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Building And Flying Control Line Model Aircraft by Dick Sarpolus Soft Cover
Building And Flying Control Line Model Aircraft by Dick Sarpolus
Soft Cover Stapled
Copyright 1988
64 pages
Contents
1..Control line, why and how
2..Control mechanisms and other hardware
3..Flight training
4..Engines for control line models
5..Aircraft construction: tools, materials, and techniques
6..Kits, kit modifications, and scratchbuilt models
7..Flying the CL competitive events
8..Building four half-A trainers
9. Building three larger CL models
Appendix: manufacturers' addresses, acknowledgments, credits
Of the various ways to fly model aircraft - free flight, radio control, or control line - only control line flying provides a direct connection between you the pilot and your aircraft. You're completely involved with the aircraft's flight and get the actual feel of the plane's power and performance while you command its every motion.
Control line offers a wide variety of flying activity from aerobatics through speed, scale, combat, and racing events. Not much space is required to fly control line models and they can be built and flown inexpensively. For these reasons control line modeling continues to be popular. In BUILDING AND FLYING CONTROL LINE MODEL AIRCRAFT Dick Sarpolus covers the basics of control line aircraft, explains the control mechanism, and shows how to build and fly several different types of control line models. He also covers engine selection and operation, finishing and painting, and gives detailed instructions on how to fly aerobatic maneuvers.
Dick concentrates on models with a profile (rather than built-up) fuselage because these models fly well and are easy to build. He includes information on how to build seven profile models, two of them designed especially for this book.
Above all, Dick wants to share the fun of control line flying with you.
About the author
Dick Sarpolus has been a model airplane enthusiast since he was eight years old. He's built and flown every type of model, aircraft and has been active with radio con- trol and control line models for more than 30 years. He's won more than 100 trophies and has directed a dozen AMA-sanctioned model airplane contests. Dick also enjoys designing model aircraft; more than 50 of his designs have appeared in model aviation magazines in the United States and Europe and a number have been manufactured as kits. Dick says that he wrote this book to introduce others to the fun and excitement of control line flying."
Dick graduated from Lafayette College in 1959 and is employed by the Electric Power Division of the Bendix Corporation. He travels extensively, marketing electric power systems for aircraft.
When he's not on the road, Dick lives in New Jersey with his wife Lynn, sons Rick, 20, and Scott, 16, and daughter Susan, 10. His family enthusiastically supports his modeling and writing activities.
EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT BUILDING AND FLYING CONTROL LINE MODEL AIRCRAFT IS IN THIS BOOK.
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