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C-Oh-Two climbing like a homesick angel!
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I look at this photo and I’m amazed- was it really going up that steeply? Maybe this was the first flight, before it had enough down-thrust. Jerry Hodson gave me this kit and it was by far the best stick and tissue plane I’d built up to that point- I used buyterate fuel-proof-dope instead of the more appropriate nitrate (C02 gas was the ‘fuel’ in this case). I put dope all over the sticks, I used heavy silkspan on the wing (why?) Blah blah blah. At least I could move the CO2 tank around to balance it -no ballast!
If the structure had been actually square I might not have needed the little trim tabs of masking tape that you can see on the wing tip and tail surfaces. Oh well! It was flying, very well, and it made me want to do better. I’d argue that my Peck Polymers Mitsubishi Zero was even better- a rubber powered "scale" free flier that would rise above the level it was released from. On rubber band power! That made me very happy. Still too much butyrate dope!
I need more pictures and to build more models…
One of the cool things about this photo is that the focal-plane shutter of my SLR camera was zipping along over the film while the prop was spinning… with the result that the prop appears to be bent, since it rotated during the time the slit of the shutter sped across the film. You see this effect with the old Speed Graphic press cameras from the 1930s and before- all those early racing cars that appear to be leaning forward or back… the Speed Graphic’s focal plane shutter operated vertically.
Fuselage is natural balsa wood, paper and dope, the wing is the same but with a list mist of Corsair Dark Blue on the top. Looks pretty sharp- natural + dark blue-gray. Yellow prop doesn’t hurt.
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The original, fairly bad, photo…
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Here’s my office at home, circa 1984 or 1985. Given all the photos of this vintage that I took and have no interest in anymore, its a shame I didn’t take at least one picture of each model airplane for the record.
The Monogram B-36, backdated from an RB-36H to a B-36B, is center, with ESCI’s 1/48 MiG 23 behind it and the old Aurora A7 Corsair II over on the left, center. One of my model rockets is behind and above the B-36- the two cubs big-end to big-end, with a vacuformed dome on top for streamlining… looks like an RPG-7! It wasn’t it was a cargo rocket to carry a 7 oz Miller or Michelob beer bottle.
Monogram lightlly cleaned up the A-7, added a nice triple ejector rack and some semi-accurate Mk 82 500lb dumb bombs, and released it in their photo-of-the-model-on-the-box period, it hasn’t been re-released in a generation, and for good reason. If its a collectable, my building this one made everyone else’s more valuable, and you’re welcome! It was a present from a co-worker and I proudly built it and hung it on my cubicle wall at work.
Over to the right, you can just make out the fuselage and horizontal stabilizers of the Guillow’s Hawker Hurricane that almost worked as a rubber-band powered flying model. I built it light-er than usual, replaced the foolish plastic nose with an honest balsa nose that could take the thrust of a rubber motor AND the crashes. It kinda sorta almost worked. Not as good as the Peck Polymers Mitsubishi Zero but the best of any Guillow plane I ever made- that would be two FW-190s, two Hurricanes, a P-40, some kind of cabin high-wing job. Not to mention a Scientific Me-109 and Jetco Hawk (or was that a Dart?) that never got close to flying.
Elsewhere in this room at this time were my 1/72 Space Shuttle (Monogram kit, Revell had the awful raised lines between the thermal tiles) and possibly (if 1986) my 1/72 AVRO Vulcan.
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