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    Has anybody seen the advertisement in Jan .91  Rcm.
    They have a company marketing a rocket launched glider.
    I think this is borderline insanity and looks pretty neat.
    The idea of loading a glider with model rockets propelents,
    after putting the expense out for the model and a radio and 
    having it javelin into the ground a mach 2.0 appeals to the 
    child in me , but the adult side , could not bare to watch 
    his effort destroyed . 
    
    Bob in PHO 

    
    By the AMA safety code I think this airplane would void any
    insurance coverage you are afforded.
    
    Tom

    IMHO the plane would be a gas to "play" with but there is the insurance
    question. My biggest gripe here is why would the mag even run an ad for
    a model that breaks all saftey issues and is suppose to be dedicated to
    radio control modelers.
    It all comes down to "money talks".

    
    
    Calm down folks. Rocket boost R/C Gliders have been around for years.
    And AMA does allow JATO and permanately affixed rocket motors. Read AMA
    Safety Code.

    Boost rockets & rocket gliders is an actual compitition in the model
    rocket hobby.  These are both free flight and remote.  Look into the
    rocketry notes file for more detailed explanation.
    
    Scott 

  What you DON'T want to do is launch rockets *from* your plane.  That is 
against the AMA codes.

    
     Yea, but is it OK to launch your plane from a rocket? :)

    
    
    
    >>Yea, but is it ok to launch your plane from a rocket? ;)
    
    Depends upon which part of "permanently affixed" you don't understand!
    ;8^)

    OK. So if someone went off an built a,say F-100, and set up an affixed
    rocket boster the AMA wouldn't have a problem with insurance. It would
    be wild to build on the launchers they had tried back in the fifties. I
    had seen it on WINGS and they were shooting F-100's and think F-86"s.
    They had launched them to over 160 knots which was above stall speed.
    :)
    

JATO assisted (model rocket engines) C130's have been at the Scale Masters
before. Kinda gotta figure that make's it ok with the AMA, not to mention
the fact that it specifically say's it's ok in the safety rules.

Steve

In the latest issue of Model Builder (Jan 92) there is a brief section covering
the full scale Oshkosh event.  See Hanna's Hanger page 42-43.

Anyway there is one plane that is man carrying but rubber powered.
It has 35 pounds of latex cord rubber in its boom.
Range = 1000 feet.

Another is what they called a piper (but it looks like a Maule or Husky
to me) that is painted up to look like a rubber powered plane.  That is
the side clearly shows the wound up rubber band.

Great stuff.

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    In the Jan. RCSD, page 46, a picture of Bill Wilsons' Ford Explorer!
    ;^).
    
    Don't recognize any of the gliders in the picture, must all belong
    to C.A.S.L. members.
    
    See 399.894 for the report on this contest.
    
    Terry

Feb-1992 Model Aviation - I know you all get it but I suspect several
don't read the Free Flight section.

Anyway under Free Flight Sport & Scale by Bill Warner he has
several short stories under the topic of "TALL BUT TRUE stories".

My favorite follows:

"One of the funniest I've heard was related to me at the San Diego
Scale Staffel Annual.  About four years ago, at one of the club's
meets, they were flying at a field that was across the street from
a baseball field.  It seems that Don Munn's Bostonian rudder ship 
meandered across the road, glided into the diamond, over the
pitcher's head, and right across the plate at belt height.  If
you had been the batter, what would you have done?  Yup,
he did it... into a thousand pieces!  Witnesses say it was a
memorable moment for Don.

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    On the cover of the latest Hobby Lobby catalog is a blurb about a team
    of 10 guys that flew a Senior Telemaster around Manhatten Island.
    Took them 1:43, 2 boats , 2 pilots, flew under 19 bridges.
    
    Inside the catalog is some new Graupner gizmos that enable you to
    mount servos with conventional mounting lugs on their sides, as in
    glider wings, but still be able to insert the hold-down screws 
    perpendicular to the wing surface, a la the Airtronics 94141.
    
    Terry

    
    Did anyone see the ad for the new movie
    
    Radio Flyer, Powered by Imagination PG-13
    (I think that's what it was called). Is a strange Ad but I think
    I want to see it.
    

    They didn't really say. I assume that since they were doing the
    piloting from boats, it was easier to keep the plane in sight/under
    control if they went under the bridges rather than over.
    
    There are apparently 19 bridges connecting Manhatten with the mainland.
    
    You are now equipped to win many bar bets.
    
    Terry

Does anyone receive this periodical? I am looking to get a copy of
an article from the December 1993 issue.

Any suggestions as to where I might pick up this issue?

Thanks

Dave

Dave,

I get a subscription copy and an advertiser's copy each month. Send me a 
mailing address and I'll send it to you (or stop by the Mill and I'll bring 
it in)

Contact me offline.

Jim 3d::Reith

Hi Jim,

Well, living here in the UNIX world, I sometimes have a little trouble
with those decnet mail addresses, and yours appears to be one of them.

My mailstop is:

ZK03 3/Y25

Thanks again.

Dave

Hi Dave.

Got your email but forgot to bring in the magazine (and I took last week off). 
I'll get it into the mail this week.

Jim