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July/August 1963 American Modeler
Table of Contents

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

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



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July/August 1963 American ModelerTable of Contents