Aircaraft Carrier - pre-war flying/landing developments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoTEojMyLRw

Vought SBU-2 Scout, Bomber, control line plan. 

 

 32" wing span and 26" in length. Article included.

 

 This is a nice set of plans that was once the backside of an old Model Airplane News plan.  I even attached that information up at the top part of the plan.

 

 HISTORY: In 1937 the Navy placed an order for forty additional SBU’s. These were designated SBU-2 and featured the improved Pratt & Whitney R-1535-98 Wasp engine. The SBU’s gradually replaced the SU series in service. However, the airplane never achieved the widespread usage of its predecessors. One reason was that the Navy began the transition to monoplanes in lieu of biplanes, as the SBU was becoming operational. The increased threat of war in Europe hastened the introduction of monoplanes with better performance and improved characteristics. As a result, most of the SBU’s served in stateside training roles, and most were phased out of service in the early 1940’s.

 

File $5.00

This is just one of over 3 dozen plans loaned to me from Richard and Kathryn D. from Alaska to restore, for which I will be eternally grateful for.

 

 

Uncle Willies,
     I have just sent to you by PayPal a payment for the Vought SBU-2
listed on page 28 of your plans listings. I also received the P-38
drawing several days ago from you. They are outstanding.
     A small piece of imformation on the SBU-2 picture you show on the
listing. If you look at the black "duck" on the fus., you'll see that
it's wearing a set of pontoons for shoes. This insignia was used by a
scouting unit from the USS Ranger, then transfered to the USS Yorktown
as VF-42 flying F4F-3 wildcats at the battle of Midway. As a matter of
fact, we'll be having our reunion in Fla.this year.
      Well, enough ramblings. Again, thanks for the outstanding plans,
                                                        Dale XXXXXX   11-8-04

             

     Holy Moley, it would take very little work to change her to RC

             

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Mitsubishi Type 96 (Claude) Carrier Fighter

 

HOBBY HELPERS #162  plans from 1961 

 

   Mitsubishi Type 96 (Claude) Carrier Fighter Model

This is one AWESOME control line plane to build. And at 24" wide paper, your printer could increase the size up to 150% real easy. So you could build a bigger control line model if you wished too?

35" wing span, Fox .29 and a real dropping tail hook for carrier landings. How cool.

History: The A5M Type 96 Claude, the immediate predecessor of the Zero, was never used in combat against the Allies, which makes it a lesser-known type, but it was a spectacular aircraft which gave the Japanese complete air superiority in their operations in China. Of course the type was underpowered and underarmed by modern standards when the Zero appeared, but in initial combat trials, pilots in the Type 96 could routinely win dogfights against pilots in Zeros, even when a rookie in the Claude took on a veteran in the Zero. The Polikarpov I-16 was devastated by it in China.

The "Claude" was the mainstay fighter of the IJN during the early fighting in China. Designed by Jiro Horikoshi -- Japan's foremost aircraft designer of the period -- the Type 96, though a fixed-gear, open cockpit design, was an excellent plane for its day, literally flying circles around anything the Chinese or Russians could throw at it.

 

This  is a high resolution TIFF file containing 200 x 200 dots per inch.

The file will print a sheet 24" x 57".

The magazine article is included.

 

File $5.00  And you where expecting?

               

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Chance Vought OS2U-1

 So thats how it was done?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZYSoqa0M4

 

Hobby Helpers Plan # 555

 

24" wing span, Power .14 to .29 engines.

  

History; U.S. Navy Observation and Recon Aircraft. Also used for spotting, rescue, anti-sub partols, and training. Can be had in both wheeled and float versions, based on ship catapults, shore bases, and at sea with seaplane tenders. Served thoughout WW II, and served with the U.S. Navy, British Navy, Russia, Chile, and others.

This is a high resolution TIFF file containing 200 x 200 dots per inch.

The file will print a plan 24" x 36".

 

File $5.00

  

                               

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Frank Hawks "Time Flies"

    This file will print a sheet 24" x 31"

Frank Hawks "Time Flies" control line plan image with a 27" wing span and powered by an O K Cub .19

I had a request to enlarge this image of a plan from an old magazine. I saved the file just in case. Here it is. Enlarged and ready to print.  Just as I had made it for him.

 Plans have had little work done to them. Plans "as is"

 

Biography for Frank Hawks

 

Frank Monroe Hawks was born March 28, 1897, in Marshalltown, Iowa. He was an early aviation enthusiast and racing pilot. He served in the U.S. Army Air Service in WWI, attaining the rank of captain, and was a flight instructor at Love Field in Dallas, Texas. After the war, he was a professional pilot, setting speed records in experimental and often dangerous new aircraft. He held many city-to-city speed records in the 1930s, and set new transcontinental speed records in 1929 and 1930. Hawks' most famous plane was the Texaco No. 13 Travel Air Mystery Ship. Travel Air built five of these sleek racing planes to secret specifications. Texaco No. 13 was the fourth of five to be built and was purchased by the Texas Oil Company and piloted by Hawks in many races and record setting flights. It differed from the other models in having special instrumentation for long distance flights. Texaco No. 13 now hangs in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Hawks was the childhood hero of many an air-minded youth and supplemented his pilot's pay with all sorts of merchandising and commercial endorsements. He was a paid spokesman for the Marmon Automobile Company. There were at least two fan clubs for Hawks: Frank Hawks' Air Hawks Club sponsored by Post Bran Flakes and Capt. Hawks Sky Patrol sponsored by a radio network in conjunction with Hawks radio show. Club membership pins in the form of a set of wings with Hawks' likeness at the center, are hot memorabilia items. In addition to his radio program, Hawks was featured on gum trading cards and in Big Little Books. In Hollywood, Hawks was cast in a supporting role (as a pilot, of course) in the 1932 feature film Klondike and starred in a 15-chapter serial The Mysterious Pilot in 1937. Ironically, Hawks was killed Aug. 23, 1938, while flying a slow and safe Gwin Aircar.

 

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Grumman F2F-1