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
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!
