Tileston Sylph

https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=12983

 

Gross Flying Wing

https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=12976

 

1/2A Texaco version
https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=12989

Another Great SAM competitor passes

When people would say he was old as dirt, he would blush and say: No, but when I was born dirt was still pretty new.  As a modeler, he was one of a kind.  He wore a T-shirt that read: I'd rather eat worms than fly a Lanzo Bomber!  He was always drawn to the most unorthodox looking models whether they be V-tailed, tailless or even canards.   He was probably best known for Bunch Scorpions and Lancers and he had one approved design:  the Sylph.    At a minimum, the model had to look like it could carry a pilot and to that end, he had scale Taylorcrafts that could give a hot Playboy a run for the money. He never showed up with a pylon model or a polyhedral wing.

He was a perennial thorn in the side to some CDs because he could identify and exploit loopholes like no one else.  Case in point, early on he realized that A-Texaco, with its 15 minute max, was little more than an engine running contest.  So, he set about making a mockery of the event with a Cox .010 powered Rasssitoodus that could putter around in ground effect and then glide like clump of sod after maxing.

I visited him twice at his home in Carmichael.   The whole house was a model shop except for one room.  His disabled late wife had predeceased him by many years and her room was kept as she left it.

http://www.antiquemodeler.org/sam_new/aboutsam/assets_hof_docs/1999-Eut_Tileston-done/Eut%20Tileston%202001%20bio.pdf

Model airplane contest at Wagell Field

SAM contest at the Schmidt Ranch

Photos by Eut

A short flight over Jesuit High School checking on the construction there.

 

Eut Tileston

(SAM Hall of Fame)

The real Westerner.

Drones in all sizes

I am sure you all, by now, have concluded that the drone on stage looks familiar.

Luther Peters at the 2011 Southwest Regionals Eloy, AZ

Photo by Eut Tileston

Appears to be a 1/2A Texaco Boehle Giant.

Miss Model Craftsman II

A rarely seen model, the Miss Model Craftsman II as it appeared in a recent Thermaleer Newsletter from SAM 600.

Somewhat reminiscent of the Lancer series popularized by Eut Tileston.

Sylph

Grosswing

Post war version of the Gross Flying Wing

Rickard Flying Wing

Twin Engine Experimental

Here is the Sadler/Thomas Twin.
I flew it in the SAM Champs in Colorado. Class C ign. LER, two Elfins .15 one Burford and the other a Targos.   The original had a Dennymite in front and a Brown pushing.

Eut Tileston

Eut and his Corsairs

baby Corsair

I don't believe there is a better performing cabin model, one beat a Bomber in a fly-off and the bomber was flown by a SAM Champion  ~Eut Tileston 

The wine colored one is the Alpha Corsair, plans show a Brown Jr for power. the one in the picture is powered with an Ohlsson 60. The white/yellow one is a Baby Corsair, plans showed a Bantam .19. The green one is a scaled down one to 450 sq in. for the old Ohlsson 23 event.

Gerald Martin's Ohlsson 60 powered Corsair takes off at Eloy, AZ (I built this one)

Here is a picture of my first gas model, Brown Jr. powered. Well not really my first, the first was Flying Quaker, but it was owned jointly with my twin brother (Don).

1/2A Stabiloplan

From the fertile building board of Eut Tileston comes this Stabiloplan for 1/2A Scale.

Carstens has their own plan.

It looked like it would be OK but I only had full span elevons (no rudder) and I lost control on the first flight. I may repair it sometime and add a rudder.

 Eut 

SAM Hall of Fame

http://www.aereomodellistiagello.it/franz/pagine/franz-4.htm

A tribute to Eut Tileston by Tandy Walker