Radio Control: Old-Timers
ONE MORE TIME! To join, rejoin, or renew your membership in the Society of Antique Modelers (SAM), send $10 to S.A.M., 4269 Sayoko Circle, San Jose, CA 95136. An exception. When is a model SAM-legal, even though it was not "designed, kitted, or plans published prior to December 31, 1942?" When its an Old Ruler. Though the event has never really caught on, some rather exciting possibilities exist for models to be developed to meet the requirements of this event.
4-40
PLEASE DO NOT glance at this construction article and just mentally write it off as just another lightweight sport trainer! The 4-40 is comfortable with sustained inverted flight, consecutive outside loops, vertical eights, and all the more usual aerobatics. Its looks are deceiving! Our design objective was to develop a model to best utilize the potentials in four-cycle power plants. These remarkable engines produce outstanding pulling power rather than high speeds. For that reason we felt that a relatively low wing loading and generous moments would produce outstanding flight qualities. Fortunately, we were right on target. Models of this design have been a pure delight.
Radio Control: Old-Timers
WE'VE MOVED. Please note the new address at the end of this column. Our correspondence stack is in a bit of a mess. If we owe you a letter, either be patient or send us another! Pylon Buster. This month's Old-Timer represents an enigma. Although it was published in Mechanix Illustrated after WW II and the plans show a postwar Atwood JH powerplant, the Pylon Buster is an authenticated Old-Timer! Ramon Vasquez designed and built the model before December 31, 1942, but it was not published until after the war.
Radio Control: Old-Timers
AND NOW, the Ontario Commando. This month, we feature still another "sleeper." Seldom seen in competition, the design has (in our opinion) very excellent potential as an A-Cabin Free Flight or A Glow or Ignition RC Assist. Kitted by Ontario Model Aircraft of Toronto Canada, the Commando was advertised in the September 1942 issue of Air Trails magazine. That's about as close to the SAM cutoff date of December 1942 as one can get. A three-view drawing was also shown on the same page with Gordon S. Light's "Dope Can" column. Aerodynamically, the wing and stab airfoils-as well as the moments-strongly suggest a reduced-size Buzzard Bombshell. However, the outlines and construction show a touch of Berkeley Brigadeer.
Radio Control: Old-Timers
THE LATEST "sleeper." I've looked at the ads for the New Cyclone Aircraft Lancer many, many times and have always instinctively dismissed it as just "another pretty face." Nothing in those old ads would indicate that this design is anything more than another sport model (although certainly an attractive one), though hardly competitive with such other greats as the Dallaire or Lanzo, so I never bothered ordering either Plan No. 7F4 (49-in. wingspan) or 7F5 (72-in. wingspan) from John Pond Plans. Well, folks, Eut Tileston (Carmichael, CA) is smarter than most of us! Eut has been eating up the competition with a whole series of Lancers! Ranging in size from an Elfin 2.5cc diesel-powered mite in Class A up to the .90 four-stroke-powered ship shown in the photo.
