{"id":996,"date":"2013-10-11T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=996"},"modified":"2013-10-11T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T17:20:13","slug":"when-you-build-tips-from-the-past-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2013\/10\/11\/when-you-build-tips-from-the-past-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"When you build\u2026 tips from the past, pt. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of yesterday\u2019s (10\/10\/2013) Plans Build Webinar<\/a> and Model Aviation\u2019s<\/em> October issue<\/a> on scratch building, the museum presents some handy building tips, circa 1940.<\/p>\n

The importance of sanding<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"When<\/a>
By: Dick Korda. \u201cHow to Break Records.\u201d Air Trails<\/em>, January 1940, pg. 33.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhen designing and building the model the main idea is to get a well-balanced plane with as little drag as possible.\u00a0 The generous use of sandpaper can take off bumps and rough spots which tend to cut down the average flight.\u00a0 Also, a little time spent in lining up a plane and seeing everything is as perfect as possible will save a lot of time and headaches later on, trying to figure out why it won\u2019t fly properly.\u00a0 Another place where drag sneaks in unnoticed is in the incidence.\u00a0 The amount of drag caused by excessive incidence is usually enough to keep a top-notch model from showing its true flight characteristics.\u201d – Dick Korda<\/a>, January 1940.<\/p>\n

\"Korda's<\/a><\/p>\n

Korda<\/a> certainly knew what he was talking about, as he set a record winning the 1939 Wakefield Cup with a time of 43 minutes and 39 seconds. Here\u2019s his winning model hanging in the gallery.\u00a0 Source:\u00a0 National Model Aviation Museum Collection, donated by Dick Korda.<\/p>\n

Covering your plane<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\u201cWe<\/a>
William Gibson and Francis Beeler. \u201cThe Arrow.\u201d Air Trails<\/em>, December 1940, pg. 43.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe recommend covering the wing with Silkspan as it is light and strong.\u00a0 Cover the bottom of the wing first and be sure that the paper is glued to each rib in order to maintain the undercamber of the airfoil. The grain of the paper should run from tip to tip.\u00a0 Dampen the paper, one half at a time, and place on flat surface with weights until dry.\u00a0 Then do the same for the other half.\u00a0 Dope each half, one side at a time, and weight on flat surface while drying.\u00a0 Do not give the wings more than two coats of dope.\u00a0 This method of weighting the wings, while it takes longer, will insure a flat wing when you are finished.\u00a0 When the bottom of the wing is covered and doped, then cover and dope the top half in the same manner, except that you do not have to glue the papers to each rib.\u201d\u00a0 William Gibson and Francis Beeler, December 1940.<\/p>\n

In what was most likely a coincidence (ha!) an ad for Silkspan just happened to appear on the same page.<\/p>\n

\"Aldine<\/a>
Source: Aldine Paper Co. Silkspan ad. Air Trails<\/em>, December 1940, pg. 43.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Look for more tips from the past each Friday this month.\u00a0 Do you have a tried and true building tip to share?\u00a0 Share it in the comments, or the museum\u2019s Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

p.s.\u00a0 Want to read one of the full articles mentioned above?\u00a0 Order an article reprint!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of yesterday\u2019s (10\/10\/2013) Plans Build Webinar and Model Aviation\u2019s October issue on scratch building, the museum presents some handy building tips, circa 1940. The importance of sanding \u201cWhen designing and building the model the main idea is to get a well-balanced plane with as little drag as possible.\u00a0 […]<\/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":[46,47,107,108,1],"tags":[110,50,109,249],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-model-aviation","category-museum","category-old-magazines","category-tips-from-the-past","category-uncategorized","tag-air-trails","tag-museum-2","tag-old-magazines-2","tag-tips-from-the-past"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}