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News and Reports 2000 - First half
SCAT Electronic News 1 February 2000

Table of Contents
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"Hey Kid, Ya' Wanna Build..." series - Leo
Tough Stuff - Lane
John Simms
Airfoil question - Gregorie
Decades encore - Brokenspar
FIC fuel - Summersby
Braided wire - Donde
Making it look pretty - Editor

"Hey Kid, Ya' Wanna Build..." series
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Hi Admin,

I can not find any copies of the "Hey Kid, Ya' Wanna Build..." series by 
Bill Warner.  If the posting I copied below is still a valid offer, can I 
send a check to Mr. Warner's address?  Thanks.

Leo


WARNER, BILL
1370 Monache Ave.
Porterville,CA 93265
1(209)782-9265
Publisher of this list. Author of HEY KID,YA' WANNA BUILD A MODEL AIRPLANE? 
a step-by-step guide for beginning modellers. The book is illustrated with 
photos and great line drawings by Jim Kaman. The 14-part series from Model 
Builder Magazine has been adapted to three books, (available from Hannan's 
Runway, Peck Polymers,your local bookstore,or direct from me at 1370 
Monache,Porterville,CA 93257) published by McGraw-Hill/TAB at $7.95) Vol.1, 
subtitled "The Peck R.O.G." covers basic aeronautics and aerodynamics via 
the modified Sleek-Streek and Peck R.O.G. (all models available by mail from 
Peck's). MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! ( I need the money) Vol.2 is titled "The 
Sky Bunny" (Peck Polymers now has the model kitted: $8.95) and i s an 
intermediate guide, while Vol.3 is called "The Flying Aces Moth" and sells 
for $10. SPECIAL DEAL! ALL THREE FOR ONLY $20.POSTPAID AND AUTOGRAPHED UNTIL 
MY PRESENT STOCK IS GONE. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

[Sorry - Don't know , that posting is quite old -
you could try calling the number]



Tough Stuff
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Roger;

I thought the "toughest Free Flight operational test" was either an F1C bunting
over under power, continuing descent with or without wings.  A close second is
the F1A failed release in wind/snagged the damn line on the damned bush nose 
dive tether into terra firma.  You are correct in assigning the "toughest 
Free Flight operational test" to the Wake guys (pre 30 gram at least), 
but it is the motor failure while pulling with all your might, winder 
near hip level...OUCH!

Don't forget the glide into high tension lines....

digested by bovines....

I am sure there are other "toughest tests" worth hearing!

Robb


John Simms
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John, I am looking for John Kamla's (designer of the "Marie" P-30) 
address, e-mail or other. I have some sad news, one of our 
friends,companion,and competitor, John Simms has passed away. He had 
been campainging the "Marie" down here for the past year with success,
and I know he had been in contact with John Kamla concerning the model.=
I just felt that John K would like to know.
JRB 


Airfoil question
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I was ferreting around my PC's disk last night and found the co-ordinates
for the MOCH545 airfoil. Its a thin foil without much camber (roughly 5% and
5% with the high point at 40%.

Can anybody tell me more about it (design purpose, designer, does it work
well)?

TIA

Martin

Decades encore
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Decades:
Bob Wiehle's arithmatic is not correct.Maybe a typo.
                                                                     
                 In 1927 I was four years old, living in Hamburg, Germany.
{ I have had DREAMS that I could fly, floating in the kitchen
of our vaguely remembered apartment on the Pappel Allee,
with it's wood or coal burning stove, in a part of Hamburg that no
longer exists. I had a chamber pot in that kitchen.
I was then called Hartmut.
This dream came later in life. Free Flight of a kind.).
Check Freud on this kind of freeflight !
I claim only solid models for the 20s.

Real candidates for having flown in the 20s would be Hewitt Phillips,
Zaic ( of course ), I'm sure many others still with us.

Brokenspar



FIC fuel
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Dear Roger
I am coming to U.S.A. to compete in both the Isaacson and the Maxmen 
could you please arrange for someone to supply me with 1lt of F.1.C.
fuel.I will be stoping at Motel 6 from Friday the 9th. Hope this is not
a problem.

Roy Summersby.

[Roy,
Firstly it's great to hear that you are coming and going to make
both contests.

This weekend at the SCAT 40th Doug Joyce said that he would have 
fuel at the Isaacson. For the contest and enough to do some testing for 
the visiting sportsmen. I think the 9 Feb is a Wedensday, not the Friday.

I'm not sure what the plan is for the MaxMen ... George can you comment?
or is there a F1C flyer who would like to team up with Roy ?

]
 

Braided wire
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Hello Lee,
A source for braided wire is 
Sava ind.
Riveradale NJ
TEL 973-835-0882
 I just bought 250 feet of item #2006 which is 1x7 of .152 mm ( .006 in.) 
DIA. You can get it un- coated or coated with nylon or vinyl.
cost ,only  $ 0.11 per foot.
Give 'em a call and get a catalog.
Arik Donde


Making it look pretty
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One recent author complained about his article appeared in print.
It was folded with some lines lots longer than others.

It's the authors responsibility to make sure that what you write
will look OK. In many cases the author has a view point he wants
to express - they way its formatted is as important as the words
but its your view point - not mine. 

I explained once before that the process I use
automatically 'reduces' the mail to a maximum of 78 characters on a
line. In the days of pretty variable pitch fonts this is  some
what primative. However it's the only way to make this so everyone
can read it ... and if you know the rules you can take advantage
of them. 

If your e-mail program has the ability to set the font - set
it to a fixed pitch font such as courier and make sure
the margin is not too wide. Then it should come out just fine.

At the risk of offending some more sensitive readers - this is 
the way it is - I spend enough time doing this with out having
to fix up everyone's writings.  So its this way or not at all.


..................
Roger Morrell