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Fred Tellier (Detroit Cloudbusters) and Larry Lucka waiting to process their F1D's at the Flint Dome contest. It was taken by Phil Alvirez and is one of the only photos we have seen that shows the colors resulting from the microfilm. |
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Winding the rubber motor of an ROG Stick. Notice the trim tabs used to adjust flight. |
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Here, the wound rubber motor is carefully transferred onto an airplane. |
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This beautiful biplane can make an automatic thrust adjustment in flight. |
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Ray Harlan's biplane in flight at MIT. Total flight time under a 40' ceiling was over 15 minutes. |
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An Albatros DII biplane by Jack Kacian. It weighs 9.5 grams and does 65 seconds indoors. |
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An Easy-B in slow, graceful flight. |
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The Fokker Dr.1 Triplane has an 8" span and a weight of 4 grams. It's made from meat tray foam sanded very thin and amazingly detailed. The only balsa is the struts and nose block, the prop is yogurt container blades with bamboo stubs set into a ballpoint pen tube hub. The best flight so far is 37 seconds indoors and nearly a minute outdoors. |
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This P-47D was built by George Nason has an 8" span with true scale flying surface outlines. It's made of blue insulation foam and has a prop thats 70% of the wingspan! It does over a minute indoor and has done up to 2 minutes outside! It's an incredibly detailed model for it's size. |
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A Pennyplane launch in Canada. |
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Ray Harlan holding his F1D at North Andover, Mass. Note the large, transparent propeller. |
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