JANUARY 2010

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This is from the recent Texas Scale Champs meet in Dallas/Ft. Worth, submitted by Duke Horn. The airplane itself was the product of Cunningham Hall Aircraft Corp., which produced its last plane in 1937 and went broke in 1948. Full information is not available on this model or its flyer. It caught our attention because of the odd flaps on the top surface of the wing. More info should be available for next month's issue.

Here's the Red Racer, one of This Month's Models. Note that there are no pants on the landing gear, a nice weight-saving that may have been a feature of the full-size aircraft.
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The "Webby," built by Bob Spink; the plan was in October 2009 Windy Sock. Bob says it's a "good flyer," a term subject to wide interpretations among free-flighters. In our opinion, applying it to Webby would mean a nice take-off from water, a wide circle at about 20' altitude and a gentle landing on water. Let's hear more about it!

Bill Hannan sent us this photograph of the Zlin 526 AS "Akrobat"; the plan for a catapult glider model was in November 2009 Windy Sock. It would be nice to see successful scale catapult gliders on the free-flight scene.
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Bill Hutchinson's Nakajima B5N2, a Japanese torpedo bomber of WWII. Looks like a very good flyer, Bill! Built from a Diehls kit.

A Curtiss Condor under construction by (who else?) Joe Fergusson.
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