Kirt Blattenberger
Carpe Diem!
(Seize
the Day!)Even during the busiest times of my life I have endeavored to maintain
some form of model building activity. This site has been created to help me chronicle my journey
through a lifelong involvement in model aviation, which
all began in Mayo, MD. There
is a lot of good information and there are lot
of pictures throughout the website that you will probably find useful, and might
even bring back some old memories from your own days of yore. The website began life around
1996 as an EarthLink screen name of ModelAirplanes, and quickly grew to where more server
space ...
Copyright 1996 - 2022
Webmaster:
Kirt
Blattenberger
BSEE - KB3UON
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trademarks, copyrights, patents, and other rights of ownership to images and
text used
on the Airplanes and Rockets website are hereby acknowledged.
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As supplied, the snaps have a shape that tend to wrench the deck eyelets out of the deck when tension is put on the lines. This
occurs because the centerline of the snap is not aligned in the direction of the tension. A simple reforming of the snap
wires into
a rounded shape will correct the problem. Better yet, a trip to the fishing section of Wal-Mart or a tackle shop will yield a new set of snaps
that already have the rounded shape. 