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p in the front office, behind Lynn Good’s desk is a small book shelf . It has all the back issues of FM that go back into the 1950s. It isn’t a complete collection, and the further back you go the more gaps in the issues. It’s a blast to look through those issues and find the stories of models that made hobby history. And it is model history on pa- rade. Stunters that evolved from no flaps to flaps, the progression to the Stunt pattern of Today. Stone Age R/C gear morphs through the years to proportional and servos and computers and now telemetry. Freeflight ships that were simple or complex outdoor competition planes to No-Cals to Peanuts to the spectacular scale ships of the Flying Aces Club.
Too bad deadlines pull me away from all that because it would be easy to get lost for an entire day as one article after another catches your eye and suddenly provides the answer to a question or curiosity from long ago. One of these days I’m going to ignore that monthly prison sentence deadline and just spend a morning, an afternoon.... maybe even a whole day thumbing through those great back issues.
That’s why this month we present another of our “Blast from the Past” series. It’s an ar- ticle from the August/September 1964 FM about the Apprentice that Bill Dunwoody de- signed to “walk” the rafters indoors. While it was fun poring over back issues and select- ing this one, a confession is in order. It does- n’t look exactly like the layout in 1964. Back then FMhad you wending through the mag- azine to follow the bits and pieces of the ar- ticle so we “streamlined” it in four contigu- ous pages and added the 1:1 centerfold plan for your convenience.
So enjoy a trip down memory lane, or if
the Apprentice was before your time, enjoy what a bit of modeling was like almost 50 years ago.
Speaking of modeling history, now would be a good time to tell you about Pat Tritle’s AJ 404 Interceptor. No it isn’t the folding wing catapult glider designed by the renowned Jim Walker. This is a “fattened” and enlarged version for 3-channel R/C. I can only imagine that Pat’s decision to de- sign it was based on the observation that if it flies real good small, then it will better than real good when it’s bigger. In this in- stance the maxim “big is beautiful” is true. One of the Interceptor’s hallmarks was the busy, colorful trim scheme that came print- ed on each model. Without it the Interceptor was too drab, so Pat, in his imaginative way, hooked up with Callie Graphics to provide a complete Interceptor graphics package that’s sized to fit Pat’s design. Can’t ask for more convenience than that.
Cardboard it ain’t. I’m talking about Chuck Felton’s Caravan that he shares with us this month. What... not cardboard?! Nope, it’s corrugated board, also called kraft paper or simply corrugated. It’s what we have incorrectly called cardboard, when re-
ferring to the stuff that shipping boxes have been made from for so long.
Chuck’s selection of Cessna’s workhorse turboprop single is a welcome choice. That plane seems to have been rarely modeled in any area of the hobby, F/F, R/C, or C/L. And as usual he’s worked his magic with the cor- rugated board to produce another great model. This is one that would go well either as C/L like Chuck designed it, or as R/C. Maybe that can be one of Chuck’s next ar- ticles, a conversion of his corrugated C/L ships to R/C. He does, by the way, also dab- ble in R/C in case you thought he was a purist, and yes, he uses corrugated for those as well.
His designs always piqued my curiosity about his predilection for corrugated so by pure coincidence I found a company, Suther- land Packaging close by, that creates and distributes all sorts of corrugated products for boxes and displays. Joe Sutherland, one of the four brothers involved with the com- pany, graciously answered a bunch of ques- tions and took me around the plant to show how these boxes were made and what sort of corrugated was used.
So, flush with all that information I thought a little bit of background about this very practical material might make a short, interesting article. It may even help nudge you toward finally trying cardboa.... I mean corrugated, as a model building material. Larry Kruse comes from Oklahoma, which for the past years has endured a se- vere drought. This year Larry happily re- ports that the rains came. That gave him an excuse to get Flyzone’s new Tidewater seaplane.
As he relates, the new model shares char-
acteristics of the seaplane designs created by the late FMEditor of years ago, Don Mc- Govern. Don created a whole genre of these models that generated quite a loyal follow- ing to this day. And as Larry also relates, the Tidewater proved thoroughly enjoyable. Last month Rob Caso gave us a good re- port on one of scale modeling’s premier events, Top Gun. It celebrated its 25th an- niversary and as part of the celebration, Top Gun founder, Frank Tiano, decreed that there would be a freeflight scale event. It was something that was an on and off unof- ficial thing through the years.
Well, a diverse group involved in Top Gun gathered Sunday morning for the mass launch to end all mass launches. Okay, there were only seven altogether. But if pure and absolute enjoyment were factored in it turned out to be a huge success, so much so that it might become an official annual event. Let Bob Curry tell you this great sto- ry on page 50.
Finally, a word about the little E-flite UMX MiG-15. It’s a great little plane and has received praise from lots of modelers. Though it’s small, it isn’t exactly an indoor plane, except for big indoor spaces. And with the AS3X technology in it, it proved to be a very nice flyer. –FRANK FANELLI
JULY 2013
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