Author Topic: Some old photos (to me anyway) (Read 4515 times)

Matt Colan · « **on:** April 10, 2010, 03:00:32 PM »

Yesterday, I figured out how to scan pictures into the computer, so I thought I'd share some.

Pictures will come in groups of 5

Pic 1: Don Herdman's silver green Nering
Pic 2: Don Herdman's Nering, with his dog Champ that has since passed on in the top picture
Pic 3: Don Herdman's own design Starfire being converted to a piped plane
Pic 4: Vic Macaluso's second SV-11
Pic 5: Billy Suarez' Patternmaster

Matt Colan · « **Reply #1 on:** April 10, 2010, 03:01:51 PM »

second group

Pic 6: Somebody's airplane called Super Quickie
Pic 7: Windy's Tigercat
Pic 8: Dave Midgely's Carnivore
Pic 9: Windy's Tsunami and Bob Lampione's United
Pic 10: Windy's Cardinal, also called the Tweener

Matt Colan · « **Reply #2 on:** April 10, 2010, 03:03:19 PM »

Last group of photos

Pic 11: Don Herdman's SV-11
Pic 12: Don Herdman's Olympic
Pic 13: Don Herdman's P-51 Mustang
Pic 14: Joe Adamusko's Spitfire
Pic 15: Don Herdman's F-14, and Vic Macaluso's F-14

john e. holliday · « **Reply #3 on:** April 10, 2010, 04:15:57 PM »

Looks like the scanner is doing a good job.

Randy Powell · « **Reply #4 on:** April 11, 2010, 08:48:14 AM »

The Super Quickie is Mike Alimov (sp?)

Randy Ryan · « **Reply #5 on:** April 21, 2010, 08:23:35 PM »

Quote from: Randy Powell on April 11, 2010, 08:48:14 AM

The Super Quickie is Mike Alimov (sp?)

Yup

Bill Little · « **Reply #6 on:** April 23, 2010, 07:20:58 PM »

I remember the Tweener from the Vincennes/Lawerenceville NATS in 1993. First time I met Windy.

Big Bear

wwwarbird · « **Reply #7 on:** April 24, 2010, 10:40:45 PM »

Nice pics Matt, thanks for sharing. In the first group, what's the grey Navy plane in the upper right corner of the Patternmaster pic? Any other pics of that one?

Matt Colan · « **Reply #8 on:** April 25, 2010, 06:08:31 AM »

Quote from: wwwarbird on April 24, 2010, 10:40:45 PM

Nice pics Matt, thanks for sharing. In the first group, what's the grey Navy plane in the upper right corner of the Patternmaster pic? Any other pics of that one?

That navy plane was Vic Macaluso's Crusader. I have one other picture of that plane, and here it is...

Shultzie · « **Reply #9 on:** April 25, 2010, 10:10:09 AM »

VICTOR'S TALENT IS TOTALLY AWESOME!!! LOVE THAT WING PLATFORM!

Matt Colan · « **Reply #10 on:** April 25, 2010, 10:39:20 AM »

Quote from: Shultzie on April 25, 2010, 10:10:09 AM

VICTOR'S TALENT IS TOTALLY AWESOME!!! LOVE THAT WING PLATFORM!

According to what grandpa said, Randy Smith told Vic how much to drop the wing for vertical cg. We have his F-14, and it is finished beautifully, I wish I could've seen the Crusader, and I've seen one of his SV-11s.

Vic now is flying RC jets, and at times, grandpa and I think of a way to get Vic back into CL...

Bill Little · « **Reply #11 on:** April 25, 2010, 12:22:39 PM »

Some day I will just HAVE to build one of Vic's Crusaders. Either the first .35 sized one, or the second piped one. The first one is Nostalgia30 eligible, so it might get done....

Big Bear

wwwarbird · « **Reply #12 on:** April 26, 2010, 12:03:12 AM »

Man that thing is really cool! Thanks again for the great pic Matt. There's a .35 size one huh?

Bill Little · « **Reply #13 on:** April 26, 2010, 02:59:56 AM »

Quote from: wwwarbird on April 26, 2010, 12:03:12 AM

Man that thing is really cool! Thanks again for the great pic Matt. There's a .35 size one huh?

Hi Wayne,

Vic built his first Crusader in 1970. It was part of an article in a 1971 AM with Bill Suarez's F-4. It was Fox .35 powered, but Vic later said the engine was worked on by one of his speed buddies (or something like that! LOL!!). He built the piped verson using SV 11 wing, moments, etc., just kinda *upside down*.

Bill

Tom Niebuhr · « **Reply #14 on:** April 27, 2010, 08:12:02 AM »

Just crossed my old mind.. MAN had two stunters in the great issue (Bill's and Vic's). Now MAN is completely divorced fropm CL and MA appears to be doing the same. The current issue of MA can be read in5 minutes. We are lucky to have SN, which takes a few days to read.

Robert Organ · « **Reply #15 on:** April 27, 2010, 09:07:59 AM »

Tom, The unfortunate reality of this is as usual, money! I am a long time subscriber to MAN as well as most of the model aviation mags, I think the problem is advertisers and unfortunately, there just isn't much if any from the cl segment of the hobby, if you have seen any of my postings, then you know that I am one of the older modelers(68) who has flown RC for years and decided to include cl (which I did from about age 8 in the early fifties until the late sixties when I built a Heathkit GD19 radio and left cl for RC) SO, to make a long story short, if we can generate a little more interest from the younger generation, maybe the advertisers will come and the magazine articles will follow. I started subscribing to Flying Models a few years back and begin to realize what I had been missing, so here I am, just finished a scratch built Ringmaster and looking forward to the good times and friendships ONLY this facet of model aviation can bring. I really wish more would try it, they don't know what they are missing! Bob

Bob Hunt · « **Reply #16 on:** April 27, 2010, 11:47:25 AM »

Actually Bill's Phantom and Vic's Crusader were in the same issue of American Aircraft Modeler magazine... not MAN!

Later - Bob Hunt

Tom Niebuhr · « **Reply #17 on:** April 27, 2010, 12:25:14 PM »

Bob,
Whoops you are right. I was thinking of Bill's P-38 which was in the MAN April 1966.

It is still a shame that only FM caters at all to CL and they seem to be in trouble.

It just seems that MA is catering to $15,000 jets, 1/4 scale, high end pylon etc. I guess that is where the advertising money is coming from, but I don't think that even the majority of RC people can afford them.

Robert Organ · « **Reply #18 on:** April 27, 2010, 01:36:46 PM »

You got that right, cl overall is usually less expensive and complicated than rc and a great way for someone young and interested in model aviation to get started in this great hobby! I have seen many people spend an awful lot of time and money to get started in rc, crash right off the bat, and totally lose intrest. What a shame! Bob

wwwarbird · « **Reply #19 on:** April 27, 2010, 07:56:22 PM »

C'mon guys, let's not turn this one into another MAN rant. Sadly, we all know here that even talking about MAN anymore is a waste of all of our time, and money.

Robert Organ · « **Reply #20 on:** April 27, 2010, 08:27:58 PM »

Hi Wayne, I never intended my posting to be a rant, I can't blame the magazines if there is no cl advertising, we just need to try and generate more interest in cl and hope things get better. As I said earlier, cl is where it all started for a lot of us and those that haven't (or won't) tried it are just missing out in my opinion. Bob

wwwarbird · « **Reply #21 on:** April 27, 2010, 10:45:58 PM »

No worries Robert, I didn't say that it was. I just said let's not turn Matt's thread into one. More often than not anytime someone mentions MAN that's what it turns into, I've been guilty of that one myself.

Wayne J. Buran · « **Reply #22 on:** April 28, 2010, 07:06:32 PM »

Quote from: Matt Colan on April 10, 2010, 03:01:51 PM

second group

Pic 6: Somebody's airplane called Super Quickie
Pic 7: Windy's Tigercat
Pic 8: Dave Midgely's Carnivore
Pic 9: Windy's Tsunami and Bob Lampione's United
Pic 10: Windy's Cardinal, also called the Tweener

I believe those pictures are from Brodak fly in, if so the Super Quicke may have been Mike Alimov's
Wayne

Jim Pollock · « **Reply #23 on:** April 29, 2010, 09:00:59 PM »

In June 2003 Vic and I were flying at Brodak's. We were in the pits together. The finish on the Spitfire was something to behold! You could shave in the reflection from the wing! I'm quite sorry to hear that Vic is flying planes with little boxes.

Hopefully he'll get back to CL sometime?

Jim Pollock,