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Larry Kruse, with one of his favorite freeflights, the Hustler. After a 30+ year stint as the F/F Sport columnist, he’s relinquished his post.


Thankfully, we’ll still have him around, continuing to contribute but in newer direc- tions. The R/C bug has bitten him and he’s been pretty busy whipping up a fleet of planes to occupy his retirement time. And he’s spending some time on the road, going to some great events throughout the South- west and sharing his travels with us. There are people of whom it’s said that they are a hard act to follow. That certainly is the case with Larry. Just hope he man- ages to share a lot more with us through the coming years.


A varied issue


Take a quick look at the opposite page and you’ll note there’s a pretty wide diversity


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ransition. That’s the way Larry Kruse chose to tell you that he has relinquished the helm of his F/F Sport column this month, some- thing he first started in September 1981. By the time I arrived at FMin November 1982, Larry had already contributed not only his columns but a solid ten years worth of designs in the magazine, almost all of them his passion, freeflight.


Eventually he took over the column full time in the early 1990s after alternating with other F/F luminaries like Don Srull, Dave Rees, Gene Sellers, Don Ross, and Dave Linstrum. Not only did he anchor the column but continued to contribute up to 44 designs at last count. Most of them ran the gamut of freeflight: compressed air, scale,


CO2, glider, F/F gas, profile... Listing them all would easily reveal an impressive model- ing tour de force.


Those are the bare facts. What’s so much harder to relate is the wonderful quality of all the material Larry has sent over the past 40 years that he’s been involved with FM. It’s far too easy for me to say he’s been one of the absolute favorites in the wonderful group of FMcolumnists because his materi- al is almost flawless, and very enjoyable


among the articles we present this month. And I suspect you’ll find all of them interest- ing for that same reason, a wide diversity. Not too much space left to tell you about them, so let’s quickly start with Dick Sarpo- lus’s Baka Bomb for R/C. Yes, it was a real plane and quite different. Dick, in his usual acquaintance with a wide variety of inter- esting scale subjects, chose this one as a sim- ple profile for e-power.


You’ll like it because it does fly so well and it won’t take long to get it in the air. It’s just another of Dick’s ongoing list of very neat, flyable planes.


Thanks to the fertile imagination and de- sign ability of Mark Freeland we have the Sinbad the Sailor review that Jim Wiggin offers us. The designs that Mark has resur- rected or created in the past few years have been imaginative, like the Sinbad. As the name of his company implies the models he presents have that “retro” look as Jim re- lates. There’s a powerful swell for nostalgia in the hobby and Mark has certainly tied into it very well.


Just to prove the point I made earlier that Larry Kruse has branched out in new direc- tions I cite his review of the Flyzone Calyp- so, a glider for R/C. As Larry tells us, this re- cent offering was designed to get you into the air quickly. Unique to this powered glid- er is the single large landing gear in the fuselage that will allow smooth landings on a grass field.


Two months ago I presented the review of the new Spektrum DX18 radio. Eighteen channels alone were enough to make this relatively economical radio a great choice. But I also mentioned the inclusion of a unique feature, the Sequencer function that offered the versatility of not only mixing functions but programming those functions to operate within time factors.


By itself that powerful feature of the DX18 could warrant an article in itself but the space for the overall review didn’t allow much more than a brief description. Now, thanks to Stephane Marleau’s fascination and experimentation with the Sequencer, we have a far more in-depth explanation of this great feature.


Many of the small indoor R/C planes that are becoming more popular end up as vic- tims of the wind. E-flite’s AS3X technology has compensated for that, and Daniel Wal- ton’s review of the UMX Sbach 342 is more than just a review. It’s a pretty comprehen- sive look at this technology and its origins. It’s fascinating reading.


Sal Taibi was one of the greats in the Old Time movement with so many successful de- signs to his credit. His club, the SCAMPS, organized a tribute to his legacy with the Sal Taibi Memorial at Perris Field. Roger Willis and Clint Brooks were there to report it. Not much space left but I still have to men- tion Eric Boehm’s encounter with the Heli- Max 1SQ. He’s a confirmed balsa basher but found that he was pretty intrigued with this little quad copter. –FRANK FANELLI


MARCH 2013


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