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Will Mariner Solve These Mysteries of Venus?

Venera 9, 10, 13, 14 Venus Surface Images - Airplanes and RocketsPer this 1962 Popular Science magazine article, while awaiting Mariner 2's historic sweep past the cloud-shrouded planet of Venus, experts of imagined Earth's nearest neighbor alternately as a lush prehistoric swamp-world, a dust-choked desert, an endless steamy ocean, or a tar-lake Hades reeking with oily smog. What they knew for sure: Venus, a near-twin to Earth in size and gravity, shows only a bright, lemon-yellow veil when viewed through telescopes. Spectrograms pushed earlier revealed thick carbon-dioxide and a wisp of water vapor, but no firm answers about rotation speed or surface material. Then came shocking new microwave temperature data -600 °F surface heat, day and night. It would be 1975 until the USSR's Venera 9 spacecraft landed on the surface and radioed back the first images...

Hobby People Ad, March 1970, American Aircraft Modeler

Hobby People Ad, March 1970, American Aircraft Modeler - Airplanes and Rockets

This particular Hobby People advertisement is from page 53 of the March 1970 issue of American Aircraft Modeler magazine. Hobby People was probably the first company that I ever did mail order from to get airplane supplies. Hobby People is no longer in operation. All copyrights (if any) are hereby acknowledged. Use the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' inflation calculator to see what items cost in today's dollars. For instance, that $3.99 "Cox .049 Babe Bee" engine would be $26.16 in 2018 money. The "regular" price of $6.00 would be $39.34 in 2018. Cox International. Use the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' inflation calculator to see what items cost in today's dollars. For instance, that $3.99 "Cox .049 Babe Bee" engine would be $34.05 in 2025 money...

Oaken Paper Towel Holder

Paper Towel Holder Project (made from oak flooring) - Airplanes and RocketsOne of the first woodworking projects I remember doing after Melanie and I were married and in our own house was making a paper towel holder out of some scrap pieces of oak flooring. The wood was in the basement of the house, probably from when it was originally installed sometime in the 1950s. A few pieces were glued together along their tongue and groove edges, and then scraped and sanded to a smooth, flat surface. The bottom curved relief shape was retained for character. At some point during our many household moves, the paper towel holder disappeared - we probably donated it as with...

Seed-Inspired Monocopter Takes Flight

Seed-Inspired Monocopter Takes Flight - Airplanes and Rockets"From a [maple] seed-inspired design to a 26-minute flight time on a single rotor, a new monocopter developed by SUTD researchers marks a 10-year journey towards redefining how efficient small flying robots can be. When Singapore celebrated its 50th year of independence in 2015, a team of student researchers led by Associate Professor Foong Shaohui from Singapore University Technology and Design (SUTD) embarked on an ambitious challenge: to design and build a drone capable of 50 minutes of sustained flight. At the time, most hobbyist quadcopters could barely manage half of that. The SG50 Multi-Rotor Drone..."

Mariner 2 Keeping a Date with Venus

Keeping a Date with Venus, December 1962 Popular Science - Airplanes and RocketsAt launch in 1962 when this article appeared in Popular Science magazine, Mariner 2's planners imagined Venus cloaked by benign oceans or lush swamps - temperatures perhaps only "hot-house Earth" elevated. Microwave echoes from Earth hinted at a 600 °F surface, yet editors clung to hope that dense clouds concealed cooler seas and maybe biology. Infrared spectra were interpreted as carbon-dioxide greenhouse gases in a thin, relatively clear layer; the idea of surface pressures a hundred times Earth, sulf­uric-acid rain, and global 860 °F basalt plains lay outside anyone's paradigm. A magnetosphere like Earth's was expected; Venus instead proved geologically inert and wind-scoured, with sluggish super-rotation. Fifty years later, radar from Magellan and Earth-borne interferometry have overwritten 1962 optimism with images of barren basalt plains and scorching CO₂ night.

Who Flew What in the 1962 American Radio Plane Championships

Who Flew What in the American Radio Plane Championships, 1963 Annual Edition American Modeler - Airplanes and RocketsThe 1962 AMA Nationals competition was considered the first major contest for scale radio controlled airplanes. To wit, this article from the 1963 Annual edition of American Modeler, says R/C scale "finally 'came of age.'" Proportional radio sets were becoming common and the reliability of the airborne electronics and batteries was going up while weight and size was coming down. Modelers were much more willing to trust the radios to safely control models that often took many hundreds of hours to build. Sharing frequencies at or near to the 27 MHz band allocated by the FCC to R/C was still a huge risk, but the venues of major contests provided protected areas that were far enough from most interference...

VLEO Tested on Supersonic Spaceplane

VLEO Tested on Supersonic Spaceplane - Airplanes and Rockets"A space domain awareness (SDA) payload has flown on a sub-orbital spaceplane at supersonic speeds, an advance that could provide an alternative to conventional satellite-based SDA. Scout Space's 'Morning Sparrow' sensor suite flew aboard Dawn Aerospace's Aurora platform, an uncrewed reusable rocket-powered high-altitude aircraft. The flight tested the integration of Scout's 'Morning Sparrow' sensor suite aboard the Aurora platform, taking off from Tāwhaki National Aerospace Centre in New Zealand. The flight also marks Scout as the first commercial operator to fly on Dawn Aerospace's Aurora under a strategic partnership in which Scout will develop a first-of-its-kind tactically responsive Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO)..."

Northwest Orient Airlines

Northwest Orient Airlines, April 29, 1950 The Saturday Evening Post - RF CafeNorthwest Orient Airlines, a prominent post-war carrier, heavily promoted its transpacific and domestic routes in publications like The Saturday Evening Post during the 1950s. Their advertisements, often full-page and visually appealing, targeted a broad spectrum of potential travelers. A common ad format featured a diverse group of Americans - hunters, fishermen, housewives, and businessmen - representing the airline's wide appeal. This tableau of everyday life was punctuated by a Northwest Orient Airlines aircraft, often a Boeing Stratocruiser or Douglas DC-6, gracefully soaring across the page, connecting these disparate figures and suggesting easy access to destinations both within the US and across the Pacific. The ads emphasized comfort, speed, and the exotic allure of destinations like Tokyo and Manila, solidifying Northwest Orient Airlines' image as a modern...

Stratosphere Will Be Telecom's Next Frontier

Stratosphere Will Be Telecom's Next Frontier - RF CafeJapan's SoftBank is developing airship-based 4G and 5G cell masts. "With more than 8,000 Starlink satellites in the sky today, low Earth orbit may seem like the place to be to connect the next generation of Internet and cellphone customers. However, some players are placing their bets slightly closer to the ground. Starting next year, Tokyo's SoftBank Corp. will be beaming a prototype 4G and 5G phone and broadband service from the stratosphere to Japanese end users. Floating 20 kilometers above the Earth, the company's airship-based mast will be using energy regeneration..."

JETicopter Advertisement, January 1952 Air Trails

JETicopter Advertisement, January 1952 Air Trails - Airplanes and RocketsFlying model helicopters of any sort were fairly rare in 1952, when this edition of Air Trails magazine hit the news stands. The sophisticated, miniaturized, smart stabilization systems of today's models were not available at any price, and radio control was the realm of military research vehicles. Methods for driving the rotors included glow and gas engines, rubber bands, and even Jetex engines. Many free flight helicopters sported the JETicopter's arrangement of a pair of engines at the end of a moment arm which caused rotation. Cox .010 and .020 engines were a popular choice, as were the Jetex engines. I always wondered what happened when...

Link Flight Simulator - Dirigible R-34

Link Flight Simulator - Dirigible R-34, May 1946 Popular Science - Airplanes and RocketsThis 1946 Popular Science magazine ad trumpets the Link trainer as the first ground device that "feels" like real flight. Drawing parallel with the Atlantic-crossing dirigible R-34, it claims Link alone lets novices master controls, banks, climbs, stalls, and instrument flying in darkness or weather - before leaving the ground. Used by the Armed Forces and airlines, it cuts training time and boosts safety, the ad says; if you want to own a private plane, Link training is "your first step into the Flying Age." Engine instructor Ed Link cobbled together the first "Pilot Maker" in a Binghamton, New York, garage during 1929 and peddled it as a carnival novelty until the Army Air Corps - embarrassed by a spate of fatal 1934 airmail crashes...

Du-Bro Tri-Star R/C Helicopter Build & Review

Du-Bro Tri-Star Review, December 1975 RC Modeler - Airplanes and RocketsDu-Bro was the first American company to produce a radio control helicopter kit - the Whirlybird 505. That was sometime around 1972 It was modeled after the way free flight helicopters were built an the engine and propeller sitting on top of the main rotor, using a free-wheeling rotor that turned in response to the counter torque of the engine. Fixed pitch rotor blades were controlled via a flybar assembly as was the case prior to the advent of flybarless rotor heads. Du-Bro's next helicopter was a much-improved and very popular Hughes 300, using a driven rotor with the engine mounted in the fuselage. It also used a flybar for rotor control. Building off that success, they next introduced this TriStar R/C helicopter. It was smaller than the Hughes 300 and modeled after the RotorWay Scorpion homebuilt helicopter that was all the rage in the 1970s and 80s ...

Eleven Hours of Luck - Record Breaking Mystic

Eleven Hours of Luck - Record Breaking Mystic, March 1968 American Aircraft Modeler - Airplanes and RocketsWay back in 1975, my friend, Jerry Flynn, and I assisted Dick Weber in his successful flight on June 14, 1975, that set a new FAI Closed Course Record of 225 miles in 5 hours and 38 minutes. We were both flaggers to signal when the Tortoise has passed the distance markers. See the article titled, "652 Miles Per Gallon," in the November 1975 issue of Model Aviation magazine. We were not at all involved in all the painstaking effort that Dick had put into preparing his model for the record flight. This account of William Bertrand's trials and tribulations in finally setting a new radio control world endurance record is valuable insight into what it can take to achieve such a goal. test after test on engines, fuel, airframe, radio system, fuel tanks ...

Ohlsson & Rice Engines and Accessories

Ohlsson & Rice, Inc. Engines and Accessories, October 1950 Air Trails - Airplanes and RocketsOhlsson & Rice Inc., a powerhouse of 1950s American model-engineering, cast legendary glow-plug motors loved by car, boat, and plane builders. Born in 1941 Los Angeles from ex-Utica Tool founders J. Ohlsson and R. Rice, the firm cranked out rugged, light cast-aluminum blocks - mainstay .23 to .49 cu in "O&R 60" and 1.3 hp sparkies - plus ready-to-pounce accessible throttles, cowlings, wheels, balsa kits, and tools. Garish orange boxes and comics-style decals made Christmas bright for boys fueling dreams on tether tracks or free-flight, control line, and R/C. Military sales and glittering awards ensured post-war boom...

Powder-Puff Pilots

Powder-Puff Pilots, February 1942 Flying Aces - Airplanes and RocketsThe more things change, the more they stay the same, as the saying goes. In 1942, when this featured appeared in Flying Aces magazine, the participation of women and girls in model aviation was very limited. Being that it was more than 75 years ago, it might have been attributable to a lack of encouragement or even outright discouragement by men and boys. However, here it is 75 years later and the participation rate by women and girls is not that much greater. About the only time you see them in photos in modeling magazines is when they are young girls who are part of a schoolroom group activity conducted by an AMA member. the same goes for model rockets. For that matter, the same goes for model cars, boats, and helicopters. A lot of money and time...

Countdown: Polish Boost-Glider

Countdown: Polish Boost-Glider, October 1968 AAM - Airplanes and Rockets1968 was the beginning of the 3-man crew Apollo era with the first manned space flight of the series, Apollo 7, launching in October of that year. Model rocketry was all the rage. Per this article from a 1968 issue of American Aircraft Modeler magazine, the average age of an American model rocketeer was about 13.6 years. I was 10 years old at the time and had by that time been building and flying model rockets for a year or two. Being a fan of both airplanes and rockets - hence this website's name - I liked the rocket boost gliders. The Estes Falcon, Nighthawk, and Space Plane models were available at the time. The Falcon was the simplest with a pylon-mounted engine that ejected with the ejection charge. The Nighthawk was more akin to the Polish boost-Glider in this article, where the power pod separates from the airplane and comes down via streamer while the airplane glides back to earth...

Sketchbook, October 1958 American Modeler

Sketchbook, October 1958 American Modeler Magazine - Airplanes and Rockets"Sketchbook" (aka "Sketch Book") was a regular feature in American Modeler magazine. It consisted of a handful of construction, operating adjustments, and finishing tips and suggestions (aka "kinks") for model aircraft, rockets, cars, and boats, all submitted by readers. A staff artist put those ideas to drawings. This October 1958 issue included a twin-engined control line model that claimed to fly well even if one engine quit before the other (which was almost always the case on fuel-powered models) - without an outboard thrust offset - due to both engines being located as close as possible to the fuselage centerline. Another tip suggested a method for marking and masking off complex, curved areas for painting by cutting thin strips of Scotch Tape for the initial outline. One reader showed how to significantly strengthen the wing-to-fuselage joint...

Flyin' Jenny Comic Strip - January 4, 1942

Flyin' Jenny Comic Strips: January 4, 1942 Baltimore Morning Sun - Airplanes and Rockets

The Baltimore Sun newspaper, published not far from where I grew up near Annapolis, Maryland, carried Flyin' Jenny from the late 1930s until the strip ended in the mid 1940s, so I saved a couple dozen from there. The first one I downloaded has a publication date of December 7, 1941 - that date "which will live in infamy," per President Roosevelt. Many Americans were receiving word over the radio of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor while reading this comic at the breakfast table. This is the January 4, 1942, Flyin' Jenny comic strip. I expect that soon there will be World War II themes...

The 19th Model Nationals

The 19th Model Nationals, October 1950 Air Trails - Airplanes and RocketsAs reported in this 1950 issue of Air Trails magazine, the 19th annual National Championship Model Airplane Contest, held at Hensley Field Air Station in Dallas, Texas, in 1950, unfolded against a backdrop of military readiness as Marine and Navy air units prepared for the Korean War. Despite the gravity of the situation, more than 500 ardent contestants from the United States, Canada, and Mexico eagerly arrived at Hensley Field, ready to participate in the first-ever National model meet in the Southwest. For many senior flyers, aged between 18 and 21, the competition held special significance, as they were either expecting draft notices or had already decided to enlist...

Radio Measurements in Space

Radio Measurements in Space, May 1967 Electronics World - Airplanes and RocketsThe first thing I learned (or re-learned) in reading this article is that in 1967, "Hertz" had only recently been assigned as the official unit of frequency. According to Wikipedia, International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) adopted it in in 1930, but it wasn't until 1960 that it was adopted by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) (Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures). Hertz replace cycles per second (cps). The next thing that happened was that I was reminded of how images such as the op-art tracing of antenna oscillation that are routinely generated today by sophisticated software, required huge amounts of setup time and trials to yield just a single useful and meaningful image using actual hardware...

Dremel Model 381 Moto-Tool Kit & Instructions

Dremel Moto-Tool Model 381 Kit & Manual - Airplanes and RocketsThis Dremel Model 381 Moto-Tool Kit is the next generation after my Dremel Model 371 Moto-Tool kit that my Dremel Model 370 Moto-Tool was part of. Somewhere along the line I disposed of the plastic box that held the Moto-Tool and accessories, so I looked on eBay for a replacement. After many years of waiting, the closest I came was this Dremel 318 Moto-Tool Kit. It appears to be identical to the Model 371, only it came with the Dremel Moto-Tool Model 380. The Model 380 has ball bearings whereas the Model 370 uses brass bushings. This Dremel Model 381 Moto-Tool Kit appears to be in like-new condition and looks like it has never been used. Scans of all the manual pages are posted below in case you have been looking for them.

Cavalry of the Clouds

Cavalry of the Clouds, March 1937 Flying Aces - Airplanes and RocketsArch Whitehouse's air adventure stories with wily ballistics expert and ace pilot Kerry Keen (alter ego, The Griffon) are one of my favorite reads in the vintage Flying Aces magazines. While testing their amphibious Black Bullet over Long Island, aviator Kerry Keen (the Griffon) and mechanic Barney O'Dare spot a stolen experimental aircraft - a winged fortress capable of carrying tanks. When Barney vanishes mysteriously, Keen discovers his partner has been entangled in a plot to steal "Avalin," a revolutionary armor formula. The trail leads to kidnapped movie star Doreen Yardley, who unknowingly received the formula- all while protecting Keen's masked identity...

The Boom in R/C Boats

The Boom in R/C Boats, June 1955 Popular Electronics - Airplanes and RocketsThis article entitled "The Boom in R/C Boats" appeared in the June 1955 edition of Popular Electronics magazine which, during the early years of its existence devoted quite a bit of print space to radio control airplanes, boats and cars. As with all things electronics, a huge surge in consumer interest was occurring with over-the-air communications. Bill (William) Winter served as the editor of the Academy of Model Aeronautics' (AMA's) American Modeler and American Aircraft Modeler magazines from 1966 through 1974, but his efforts to promote all form of modeling - airplanes, helicopters, cars, boats, trains, and rockets - covered many decades. His first recorded article, "Building the Famous Udet Flamingo," (co-authored by Walter McBride), was published in the March 1935 issue of Universal Model Airplane News magazine...

More... About Stunt Theory

More... About Stunt Theory, March 1957 Model Airplane News - Airplanes and RocketsIt would be interesting to do a side-by-side comparison on what was considered engineered control line stunt model airplane design in 1957, when this article was written, to what is today considered to be optimal design criteria. I am trying to get back into control line stunt flying and have one model built currently, the Enterprise-E. It has been flown a few times and is (was) extremely sensitive on the controls when set up per the plans. A little bit of control handle movements resulted in a huge amount of both elevator and flap deflection. Fortunately, access to the flap control horn is available through the removable top fuselage hatch, so I was able to relocate the pushrod from the bellcrank to the flap horn, and then from the flap horn...

Lite-Brite by Hasbro

Lite-Brite by Hasbro - Airplanes and RocketsWhen Melanie and I got married in 1983, part of her dowry included some of the toys she had as a little girl. A Hasbro Lite-Brite was one of them. Our kids played with it when they were young, but somewhere along the line during our many household moves, it disappeared. We probably donated it to the Salvation Army at some point - a lot of our stuff has ended up there. About a month ago we started watching for a good one on eBay that didn't cost too much. Finally, there was a 1967-vintage Lite-Brite in like-new condition up for auction that we got for around $45. It has a nice box...

Wild Bill Netzeband's Control Line Capers

Wild Bill Netzeband's Control Line Capers, October 1961 American Modeler - Airplanes and RocketsPer "Wild Bill" Netzenband's report in this 1961 issue of American Modeler magazine covered the Vancouver Bi-Liners, MAC highlights, Alan Nichols' success in Thompson Trophy Racer events, encouraging clubs to adopt the affordable, and slow-flying contests. He addresses backlogged club crest submissions, noting the impracticality of featuring all due to volume. Alan Nichols debunks the myth that models wear out quickly, citing his year-old Nobler and a five-year-old Fierce Arrow with original engine. Memories resurface of McDonnell Aircraft's picnic air shows, where Phil Hamm's reliable metal jet stood out. Southern California's new Control-Line Association, led by John Gudvangan and others, seeks enthusiasts. Detroit's Metropolitan Speed Association unveils an $8,000 Rouge Park speed circle, aiming for a competitive...

Pilots Matter in Age of Autonomous Planes

Why Pilots Matter in Age of Autonomous Planes - Airplanes and RocketsThis article entitled "Why Pilots Will Matter in the Age of Autonomous Planes" appeared in the June 2025 issue of IEEE's Spectrum magazine. "Long after planes start flying themselves, humans will still be in the loop. In August 2001, an anonymous guest posted on the forum at Airliners.net, a popular aviation website. 'How Long Will Pilots Be Needed?' they wondered, observing that '20 years or so down the road' technology could be so advanced that planes would fly themselves. 'So would it really be useful for a person to go to college now and be an airline pilot if a few years down the road they will be phased out by technology?' Twenty-four years later, the basic technology required to make aircraft fly themselves exists, as evidenced by the fact that most commercial flights are flown largely on autopilot..."

Flyin' Jenny Comic Strip: February 8, 1942

Flyin' Jenny Comic Strips: February 8, 1942 Baltimore Morning Sun - Airplanes and RocketsThis is the February 8, 1942, "Flyin' Jenny" comic strip. The Baltimore Sun newspaper, published not far from where I grew up near Annapolis, Maryland, carried "Flyin' Jenny" from the late 1930s until the strip ended in the mid 1940s, so I saved a couple dozen from there. The first one I downloaded has a publication date of December 7, 1941 - that date "which will live in infamy," per President Roosevelt. Many Americans were receiving word over the radio of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor while reading this comic at the breakfast table. I expect that soon there will be World War II themes. "Flyin' Jenny," whose real name was Virginia Dare (what's in a name?), was a test pilot for Starcraft Aviation Factory who divided her time between wringing out new airplane designs and chasing bad guys. She was the creation of artist and storyteller Russell Keaton...

 

 

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