From Canada

Tom: 

The plans for the Anderson and Diamond Zipper and the cowl are on the way.  Be very careful with the Zipper plans, they are very old, and a few people have used them. Carl Goldberg was a friend. Whenever I went through Chicago, if I didn't stop to see him, when he found out, I heard about it. When I asked him about the Zipper, and how John Pond called it Gas Bird, he had no Idea, how Pond came to call it that. Let me know when you get them; put my mind at rest. Sending some pictures of what were doing here. Hope you get them all, not too good with stuff. 

Chuck Schooley

1937 Lanzo R/C Stick

Lanzo Record Breaker

Taibi Powerhouse

Col. Bowdon's Comet. Circa 1934 or 1935.  I got a 3 view of it.  It was about 40 in. span 300 sq.,  0r so.  I scaled it up to 1260, for a Super Tigre 56, for antique class.  It also came as a cabin job.. same wing and stab. .Fus. and rudder different. I built both. Took the shoulder wing to Fort Wayne for a contest. They would not let me fly it, as you know antique has to weigh at least 5 lb. The plane only weighs 4 lb. Nice flying plane .  Chuck

Flying Circuits ~ Ft. Wayne, Indiana

 

Korff Professor

Shereshaw Champion

J'EN diesel powered Anderson Pylon

Arse breather

Glen Poole with this Winter's project

Glen with a new friend

Norm Poti's ST.29 Bomber

Professor climbs out

Midwest Camps for 2020

The 2020 SAM Champs has been cancelled. It was a difficult decision to make, but in the end, it looks like the best way forward. Our plans are to have the SAM Champs at the AMA site in 2021 in Muncie. The Midwest and Tennessee SAM groups were particularly disappointed with this year's decision for which the Covid-19 pandemic takes most of the blame. On a positive note, many SAM members have stepped up and offered to volunteer their assistance in 2021.

At the Fort Wayne contest this past June, the very active SAM 28 volunteered to host a Midwest SAM Champs Sept 9th and 10th at their beautiful flying site. In previous years, a Midwest Champs was made available to modelers unwilling to make the trek to Vegas. For many of us in this part of the county, this is a golden opportunity to replace the 2020 SAM Champs with a two day contest. Fort Wayne has a wonderful flying site and it is beautifully groomed. There is an asphalt runway and grass flying field. The club house is first class with plenty of room to eat lunch or catch up with old friends. There is also a campground as part of the property. With the campground and outdoor seating at the clubhouse we can mitigate our exposure to Covid-19 . While no one can predict the weather this far out, the dates chosen have historically been excellent; any later and things start to get foul around here. The Old Fort Flyers are very gracious hosts and would like to see as many of out of town flyers as possible come and participate. Flyers this past June experienced some minor inconveniences with respects to restaurants and lodging. We will be monitoring this situation between now and the contest date. The campgroup should remain unaffected.

Tom Boice

1/4 Scale Fairchild 24R by Jay Burkart

 I got the landing gear finished and she's up on wheels with  a functional suspension…

Next is to mount the wheel pants, as soon as I figure it out; to look scale…….

This sprung landing gear was hard to figure out and make it scale…Got to do a lot of streamline airfoil work all around it.

 

Jay Burkart 

Model Visibility

Some new tests in model visibility. 

Flying models at high altitudes in clear, blue, featureless skies presents many difficulties.  Contrasting colors and polarized glasses help, but no solution is perfect.  And, what works in the blue sky may not help when it's cloudy.

Next week, we will test Blackest Black.  This stuff is so flat, it turns 3D objects flat.

This wing is covered with orange silk on the top and black silk on the bottom.  It looks grey and would be excellent if I was trying to camouflage the model in the air.   White was added to the dihedral break and there was no improvement.  But now take a look at the very tip.  A single coat of Blackest Black 2.0 and no light gets through.

How much better can Black 3.0 be?