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July/August 1963 American Modeler
Table of Contents

July / August 1963 American Modeler

July/August 1963 American Modeler magazine cover Table of Contents

These pages from vintage modeling magazines like Flying Aces, Air Trails, American Modeler, American Aircraft Modeler, Young Men, Flying Models, Model Airplane News, R/C Modeler, captured the era. All copyrights acknowledged.

July/August 1963

Vol. 60, No. 4

 

Cover - Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress by Robert Martin

 

Speaking of Models - Early Wankel Engines 5
Rocket Trails: Boost/Gliders on Upswing, by Harry Stine 6
Modelin' Folk Singers, by Dick Schwarzchild 14
Retracting Gear B-17G Control Liner,

Keith Laumer & John Simmance

16
Armstrong-Whitworth F.K. 10 Quadruplane,

Jim Morrow and Peter Bowers

 22
Carl Goldberg: "Mr. Modeling" 24
Whistler, by Dr. Ralph Brooke 25
Control Line Capers, by Wild Bill Netzeband 29
Model Boating - Aquativities, by Bill Baughman 32
"Handy-Mac" 50-mc R/C Transmitter, by Howard G. McEntee 36
Goldberg Falcon Sires a Junior 64
Sketchbook - Construction, Adjustment, and Workshop Ideas 68

 

Table of Contents for July/August 1963 American Modeler - Airplanes and Rockets

 

ALBERT L. LEWIS, EDITOR

H.S. Leumann, Technical Editor

Rose Borello, Editorial Production

Clarence Scott, Art Director

 

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

Howard McEntee, Radio Control

James M. Triggs, Scale Presentations

Douglas Rolfe, Air Progress

William Netzeband, U-Control

William A. Baughman, Model Boats

William Winter, Free Flight

Dick Everett, West Coast

H. A. Thomas, Sketchbook

Paul Plecan, Scale Views

Howard Levy, Modern Planes

Peter M. Bowers, Early Planes

 

 

Posted July 28, 2012