Description

24 StarFox – Floyd Manly – A wide-bodied RC sportster with a variety of flight styles
30 The Delta Difference! – Ivan Munninghoff – The advantages are explained. and how to design your own
36 Super Cruiser – Chuck Felton – Build this CL sportster from cardboard’
42 Switcher II – Larry Kruse – An all-sheet balsa free flight for catapult or rocket power
46 COX Hobbies’ Typhoon ARF – Frank Fanelli – An FM Product Review: Easy to assemble. and a joy to fly
50 New England Air Museum – Bob Aberle – On the Museum Trail, Part I of a series
Columns
54 Flyin’ Things for Fledglings – Earl VanGorder – More news from the gang
60 RC Giant Scale – Frank Costello – The quest for the perfect pump
62 RC Pattern – Dean Pappas – A gathering in Guelph, and soft mount technology
64 RC Soaring – Herk Stokely – The Selig 4233, and the Anderson plots
66 WhirlyWords – Dale Hart – Introducing our new RC Helicopter column
68 RC Sport – Dick Sarpolus – More on muffling the big ones
69 Fan Facts – Art Arro – Refinements to the Turbax I
70 Electric Flight – Dick Gibbs – Futaba’s FP-4NBL revisited, coming events and new products
72 FF Sport – Larry Kruse – A variety of free flying subjects
74 CL Combat – Phil Cartier – Are big “money meets”‘ a good thing?
76 CL Stunt – Windy Urtnowski – The advantages of video tape for stunt
RC Model Boating
80 Competition Marine Design’s 45 Moongoose – John Porter – An FM Product Review: A pre-fab outrigger hydro with style
84 RC Scale Boats – Bill Michaels – Getting the lights right
86 RC Sport Boats – Don Bilsky – Flatting shafts, new pipes and a new tunnel hull
On the Cover: Rotate’ Butch Sickel’s large Dynamax powered Concorde. posed in a realistic takeoff mode, shows off its graceful delta planform. Triangle wing aircraft, like Butch’s, are Ivan Munninghoff’s subject in an interesting article about these unique lifting surfaces. Photo Frank Fanelli. Inset FM’s new RC Helicopter columnist, Dale Hart, checks out a Schluter Superior on its maiden flight. Dale’s comments can be found on page 66 in “WhirlyWords” Photo: Bob Hunt