I was browsing in a second-hand book store and came across an old Hard-cover, rather large book on Model Airplanes.
It appears to have been written in England as most of the shots were of guys from England or Europe. This printing was done in China and there was no date in it but the hair-do's looked a few years old. Lots of combat and stunt guys but the first pic in the control-line section showed a blurry guy and an inverted p-51 with quite a large shark's mouth. The caption said,"this is Al Rabe and he is using a special rudder which adjusts when he manuevers for better line tension". The rest of the guys were European. I think it also mentioned a Super Tigre 61? Modified?
I was wondering if everyone or anyone is familiar with the book an in particular whether Al has seen it.
Just curious.
It appears to have been written in England as most of the shots were of guys from England or Europe. This printing was done in China and there was no date in it but the hair-do's looked a few years old. Lots of combat and stunt guys but the first pic in the control-line section showed a blurry guy and an inverted p-51 with quite a large shark's mouth. The caption said,"this is Al Rabe and he is using a special rudder which adjusts when he manuevers for better line tension". The rest of the guys were European. I think it also mentioned a Super Tigre 61? Modified?
I was wondering if everyone or anyone is familiar with the book an in particular whether Al has seen it.
Just curious.
- The World of Model Planes by Martin Hedges, published in 1979 by Bison Books Limited, 4 Cromwell Place London SW7 - ISBN 0 89009 247 8. It is a nice compendium of the model aircraft hobby in general. It contains some color pictures of Euopean stunt models including Somonov's and Plotsin's models at the 1966 WC in Swindersby and this one: