Dornier Falke
The Dornier Falke, a 1922 Swiss fighter, featured innovative design with an all-metal structure. Only two were built, marking a significant aviation advancement.
Cooper-Travers Hawk
DEDICATED SCALE enthusiasts often go to great lengths to find obscure full-scale
aircraft to model. They delight in finding something that few fliers have ever heard of,
much less modeled. They spend hours in libraries or on the Internet looking for that
obscure subject that will be the envy of their peers.
Free Flight: Duration
CHEAP THRILLS: I can remember when I was just a kid and got plenty of cheap thrills flying Jim Walkers' innovative and great-flying catapult-launch Gliders. Modeled after the Lockheed Shooting Star (an early Air Force jet), they came with a clever folding mechanism for the wing root and a catapult stick. You can now get them again by mail order-and the thrills are just as great. One of the photos shows your author with a big grin, getting ready to launch his A.J. Interceptor into a San Diego thermal. There is no thrill like seeing your model shoot into the blue, then see the wing flop open and the model begin circling like a hawk. The Interceptor is available ready to fly for only $6.95, or in a U-Build kit for $4.95. Add $3 postage/handling for first three models. To find your thrill, fly one on Blueberry Hill after ordering from American Junior Aircraft Co., Box 68132, Portland, OR 97268.
Free Flight: Duration
WHEN I agreed to do this filler column on request from MA's publisher, I was reminded of the main reason why I packed up all my Outdoor Free Flight models (except P-30 and Pee Wee 30, which are both small-field events) almost a decade ago. I have not given up Free Flight, of course-merely continued to enjoy it indoors, flying with the infamous MIAMA club (Miami Indoor Aircraft Model Association). I now fly all the Rubber, Glider, and Power (CO2 and Electric) Free Flight models that I can stuff in my car-but I do it indoors.
Free Flight: Duration
THE POEM was published in Round 3 of the Fly-off newsletter edited by Bob Hatschek. I wanted to bring it to you here because it evokes so much of what we are about in Free Flight. If you want more technical and down-to-earth stuff, Bob has that, too, in each issue of Flyoff. For your subscription, U.S. residents should send $10 for five issues ($15 foreign address, U.S. Funds) to Bob Hatschek, Editor, Flyoff, 316 Grosvenor St., Douglaston, NY 11363. Any contributions you have of plans, technical data, details, and photos are also welcome.
