Model Airplanes

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Can a “Flivver” fly? Can a “Camel” fly? Come find out at the “Wings Wheels Festival of Flight Air and Car Show” Saturday, Sept. 8.

The Fox Valley Aero Club is celebrating 100 years of automotive and aviation history. You will see many examples of both antique cars and radio controlled model airplanes.

Enjoy seeing 100 years of radio-controlled model aviation history, as well as 100-year-old historic Model-T cars.

Dale Gathman, the Aero Club president, said, “This is a real opportunity for families to visit and view 100 years of aviation and automotive history all in one place on one day. We will have over 20 Model T-era cars, as well as over 100 RC model airplanes.”

Joseph Rush from the Model T Club adds, “The Midwest Chapter of the Model T Ford Club International is a group of about 100 families in the Chicago metropolitan area interested in preservation, restoration, and enjoyment of antique vehicles, particularly the Model T Ford. We also like to promote interest in, and share history about, the Model T Ford to others.”

The audience will have an opportunity to see the cars up close and learn more about these historic cars and interesting hobby.

Tom Flint, one of the “Wings Wheels” event organizers, said, “I feel this event meets two goals by joining the radio control airplane club and the Model T Club for this event.

“First, the purpose of both

Article source: https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20180902/celebrate-100-years-of-aviation-and-automobile-history-at-wings-amp-wheels-festival

by James Thalman Davis Clipper LAYTON—Meet Robert Gray. At age 79, he’s got to be one of the happiest guys in Davis County, maybe even in Utah. If he hasn’t figured out the meaning of life, he knows the next best thing to it—maintaining a life-long childhood passion. His “thing” is model airplanes. He whittles miniature propeller bi-planes from the barnstorming days to World War II fighters that he often gives away. Gray can do one in two weeks. His full-scale love of airplanes really takes flight in his homemade, carefully sculpted and properly scaled radio-controlled beauties that fill his garage. He builds them from scratch from blueprints he has often drawn himself. A Robert Gray design is still considered the height of excellent model making among RC (radio-controlled) enthusiasts around the country. He was soldering a landing gear on his latest – a 1947 Aeronca Champ – recently. “Landing gears are a pain to work on,” Gray says with a laugh. He says most everything with a laugh, so he’s not quite convincing when he says anything about building an airplane is a “pain.” He obviously loves every single teeny, tiny bit – and there are hundreds of them – involved in a project. And just as one gets completed he has another one coming off his assembly line of ideas for the next one. To the casual observers, whose experience with model planes were the 15-cent balsa wing and fuselage with a rubber band powered propeller, Gray is

Article source: http://davisclipper.com/life/model-airplane-artist-passionate-about-his-craft/

By


Harry Valentine


2018-09-03 18:43:49

Over the past three years, various aviation technical publications have reported on developments in hybrid and battery-electric aircraft propulsion. A French made two-seat battery powered aircraft flew a distance of 300 miles in two hours at 20,000 feet. There would likely be scope to adapt future technology developments in hybrid and battery powered aeronautical propulsion to ground effect maritime technology involving wing ships that could occupy a unique future market niche.

Introduction

Some 50 years ago, there were two forms of propulsion for small scale-model aircraft. Some lightweight models were made from Balsa wood and used a twisted rubber to drive the propeller to provide some short-distance propulsion while being tethered to a control line. Small single-cylinder 2-stroke piston engines provided the propulsion on larger radio controlled scale model airplanes and other tiny aircraft actually used solid-fuel rocket propulsion. Even as recently as

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