Radio Control Giant Scale John de Vries Colonel USAF Ret LOOKING BACK January 1938 issue Model Airplane News Jays Hobby Shop Los Angeles advertised Megow Art Chesters Jeep kit 4-in scale 0 postpaid course gas-powered Free Flight modelbut one-third size prototype racer Cleveland advertisements earlier model magazines touted Stinson gull-wing kits 82-in spans suitable Brown Jr gas engine Peerless Model Airplane Com pany $550 plus 50 cents postage promised 72-in Taylor Cub kit Digging magazines Thirties practically issue photographs what now call Giant Scale Rubber-powered Mono coupes Boeing F4B-4s spans seven nine feet common kits Miniature Aircraft Company sold 82-in Lockheed Vegas powered rubber A-horsepower gas engines $1800 silent fliers didnt stand short good old days Fourteen-foot Sailplanes relative ly common April 1938 ModelAirplane News featured 10-ft-span 100%-scale Pri mary Glider magazine collection begins 1932 paging through volumes reveals modelers doing what today designing building Giant Scale essential differences between now volve power radio control pioneering giant builders limited rubber build light Two-and-a-half three pounds norm eight-foot Scale models twisted rubberbands power other Scale modelers delighted achieving 200-ft flights giant builders sailing out 900 claimed now big uns superior aero dynamic performance Its really puzzling majority modelers stuck 12-in 24-in Scale models larger birds flew much better probably matter cost first contest ever won Denny Condor rubber-powered Duration model prize five whole dollars promptly spent nine Cleveland Dwarf Thompson Trophy racer kits still half buck left over glue dope same money would have purchased five size real planes GHQ Monocoupe Stinson kits thIs ancIent hIstory couple reasons First indicate building large-sized Scale models has long varied tradition As long have model airplanes modelers have building giant sizes days wing tips made bamboo strips bent around hot light bulbs make own glue dissolving celluloid acetone B-I-G Bleriots Wrights Taubes have proliferated second reason history lesson bring attention host Giant Scale designs already flight-proven can adapted todays structural demands can adapted radio control Admittedly old-time Giant designs rep resent period wont find Scale subjects suitable ducted fans What will find aircraft prototypes pre-World War II era Everything simplest Cub multi-engined aircraft like Boeing 247 transports Martin B-b bombers available noted March column Giant Scale builders always lookout unus ual different Scale subjects Unless have access old modelbuilders attic coming up Golden Era Flight giant model plans might tad difficult soif read ads carefully John Ponds Old Time Plan Service P0 Box 90310 San Jose CA 95109-3310 lists bunch drawings type talking about Itll cost $2 acquire both Johns OldTimer Flying Scale catalogs through K L through Z based name prototype Johns 17th edition should out time read plus couple hours time going through looking just what have mind itll probably selection broad defy description particular type aircraft isnt available Giant size isnt difficult enlarge smaller plans suit needs Youre going have indulge bit engineering anyway beef-up structure permit use big engine provide radio installation isnt difficult double treble size basic drawing Giant size Theres another onel Someone else building -scale Ryan B-5 used Paul Matts drawings too Recently got phone call Fred Waliman Richfield MN allowed Ryan about same point its construction too puzzled layout con struction Ryans landing gear Fred ever has big advantage over Yours Truly 36 years operated own machine shop may remember manufactured Giant Scale retracts under Annco name event despite fact Ryans main gear strut intersects forward wing strut two supporting struts Fred has made drawing works quarter-scale envisions scale shock absorber gear strut Fred really two questions ask first would like set shock-absorbing Ryan main landing gear struts kids like ice cream Giant Scale models fly great answer course affirmative since Fred said its almost easy make two sets gears second question still evades answer arent commercially-available wheels 6-inch size requires nor seveninch size need specific Ryans build ing have different wheel sizes Obviously both going have build own wheels ideal tires wheels would suitably-sized 0-rings Somebody somewhere makes 0-rings proper diameter 0ness neither us has uncovered source 54 Model Aviation Designer/builder Emil Agosta Dry Ridge Models Weaverville NC has kittens big 1 /3-scale 10-ft span J-3 Kitten ultralight replica tiles Quadra G-23 smaller 1/4-scale wingspan 90 area 1100 sq flies Salto 45 fourstroke bones models shown Bill Winters columns Brian 0Mearas giant P-51 Malcomb hood flies great looks photos page Delmar Water sons Dighton KS private air force Byron Originals Pitts uses Quadra 50 power Theres servo four ailerons sliding canopy too note scale GiasAir Delmar 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