHAUS


Bob Whitney and Brian Malin of Florida exhibit BMJR’s new Harold Reinhardt designed Stunt Wing. This wing type Stunt model was published in Model Airplane Newsin March of 1955. Text has more information.


Don Ogren’s 1957 Zero Here’s what Don relates about his Zero: “During the mid-1950s, the Indianapolis group of Stunt fliers were in search of dif- ferent planes to compete with at contests. Charles Lickliter bought one of Rolland Mc- Donald’s Strathmores, had disassembled it, drew up plans, and built a copy. This pro- duced a model better than his group had ever flown before. He gave his Stunt flier friends the plans, and we all built copies of Rolland’s I-beam wing plane. Charles Mack- ey was the lone one, as I recall, that didn’t build a copy. “Charles Mackey, to my knowledge, never did build an I-beam wing plane, but Mackey


did a lot of designing and building, always coming up with good flying models. A couple of his warbirds included the Bf 109 and a Spitfire. That got me to thinking about con- structing a warbird. So, not wanting to du- plicate or to copy Charles’ planes, I took a hard look at the lines of the Japanese Zero and decided to give it a go. After building two I-beam Detroiters, as I now called the design, I got to work on Zero #1. In the late times of 1959, I kept all the important di- mensions (span, area moments), the I-beam wing concept of the Detroiter, and finished my first Zero. College and moving about didn’t leave time for much Stunt after 1962, and the Zero


Allen also owned a Harold Reinhardt Stunt Wing (above left) for about four years, and was impressed with its flying characteristics. He showed it off at the Brodak Fly-In one year, and some participants were impressed. Mike Scott of


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Hillsboro, Texas builds very nice control line handles (above right) which were originally designed by Dick Byron. The details for purchasing one or more handles from Mike are presented in the column.


OCTOBER 2012


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