t this time of year, we allthink, “where did theyear go?” And of course,

we all run around trying to getthose last minute holiday giftsfor our family and friends.Like I said last month, baby,it’s cold outside... I want totake the time to wish eachand every one of you guys andgals, a very Merry Christmasand a Happy New Year. Andregardless of your politicalstandings, we all should wishfor the swift and safe return ofall our troops overseas.Remember, it’s not the news-

papers and reporters that giveus freedom of speech, it is ourmen and women in uniformwho do that. So lets get to it!

Andy’s C-131I recently received a packageat the office from Andy

Anderson with several photosfor the Pilot’s Project columnin MAN. As you can see withour lead photos, Andy’s proj-ect is an impressive Convair240 also referred to in militarydress as the C-131 Samaritan.This has been one of my alltime favorite modeling sub-

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The Warbird Newsletter 12/07

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Holiday Seasons

Andy’s C-131 Samaritan

Mark’s Spitfire

Coming Events

E-flite Texan

Long Island Biplanes

This impressive Convair 240 / C-131 Samaritan will be featured in a future issue of Model Airplane News.

Andy Anderson’s 82 inch span cargo plane is a great flyer and looks great.

jects and when I saw Andy’s82 inch cargo plane, I knewyou guys would like to see it.The model is built from stan-dard balsa and plywood con-struction with strip plankingin the nose and tail sections.The C-131 is powered by apair of O.S. FX .32 2-strokeglow engines and the model isout fitted with Robartmechanical retracts sportingshock absorbing Robo Struts.I loved Andy’s Samaritan somuch I convinced him to writea construction article and it

will be featured in an upcom-ing issue of MAN. So staytuned.

Mark’s SpitfireAnd talking about MAN con-struction articles, the newestbuild-along article to comealong is this impressive elec-tric powered Spitfire designedby long time MAN contributorMark Rittinger. Powered by agear MultiPlex brushlessmotor and having foam wingsand a built up fuselage,

Coming

Events

January 18, 2008

Warbirds over Paradise

Cape Coral, FL

(239) 282-0635

Cape Coral R/Sea Hawks

February 22 - 24, 2008

WRAM Show

White Plains, NY

Show Manager, Lou Scarlino

wramanager@aol.com

April 4 - 6, 2008

Toledo Show

Toledo, OH

Show Manager, Wayne Yeagar

www.toledoshow.com

April 23 - 27, 2008

Top Gun Scale Invitational

Lakeland, FL

Contact: Frank Tiano

www.franktiano.com

May 14 - 17, 2008

Joe Nall Giant Scale Fly In

Greenville, SC

Contact: Mike Gregory

(864) 297-1201

www.joenall.com

September 25, 2008

CCRCC 7th Annual

Big Biplane Bash

Farmington, CT

Contact: Gerry Yarrish

(860) 354-6273

www.ccrcclub.org

Showing off the new Texan in the MAN

office. I used the new JR 9303 2.4 trans-

mitter with this little warbird.

Mark’s Spitfire joins his manyother WW2 designs availablein MAN’s RCStore.com web-site. The 42-inch-span Spitfireuses 3-channels (no-rudder,)for control. Other designsMark has published in MANare, the P-51D Mustang, P-40Warhawk, Me-109E, Ki-61,Tony, SBD Dauntless, and theHawker Hurricane. (All rough-ly the same size.) So keepyour eyeballs peeled!

Gerry’s AT-6 TexanI couldn’t help myself withthis one so I included mynewest project here for youguys to see. This is the new E-flite “Platinum Series” AT-6Texan 25E available fromHorizon Hobby Distributors. This great 52-inch span Texanis very easy to assemblerequiring almost no gluing.The wings, tail surfaces and

the fuselage are all fully-sheet-ed and the wing panels andhorizontal stabs plug intoplace over aluminum tubejoiners. The wing is in 3-pieces and it comes with pro-visions to drop custom mademechanical Robart retractsright into place. The model isdesigned for the E-Flite Power25 outrunner motor and a 60amp Pro ESC. I used a 4200mAh 3-cell Lipo pack and thisgives a solid 10 to 12 minutesof flight time. Plenty for me.Oh, I forgot to mention, it alsocomes with 3-panel flaps.Actually, the whole model isassembled like a much largerairplane, and is very similar tothe 150-sized Hangar 9 P-47.The little Texan even has dualelevator servos. And it flieslike a bigger airplane too. Theflaps are very effective and inall, I love this first addition tothe Platinum Series of E-flite

warbirds. Hmmm, I wonder,what’s in the works for nextyear?

Long Island

Biplane LoversAs many of our WarbirdNewsletter readers alreadyknow, my annual Big BiplaneBash for 2007 was a very bigsuccess. Held the 4thSaturday of September, the2007 event hosted by theCentral CT RC Club inFarmington, CT was our 6thouting and one of the big rea-sons we had such a greatevent is that many of the guysfrom Long Island bandedtogether for the long tripnorth. Below is a group phototaken and sent in by SalCalvagna, and I thought itwould be great to end thisnewsletter with it. Thanksguys, I hope to see you all in2008!

That time of yearIn closing, I’d like to thankeveryone for there support andagain give my annualreminder that the 2008 sub-scription fees are now comingdue. Please send in your $5payment between now and theMarch issue. Please send to:

Gerry Yarrish

78 Chapin Road

New Milford, CT 06776

Now here’s a serious collection of serious biplane lovers. The 2007 Big Biplane Bash was a big success

because of all the pilots who made the effort to come out and fly. My thanks go out to all!