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uess the best place to start this month is with the “oops” confes- sions. Not just one but two. So for the record here goes.
Back in the October 2012 Left Seat col- umn I declared my opinion that semi-sym- metrical airfoils are really great for training planes. It’s a viewpoint I still I hold from my own experience. While doing so I pointed out that the venerable Goldberg Falcons, Senior and 56, had flat bottom airfoils. Nope! Wrong! Definitely not. That was pointed out to me by Dave Surry and Alan Shukle in e-mails they sent. Can’t really ex- cuse myself because I didn’t take time to check the facts, something I should have done since I even mentioned that I never had a Falcon, even though I managed to fly a friend’s Senior Falcon. Didn’t pay close enough attention.
And now for the second “sordid”, more re- cent goof. Last month’s issue carried the sto- ry of NEAT 2012, a most enjoyable event. A lot of neat planes, a lot of flying and some spectacular aerobatic demonstrations. Dan Landis and Devin McGrath easily and justi- fiably rank in that category of outstanding world class aerobatic pilots.
Seems we mixed up the captions for their respective planes on pages 21 and 25. On page 21 we said it was Dan Landis with his MX 2. Nope, it was Devin with his Extra 300. And on page 25 we said it was Devin with his Extra 300. Another nope. It was Dan with his Extreme Flight MX2. The one thing we got absolutely right is their outstanding ability with these planes. So I guess all my years of Latin study finally come in handy. I can tell you in Latin that it was my fault: mea culpa, mea maxima culpa! Can’t say it was by design, but it just seemed to be a convergence of circumstance. We had Greg Cardillo’s article on The Mid- west Float Fly, Laddie Mikulasko’s Flyer’s Dream, and my article on the Flyzone Beaver with optional floats. Why not mix ’em together and have a sort of float flying theme issue? As Hannibal Smith of that great TV series, the A-Team, often declared: “I love it when a plan comes together.” Greg has been involved with the Midwest
Float Fly for quite a while and has seen it grow into one of the largest aquatic R/C events in the country. Stands to good rea- son. Michigan has plenty of lakes. Seems only natural.
And once more Greg demonstrates that adage “above and beyond the call of duty”. He spent part of the event waist deep in wa- ter photographing some of the planes. Now that is a boast few can make.
What’s even better is that Greg has proved his great photographic skills over and over. Not just in this article but in all the others he submitted or helped with, chief among them his assistance with the photography at the 2012 NEAT Fair. Then there’s Laddie Mikulasko’s Flyer’s
Dream. You can always count on him to present us with not only really interesting
aircraft, but with great flying ones. Case in point, the venerable Northstar that has be- come an icon of R/C models. You’ll find it in all sizes and even set up with landing gear for operations off of terra firma. But that’s a digression to point out the quality of the Flyer’s Dream. And no it isn’t a fantasy model. It is a scale aircraft, mod- eled after the plane from the imaginative mind of Dewey Eldred. What’s more, Lad- die has ironed out all the flying kinks of the plane so you’ll be ready to fly it with confidence.
You’ll note that the construction pictures show a model built from foam, and that’s how Laddie’s plane was made. In an effort to encourage you to build the plane, espe- cially if you aren’t too thrilled with foam construction, he drew the plans for a balsa model of the plane. Build this one and I can guarantee you’ll be the talk of the lake. With a little extra imagination, add some wheels to the floats and you might also be the talk of the field with this one. So now there’s the Flyzone Beaver. That plane has always fascinated me and I could- n’t resist trying this one. Interchangeable floats and gear? That’s the best of two worlds. While I never got a chance to fly the float version, Dan Landis showed how easy it was with a private demo of the Beaver on floats at the NEAT Fair. I flew it on wheels from a semi-frozen field, sorta the quintes- sential Beaver millieu, and it was a very en- joyable, low key experience.
The model offered a chance to try out the Tactic AnyLink module. If you’re not famil- iar with it, this add-on to any brand trans- mitter lets you fly the Tx-R ready planes like the Beaver with your own preferred trans- mitter. As part of the Beaver article, there’s a side bar that documents what this is all about. Opens up a lot of extra opportunity. By now you know that Chuck Felton likes to build cardboard airplanes. Matter of fact I don’t know if he ever built any balsa planes. Have to ask him.
Maybe cardboard planes don’t thrill you, but the planes Chuck chooses to model are some very beautiful aircraft. This time around he chose another Italian beauty, the Ambrosini 207. Somehow the aesthetic of these Italian aircraft lend themselves well to the unique construction characteristics of cardboard. And of course, there’s the econo- my involved as well.
While it is a C/L scale plane, with a glow engine for power, there’s no reason why it couldn’t be converted to electric. That would save the plane from the possibility of becom- ing soaked in oil residue or glow fuel. So here’s a challenge for Chuck. Maybe his next ship might be electric.
Space is dwindling so I better wrap things up with some words about Bill Warner’s Poly-Wog. He’s been an ardent proponent of youth education in aviation and the little Poly-Wog is a graduation from ultra simple to something with more pizzazz for any bud- ding modeler. –FRANK FANELLI
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