RABE'S NEW BEARCAT!

[Shultzie]

BEAUTIFUL PHOTO OF AL' NEW BEARCAT IN THE PROGRESS STAGES...Al has a new E mail address also which is

alsbearcat-f8f@peoplepc.com

Stuka stunt has told him to hide his e mail so that lurkers like me can not get through to him...but I am certain that Al would not barr any of his fellow grunters from talkin with our stunt grunt guruuu, or would they? hummm?

[Shultzie]

Sorry Al...for the bad photo quality....it would be great if you could resend these to this website where PHOTO QUALITY STILL RULES!

Great if you could post these here so that we could really check out closely all that beautiful detail that is lost in reduction limits of their photo attachments. Poor quality images just do not have to fly...in todays technology.

Hey gang! Send Al an E mail...and check out his new model. 

[minnesotamodeler]

Shultzie, you are incorrigible...remind me never to entrust any secrets to your keeping!!

--Ray

[catdaddy]

BEAUTIFUL PHOTO OF AL' NEW BEARCAT IN THE PROGRESS STAGES...Al has a new E mail address also which is

alsbearcat-f8f@peoplepc.com

Stuka stunt has told him to hide his e mail so that lurkers like me can not get through to him...but I am certain that Al would not barr any of his fellow grunters from talkin with our stunt grunt guruuu, or would they? hummm?

Al may not be to happy when he starts getting slammed with Spam because his email address was posted on a public forum where any whack-a-doo can harvest it. That's what they were trying to tell Al on SSW. I also believe that the email address posted above is his old email address.

Nice Bearcat Al

[Shultzie]

HEY!  SORRY GANG! SECRETS ARE US!!S?P
NOW YOU CAN PLAINLY SEE WHY I WAS BANNED....but when you BEEN BANNED BEHIND CYBER-BARS.

This was the only way that I could respond to our friend Al! "SPAMMMEEEPAMBEE-MEE! THINK i GOTTA P!" AS THE SONG GOES!!!

old donny boy donolddo@aol.com n'' all that jazz.

[Warren Leadbeatter]

You best be careful or you might get banned from here too. 

[Shultzie]

You best be careful or you might get banned from here too. 

WARREN, I HOPE THAT YOU ARE JOKING...SERIOUSLY! U HAVE NO IDEA WHAT REALLY HAPPENED..
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW I FELT WHEN LENNY FLOGGED THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF ALL OF US...BY CLAIMING IT WAS MY FAULT ALONE...THAT HE CHOSE TO BAN ALL EDITING AND IN THAT RESPECT!
DON'T YOU THINK HE TRULY BANNED EVERY MEMBER ON STUKA-STUNT IN THE PROCESS.
TALK ABOUT TERRORIZING HIS OWN MEMBERS..OR WHAT? GET REAL!!!!

[Bill Little]

Don,

Al Rabe said himself that basically he wasn't worried about his email address being posted in the forum.  If he doesn't mind then WHY SHOULD ANYONE ELSE??  There are those, however, that feel that they must protect the world from itself.  So be it, but don't worry about it!

You will not be banned from here for anything you have done so far.  There are several of us who do enjoy having fun and sometimes we get off track.. People have been critsied here for comments that were made to my posts.  But those critisims did not come from ME!  They came from others.  Most of us understand a joke and when some one is just bustion our chops.

We can not get into anything "political", whether it be government or stunt.  We should probably try and stick more to airplanes, and usually it is airplanes.  But, what are the airplane models if we, as humans are not involved??  And since we are involved, it's somtimes good to know abot each other.  It would be pretty boring and die if nothing but a model airplane or something about them, alone, was all that is discussed.

Something has happened that caused Leonard, or whomever, to become very upset, evidently, with Stunt Hanger.  I feel sorry about that, but I don't know what it was ot how to cure it! 

Everyone just seems to need to take a deep breath and enjoy what we have here.

Bill Little <><

[Al Rabe]

Don,

First,  in the 70's we had a great friendship now diminished by distance and the fact that as a retired airline pilot I no longer lay over in Seattle.  Nevertheless,  I have nothing but great memories of our relationship.  It would be great if there were some way to renew it better than e-mail and forums.  If you are ever in this neck of the woods or just passing through, you will always have a bed and transportation here (wife or significant other included).  I just finished an autobiography of my years in stunt.  I don't know why I wrote it.  I will probably be condemned for egotism and wouldn't have dared if I were still competing.  It is liberally sprinkled with cartoons by the greatest modeler cartoonest.  Thanks again, for the cartoons and the warmth of our friendship.

I saw your post in Leonard's topic.  Like Dan, I understand your boisterous enthusiasm and , knowing you, it simply a Shultizeism.  Make up with Leonard and occasionally bring your wit and enthusiasm to Stuka stunt as well as here.

The new Bearcat BBFB is almost finished.  today the painted exhaust stains go on and I'll spend hours trying to hide the many mistakes which only I know are there and mostly wouldn't be notices by anyone standing up to look at the model.  Monday the clear goes on.  I'll let that dry a couple of days before putting the model together.  It may be ready to fly next weekend but who's counting.

I was flying the BBQB a couple of months ago and was struck by the thought "why did I put a 91 in the new BBFB"?  Well they run great and weigh only 25 grams more if the structure is designed to fit.  the problem that I have so far with the 91 in the Critical Mass is finding a good prop.  I'm running a Zinger 16-5 repitched, but long for the efficiency of carbon.  All of the props with blades long enough have too much pitch.  I really love the Bolly 15-4.8 on my Ro-Jett 76's.  It would be really great if somebody made a prop exactly like it only 10% larger in every dimension.

If I ever figure out how to post photos here, I'll come back and stick some on.  Maybe even a few cartoons.

Al

[Mark Scarborough]

Shultzie,,
I havent ever met you, but enjoy your (ahem) sense of humor immensly. I tried to tell em you were not responding the way they interpereted it to be, I tried, sigh, guess thats why I spend most of my time over here now,,,
Hope I get to meet you one day!

[Al Rabe]

Al's e-mail no longer peoplepc.  Now alsf8f*yahoo*com.  thanks,

Al

[minnesotamodeler]

Don,

I saw your post in Leonard's topic.  Like Dan, I understand your boisterous enthusiasm and , knowing you, it simply a Shultizeism.  Make up with Leonard and occasionally bring your wit and enthusiasm to Stuka stunt as well as here.

Al

What we have here, gentlemen, is evidence of a class guy.

--Ray

[Shultzie]

Thanks...Mark and Al and the rest of of all my balsa feathered friends....I never have wanted anyone to feel lessened by any post comments.

 I have always felt that we are all somehow connected in some weird way....be it the addicting smell of paint fumes...or the balsa we breath.
Bottom line:
We share the same passions for model building and things that fly. Whether it be the latest high tech performance full sized stealth phantom-works concept flying machines...beautiful control line stunt models, high performace sport-kites....or mearly quickly folded paper airplanes...or those little yellow Gold finches that are sitting just outside my window that have returned again this spring. With that.....guess we are only as good as the "last post that we rode in here on."
Hummm? This one was fueled by a Bud light at the Tides Tavern here in Gig harbor Wa. where Carol and I just had dinner this eve. Urrrp!  This Bud's fur' you, you, you, and you!

PLUS GANG! YOU CAN TAKE YOUR TIME AND EDIT UNTO UTTERS AS YOU WOULD UTTER UNTO OTHERS..."Biblical or not?" here on Capt. Sparky's great website.

I wish each and everyone of you....a wonderful Easter. May the Great n' Good Lordy take a  liking (not lickin') to ya and the Mustang's or whatevers we rode in her on....n'allthatjazz.

Exiled don
HE HAS RISEN...INDEED!

[Bill Little]

Oh Donnie Boy!  Yo just ain't "right"......... maybe a *little* tetched in th' noggin??  But, then a whole lot of us here suffer from the same affliction!  So you'uns ain't alone there kemosabe!

May you have the Happiest of Easters yet, and to all the same best wishes.

Bill <><

[Randy Powell]

Mark,
>>Hope I get to meet you one day!<<

With some luck, we can drag Donny out to the Stunt-A-Thon this year. Come on Don, it's only a short drive to Puyallup.

[Bill Little]

Al,

I can more appreciate your efforts now that I have a "Classic" Bearcat underway.  The wing was built on hard aluminum rods and is now sheeted.  The basic fuselage is done, and the top shells are awaiting molding.  Haven't made the bucks for the bottom yet!  The tail feathers are done.  This one is actually my son's, and will be powered by a ST G51 (a strong one!) although it's not too late to fit a PA 61!  (would use a 65 but don't have any now.....)

I will eventually get to the one I really want to do...... the later Classic legal Mustang!  And I will follow your advice and use a PA 61 RE on muffler!

Attention to detail is a must, but construction goes well when it's finally visualized.

Bill <><

[Shultzie]

FIRST!
THANKS AL RABE... SO GREAT TO SEE YOU POSTING HERE ON SPARKY'S SITE!

I too,  FOREVER, hold precious those memories from the good ol' daze in Seattle...when I lived in that little apt. from hell...near Boeing Field and on that hill that seemed like it was only only about 50ft below the flight path that you took with that old big orange 727 Braniff airliner of yours.
Those bright landing lights would light up my old apt. like a sunny day and shake those brick walls...like those notorious NW earthquakes from hell. on about a regular basis---morn. noon-n'night!
It was always such a pleasure....when you would call up that you were heading  on a lay-over in Seattle.
 As soon as you hung the phone up...I remember how I could call every stunt addicted grunt in the entire Seattle Tacoma area...where I would set up a quick hanger session at the ol 2nd floor apt from hell.
(I then would  also make  a long distant phone call to Tim Dunlop of Portland Oregon and his son vance....THAT OUR AL RABE WAS COMIN' TO TOWN!...

Tim and Vance...our buds from Tacoma...would drive non-stop from Portland and assend on that little apt. with a batch of newly harvested sea foods...(from the PIKE PLACE market) and I would buy or borrow a bunch of Brew from my Rainier Beer brother in apt 1A below who also worked at the BigRrrrrrrrrrrr!brewwing bottling Co.)
The we let the STUNT PARTY DOWN TIME BEGIN!

Ron would  often would bring cases that he would glean off the back delivery ramp on his way home from his 2nd shift job.) payment from letting him borrow my old BSA or X-6 Hustler for weekend rides with his new girl friend.

 How could I deny him....he was the landlord over all of us...in those days and he didn't mind the paint fume smells or the loud party times that often abounded with passion, late into the nights on a regular basis...plus his gal friend was one really beautiful but scary looking chick who loved so many of us...on a regular basis in those days.

 Hummm? At bit of a risk...but not a bad deal when I think back just how much fun things we had with all those fun toys we used to share  in those early days.

 (Al, if you are lurking, you might remember that Tim was a tea-tottlin' Fire Dept. staff captain at the time) WHO WAS ALWAYS CONCERNED THAT A BUNCH OF US BALSA BUTCHERS, WOULD GET DRUNK AND BURN THAT APT. COMPLEX TO THE GROUND. while celebrating your return to the NW on those layovers.

HEY GANG! A TRUE AL RABE STORY!!
 I will never forget how much time it took to load up those beautiful large scale BEAR CAT'S n MUSTANG'S of AL RABES  into that little 67 sunroofed VW of mine, that Al would borrow on his layovers...(as a bachlor, I had a company car that allowed an extra vehicle..not counting those motorcycles from hell.

I will never forget the story that Al shared with me about one trip, where he was running late to the airport with my old VW from hell...Al grabbed the keys, quickly packed that BEARCAT  of his into the borrowed VW.
 How do you pack a large stunt model into a teeny VW? Just put one wing on the passenger seat...the other wing on the back deck lid seat.
 Being late...he hopped in and quickly took off for the SEA TAC airport...with that big beautiful BEAR CAT rockin back and forth as Al headed toward the airport.

Suddenly OUT OF NOWHERE!!! Al noticed that an ol' lady started pullin' right out in front of the VW! 
QUICK REFLEXES, AND QUICK THINKING, (alikin' to the extensive pilot training perhaps)
WITHOUT SO MUCH AS BLINKIN N' EYEBALL!

AL TURNED QUICKLY OVER HIS SHOULDER...GRABBED THAT BEAUTIFUL BEARCAT OF HIS..WITH BOTH ARMS AND HANDS! 
HAMMERED THE BRAKES HARD, AND BRACED HIS FEET FOR A CRASH!!!
NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT VW OF MINE...due to the C.G. heavy engine in the back...SUDDENLY SPUN THAT LITTLE VW,ROUND AND ROUND LIKE A SPINNING TOP!!!

Because of AL'S LIGHTINING REFLEXES...THAT SPINNING VW!...MISSED HITTING NOT ONLY THAT OLD LADY, BUT ALSO AND FAR AND AWAY MORE IMPORTANTLY....

AL SAVED THAT BEAUTIFUL NEW BEARCAT OF HIS! WITHOUT A SCRATCH ON EITHER THE BEAR CAT, OR THE CAR OR BIG AL RABE!...

I wish I could have seen that scene on video....what a great UTuber that would have made, huh?
BETTER YET!
 AL MADE IT TO THE AIRPORT JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME...FOR HIS BRANIFF FLIGHT LAYOVER!

Everytime I saw one of those brightly colored Braniff airplanes...I felt comfort that those pilots...if they were trained as well as Al, in accident avoidance...then I knew that the flying public was truly in SAFER HANDS!

AL THAT OFFER GOES BOTH WAYS!!! YOU FOREVER, ARE A VALUED DEAR FRIEND IN BALSA AND THE INVITATION TO YOU AND YOURS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME.

Although Carol never has met you...we have been married since 1970 and heard so many of my AL RABE stories...I think she actually thinks you must be some kind of beloved extended family member....AND IN REALITY! YOU ARE! MY BROTHER IN BALSA!

Gads! Do you still have that slide that I took of you holding that FAI Gypsy of Jim Silhavy's and Jim holding that big beautiful scale stunt model of yours, taken at that Motel where a bunch of us flyers  were all staying before heading out to the nats, that next morning? 

Thinking back....I will never forget the looks on the faces....of all those Noblerized purists...who first got their first glimp of those virtual scale stunt models of Al Rabes as they sat in towering over in size in a line up of so many long lean low slung stunt models of those early days!
AND THEN AGAIN...BETTER YET!
THE STARTLED LOOKS on the faces of these same flyers AFTER they saw just how beautiful Al could fly those models....
and yes, again the look on those same purists faces...when they would walk up the the CHALK BLACK BOARD showing AL Rabe's name with some pretty pretty lofty scores posted in glaring white chalk.
The success and innovations that AL has brought to our Stunt Table, without question have truly left a linage of success's that have gone down in the history books...and by the looks of this new model...that Al has posted. It would appear that our brother in balsa...STILL HAS CHAPTERS YET TO BE FULL-FILLED IN THE STUNT HISTORY BOOKS!

Congratulations Al...May your success and contributions continue, today and into the future.
Welcome aboard the Gruntstunt Sooooooul Train~
 ALL ABOARD!!!!

(attached photo is Al checkin out that FAI Gypsy of Jimmy Silhavy.) Al, I wish I could find that favorite old slide of Silhavy holding your model...and you holding his? What made this so funny was the look on Silhavy's face. I caught him in mid sentence with his mouth wide open...saying something about the "wiggleeee-tail" on Al's model? Great daze, huh..Al?

[Dennis Adamisin]

Hey gang,
I know this thread is dedicated to Al's NEW Bearcat, but I cam across a pix of one of the older ones - from the 1970 Nats in Glenview - hope you enjoy...

[Shultzie]

Beautiful shot....Thanks!
I had a chance to fly Al's Bearcat that he used at the Sand Point contest...years ago.
What an amazing takeoff...to watch those large scale like landing gears in action...How beautiful when that tail lifts...as it picks up speed.
I was so extremely impressed just how beautiful his Bearcat grooved the level laps...and just how round one could fly the loops...But the biggest surprise to me at the time...was the first time I flew squares with that beautiful Dark Blue Bearcat with the Eagle talons on the wheel cover plates. I was surprised at how predictable the corners were...although at first I noticed that you had to use considerable more INPUT to the handle, than on my StingRay's to start the corner...but when you gave it that positive turn input....that Bearcat Popped the sweetest and most predictable square corners...one could ask for!
TALK ABOUT A VISUAL PICTURE FROM THE HANDLE...U COULD ALMOST SWEAR THAT WAS A REAL BEARCAT ON THE END OF THE LINES!
LAST BUT FAR FROM LEAST...THE LANDINGS...WOW! MAIN GEAR TOUCH DOWNS....and what seemed like forever for those long gears to allow the tail wheel to finally touch down. AGAIN..WHAT A STUNNING LIFE LIKE LANDING!
 WOW!