Hi Donaldo,
That's the late Roland Baltes of Redondo Beach, CA. He was a local in SoCal and flew Carrier, Scale and some other events. Later he flew R/C Scale too.
I shadowed him for that whole day you took that shot because he didn't have anyone to launch for him and he asked me. When his flight came up, he asked some adult to launch for him! 
The model hung in the old Jet Hangar Hobbies shop in Cerritos for a long time. I wish I knew what happened to it after the shop closed about 15 years ago.
The model flew quite well, fast but very controllable and of course was throttled so it made nice landings and touch and goes. It had a Super Tigre 40 R/C with a 9x6 IIRC, and I liked how it approached to land with the nose really high, ran around the circle on three wheels and then rotated nose high again to take off.
Thanks for the trip back to Willow Grove.

Chris...

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 Wish I had recorded the name of that amazingly gifted model maker.

Hi Don,

Chris McM has it right about that MiG.  It was built by Roland Baltes who was a great Carrier flier with several designs published and he was also successfull at the national level with a twin Dornier'

I drew the plans for the MiG that Roland Built.  He wrote a construction article with my plans that appeared in the November 1969 issue of American Aircraft Modeler.  Those construction drawings also appeared in the small format used in the Aeromodeller 71-72 Annual.

I have some photographs of that airplane in the air when it was first flown in Dayton, Ohio. but they are small B&W and they will not show up very well.

If I remember, he used a K&B 40 in the front end of that thing.  The original concept was to bury the engine back in the fuselage with a long shaft with universals to drive the prop in front.  Roland chose to make it a bit more simple with the engine in the front.  It took a bit of lead in the tail to get it to balance.  Span was about 25.5 inches and was around 54 inches long.

Keith

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Chris McM has it right about that MiG.  It was built by Roland Baltes who was a great Carrier flier with several designs published and he was also successfull at the national level with a twin Dornier'

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Keith

Oops, I almost got it right about Roland's twin.  It was not a Dornier, it was a Junkers Ju 88.  He was on the US scale team at least once with that model (78 Scale World Championships in England).  He published a constrction article for that airplane in the February 1980 issue of Model Builder magazine.

My apologies to the memory of Roland Baltes.

Keith