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Any help or suggestions? I’m not sure who to address this to as you don’t seem to have an engine department anymore. I hope someone can help me find a needle valve for my Irvine .40 engine. I broke the needle in a crash and want to use the engine again.
The Zero-types were more effective in getting through, but the explosions were usually on the flight deck. The plane would- n’t normally penetrate and explode in the hangar deck, which was more effective.
HOWELL GWIN, JR. via e-mail
A smaller belt size As I grow older I appreciate FLYING MOD-
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This engine is the best! Brute power, smooth throttle response, one flip starting. I got it at a swap meet many years ago and the previous owner had altered the screws that retain the carburetor so I can’t just re- place that whole unit.
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Regarding the Kamikaze in the new issue [March 2013], the Americans called them “baka bombs”, which means “foolish”. When I was a kid in Macon, Georgia, (1946 or so) they had one at the County Fair. Even then, I could barely fit in it. Since the Bettys were so slow when carrying it, they were usually shot down far from the US ships.
ELS magazine more and more. As a rubber scale freeflight guy, I’ve appreciated the great designs and inspiration you’ve pre- sented. At 84 years of age, arthritic issues and macular degeneration have seriously cut into my building and flying activities. I have been forced to curtail chasing freeflight rubber jobs that became more and more dif- ficult to see. I went back to small field R/C but the inability to focus made each flight an adventure.
Then it happened! Rivets failed and the buckle fell off my belt. In selecting a new belt, I was disturbed to find that I needed a size 40, a new high for me! Then along came the February issue of FLYING MODELS with Bill Warner’s Poly Wog. By using a magnify- ing glass to get through critical stages, I put the little bird together. A short loop of rub- ber and a larger prop along with limiting hand winds to 500 turns, the model consis- tently circles left for flights of several hun- dred feet.
I fly in a fairgrounds parking lot with a number of my R/C buddies, several of whom wear larger belt sizes, too. A couple of them have joined me in flying my de- lightful Poly Wog and retrieving her after each flight, working on reducing that belt size. Hats off to FLYING MODELS and old friend Bill Warner, not only for helping kids get into our wonderful hobby, but for helping some of us seniors get back into a smaller belt size.
TOM NALLEN via e-mail
MAY 2013
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