Flying for Fun - 2005/06

BECAUSE OF THE deadlines associated
mostly with the length of time required to
prepare an issue’s text, photos, and ads for
the printer, I actually wrote last month’s
column in January 2005. I was aware of
Hal deBolt’s serious medical problems at
that time, but I did not anticipate his demise
before the column was printed.
I mention this since it looks as if I might
have been unaware of Hal’s passing when I
wrote the column and to point out the sad
coincidence. I did not intend the May
column to be a short tribute; it just worked
out that way.

Flying for Fun-2004/11

IN THE MID-1930s, RC models became the basis for the Army Air
Corps’ development of aerial targets for antiaircraft gunnery training.
Starting in 1935, Radioplane of California developed several variations
of movie star and modeler Reginald Denny’s original designs.

Flying for Fun-2004/12

IN THE LAST column I waxed
enthusiastic at considerable length about
3-D miniature electric-powered foamies.
In the interim I have begun flying mine in
a vacant lot across the street from my
home. This site is approximately half the
size of a football field, with trees on either
end. It is surrounded on three sides by
town houses

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