{"id":554,"date":"2013-03-20T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=554"},"modified":"2013-03-20T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T13:45:15","slug":"madman_yates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2013\/03\/20\/madman_yates\/","title":{"rendered":"Madman Yates and his Madman model"},"content":{"rendered":"

The museum portion of April’s Model Aviation<\/em> “In the Air” column looks at J.C. Yates<\/a>\u2019 Madman\u00a0CL Aerobatics airplane\u00a0that is in the museum collection.\u00a0 There wasn’t enough room in the column to share all of the information related to the model, so it is shared here in a \u201cdeleted scenes\u201d type format.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The original Madman was built and flown by Yates in 1947. The model in the collection is not the original, but a later Madman model built by Yates in the late 1950s.You can read the column in MA<\/em> at this link<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Donated by J.C. Yates in 2000, his Madman is on exhibit in the Control Line Aerobatics exhibit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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J.C. Yates wanted the best performance possible for the Control Line models he designed.\u00a0 After all, he was pushing them to their limits \u2013 loops, inverted flight, figure eights and more – each time he flew.\u00a0 He needed an engine and a propeller that could keep up with him.\u00a0 To this end, he teamed up with engine manufacturer Henry Orwick in 1947.\u00a0 The propeller they designed and manufactured has a wide blade that is narrow at the hub, flares out at mid-point and then narrows again at the tip.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"J.C.<\/a>
A front view of the Madman, showing the Orwick .64 engine and the Y&O prop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although they were developed specifically for Yates\u2019 stunt aircraft, Y&O props quickly became popular for use on both CL and FF models.\u00a0 A museum volunteer commented that not only did the Y&O propellers fly well, but they also looked nice.\u00a0 These qualities help them remain popular today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A close up of the Y&O logo on the prop blade of the Madman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\nYates\u2019 model airplane designs are well-known for not only flying well, but also being pleasing to the eye.\u00a0 None of his models were just a \u201cflying box\u201d like some previous CL Aerobatics designs.\u00a0 The quality aesthetics were influential in later stunt models, but can most directly be seen\u00a0in the\u00a0lines of the rudder and fuselage of\u00a0\u00a0Bob Palmer<\/a>\u2019s Thunderbird.\u00a0 Bob Palmer and Yates were good friends.<\/p>\n

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Bob Palmer’s Thunderbird II on display in the Control Aerobatics exhibit, donated by Bob Palmer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\nWhen asked how the Madman flew, Bart Klapinski remembered that it was a bit heavy, as all airplanes of that time were, since it had to carry the battery to start the engine.\u00a0 He also said it flew well, and he didn\u2019t have problems performing any of the maneuvers.\u00a0 He did note that it didn\u2019t fly as well as modern designs.\u00a0 Klapinski enjoyed flying it so much that he built his own Madman model, which he flew for 20 years and won 3 VSC Old Time Stunt events.\u00a0
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\nThe Madman design was kitted circa 1948.\u00a0 Advertised as \u201cThe Best Model Value in the Country” by Burbank Manufacturing Co., the kit included some great new features.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cNew type leather fillets,\u201d \u201cDiecut ribs,\u201d and \u201cPrefabricated inverted flight gas tank\u201d are some of the fourteen features listed on the box.\u00a0 It should be noted, though, that while the gas tank might have been prefabricated, it wasn\u2019t pre-assembled.\u00a0 Much like the aircraft, the pieces were there, but you had to put it together yourself.<\/p>\n

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Madman model airplane kit, Johnsonbuilt by Burbank Mfg. Co., c. 1948. Kit donated by Richard Kortum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many, many thanks to Charles Mackey<\/a>, Bark Klapinski and Bob Whitely for taking the time to share their memories of the Madman and J.C. Yates with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The museum portion of April’s Model Aviation “In the Air” column looks at J.C. Yates\u2019 Madman\u00a0CL Aerobatics airplane\u00a0that is in the museum collection.\u00a0 There wasn’t enough room in the column to share all of the information related to the model, so it is shared here in a \u201cdeleted scenes\u201d type […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,47,1],"tags":[56,11,89,50],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-control-line-2","category-museum","category-uncategorized","tag-artifact","tag-control-line","tag-madman","tag-museum-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}