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not

accepting

any

new

orders,

and

will

f i l l

exrst ing

rderson a delayed

a5is.

I m

sorry o see he

business

o,

but t

added

ust

oo much

ore5sure n the

limited

ime I had eft

over

after

ob

ano

family

esoonsibi l i t ies.

e were

in ful l

production

nearly five years,

and l 'm

proud

of the

quali ty

kits we

put

out

dur ing

hat ime.We

didn'tma e

barrets

of money,and we didn't exoect o. But

ran nto a o t

of satisfied

ustomers ronc

the way,

and

not

too many

complaintsi

Thanks

o al lof

you

who supported

he

enteronse.

Plansor

al l he

designs ir red

by RM

are st i l l

avai lable or

scratch-bui ldine.

The

or iginalDragmaster

s PlanNo.

18

from

M.A.N.;

he

Ult imateDragmaster

isNo.

141.M.A.N.

lsohasl/2AMaver ick

plans

Set

No.104).

arstens ubl icar ions

has he Zingo Set

CF-271)s t o r iginal ly

appeared n Flying

Models.

row

CHUNG

Hr.GT|PS

IROM DOWN

UNDTR

Lastmonth's

indoor"

column nes-

lected o

include

dnvrhing

abo'rr rhie

mosl

popular

event,

gl ider.

The oltow-

ing

piece

rom

Sourh s/and

News

New

Zealand)

by Stew Co)(

should help

rect i fv he

5rtudl ion.Nore

thdl he is

talk ing bout owceil ing 35feetor less),

which

probablv

includes

the vast

maior i ty

f

indoor

sites

n

thiscountry.

Looking

at

previous

Nats resuhs or

IHLC,

one can

neatly

always dentify

a

gap

between he top half-dozen

scores

and

lhe

reJt.

hii ir

due to the lact

that

the

"rest"

have

been taken n

by

lhe

appatent

simplicityol indoor

chucky.

Normally

members

ol this

gtoup

arc

quite

serious nd

build wo or three new

models

oer

event

because heir earlier

modelr we/e

no

good

ot brol.en.

Con-

versely,

the

top

group

can

be seen

flying

exactly he samemodelsyear

fter

yeat,wilh repla.eme s necessarynl y

after

overexuberanl

aunches.

t

there-

fore

appears pqopriate fo

exp05e he

secrets

/ the so-called ndoor

chucky

elite. Basically

he lecret

is

summed

up

my Matt in

Dil ly

(actual ly

rhank rhe

quote

was

or iSinal ly nr ibuted

o Eil l

Slout.

TH)

saying . .

SIMPLICATE ND

AOD

MORTTICHINf

55I

fhe ctilical actors:

DfSlcN

StrcA

wrrh

a

proven

desrgn

Sweepette, unker Hill, Coot, etc.

WEICHT

fhe

easiest ay o

a5se5she

potential

Mike Wineland

ser

a nw

Cat. l l l 1/2A record with this

simple Jdelskywing design

at the'80

Nats. Proud Pap6DaveWineland

suppl ied

he

photo.

t

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Wakefie ld47th pbcsr , Gre3t Br i ta in 's lan Kaynr, wird. h i i

'nodsl

ar rhs 1973 F/F Worb

ChamF at Wiener Nunadl, Aunr ia, rumo.od

si le ot ths 1983 Champ .

but a small amotnt of extta ellon/think-

ing

rnakes

lor

signilicant

improvements

and

lar more

sati5lying

esults. l t i5

a,5o

important to note that the

"secretJ"

mentioned here amount to nothing

more

than common senie,

which is

the

guts

of all

model tlying.

INTTRNATIONAI. RUMORS

DTPARTMTNT

Peler Al lnut t is

the

world's foremost

example of a

globe-trot t ing

free f l ighter .

His

air l ines

ob

permits him

to t ravel ,and

he can be spotted at nearly any large

internatronal free f lrght

(

ompetitron

(though

he hasn't made it lo Harts Lake

Prair ie, yet). He made it down

lo ihe

Sierra Cup and

luan

I ivol to

(onresls

In

Cal i fornia th is

fal l , l rom which

I

learned

the fol lowing t idbi t .

Peler went down to

Cuba

for the

Cuban Nats. Flying

was

stopped

for

three daysbecause

of

a hurr icane, wh ich

gave

him

a

good

opportuni ly to

hole

up

with RussianPower expert Eugen

Verbi t -

ski. Verbitski

speaks Ingl ish

(a

facl nor

revealed

at

previous

World Champs

when rn

the

presen