Gil, et al, (Al who?)
Checked my listings and found:
Mustang1 Al Rabe AAM* Jun 1969 **8 pgs
Bearcat Al Rabe AAM Mar 1970 12 pgs
Mustunr I, II, III Al Rabe AAM Feb 1973 15 pgs
Sea Fury Al Rabe AAM Mar 1973 16 pgs
-1 - This was Al's first published Mustang. I believe the version he flew in the FAI CL WC at RAF Woodvale, UK, in 1978, was a development from it. (Had the pleasure of attending as a spectator, w/family, on leave from US Army duty in Germany.)(Rained a LOT!)
-*- AAM was American Aircraft Modeler, one of the successors to Air Trails. AAM may not have included "scale bars" on the mag plan pages.
-**- When I scan mag articles, I don't crop out the irrelevant text/ads/whatever on the rest of the page. Al Rabe and Ted Fancher wrote at great length more often than not. It's kinda poignant to see the ads for long-gone suppliers, and the prices back then... AND to see how the editors chopped up the article texts to put the maximum number of ad-carrying pages before the readers. .
Deliberate? Oh no, perish the thought.... (Some "jump" pages had as few as 5 or 6 lines of article text...)
It's hard enough to 'composite' the layout of a mag like these; adding the numerous 'jumps' may or may not have made it easier, but it sure increased ad exposure.
What really tears (either pronunciation) me up is the prices, even as ""recently"" as the late 1970's.
Good stuff, anyway.