Dave Garwood appropriately jazzed up his T-14 (above) with F-14 Tomcat graphics. Phenomenal is a paltry term to describe the roll rate of Alan Mostek’s 12-inch span Wicked Wing from Radical RC (at right, above). Rob Kallok designed and built his Weekender (at right, below) for two E-flite Power 32s. The all-wood plane has flaps and an operating rear cargo door. With all 150 LEDs brightly glowing Gary Swift II’s Polaris(below) is easy to see and fly at night. He also flew off water in the day time.
used traditional materials in the construc- tion of this twin electric, balsa, spruce, and ply. It’s not a big plane but does incorporate flaps, along with a functioning cargo door on a sixth channel.
Eric’s 717 was more contemporary. It uses all-foam construction and as he describes it, its fuselage is a tube consisting of a series of rings sandwiched together. The nose and the tail are milled on a CNC machine since he designed it utilizing a CAD application. This is a “true” jet, using twin 55mm ducted fans.
In the early years of NEAT a good number of planes were scratchbuilt. That isn’t the case any more, except when it comes to the indoor group that goes off field to Downsville, NY one afternoon and evening to fly in the Downsville HS gym. Joe Malinchak has run this event the past few years and it has gen- erated a small but very talented and enthusi- astic group, many who are the leaders in this field. There were plenty of very interesting
FLYING MODELS
aircraft and use of the micro electronic tech- nology available today.
Joe, of course, likes small stuff and just to demonstrate that he flew three of his MiG- 15s, one at 1⁄48 scale, another at 1⁄72 scale (5.5- inch span), and the third at something smaller than 1⁄72, maybe around 1⁄100 scale (4.4-inch span). They may not be very scale but they are recognizable as MiGs, and they are ducted fans as well. Some of them fly with commercially available small fans but in one case, Joe is working on an extremely small fan for the 1⁄72 MiG that will have a molded shroud and a 6mm motor. These are by no means hangar queens because they all fly quite well, though the smallest one now only gets about a 20-second flight time. It’s also important to mention that Joe’s wife, Cindy, is a designer in her own right. Af- ter a few years of effort she debuted her two ButterFlights. One at 7-inch span, the other at 8. They are scale flying models of a Monarch butterflies, and using graphic software, she
designed the wings true to scale outline and coloration. They look great in flight. And in the same ultra-micro vein there’s Nick Leichty, long time micro proponent and electronics designer. His tiny Room Flyer is a 3-channel ultra micro that weighs .75 gram but can put in a 15- minute flight. His Mini Aerobat is larger, but still micro and is a full 4-channel ship set up for 3D. It weighs 12 grams but its Gasparin motor gives it 25 grams of thrust. Think it has enough verti- cal with that power? Gordon Johnson is a leader in the cartoon scale planes that sorta resemble a real plane, but have flying surfaces that are outsized and out of scale with increased wing chord, some- thing like his WW I Fokker Triplane, to en- able them to fly very slowly indoors. The small Micro Triton seaplane that Bob Selman brought and sells from his company, BSDMicro, was designed by Ken Spencer, a longtime advocate of micro R/C. It’s con- structed of folded Depron® foam, and weighs
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