Larry Scarinzi's Blitz

I'm trying to track down the two issues of Model Airplane News which carried the construction article for the Blitz and the hot up details for modifying the (just released) Fox 36x. My (rather hazey) memory suggests some time in 1964 or so. Anyone know the exact issues?

It appears in the July '64 MAN, and seems to be complete in that one issue. At least, there's nothing in the August '64 issue regarding the Blitz . . .

However, thanks for requesting the info - August '64 has the Envoy, which I still think is one of the "cutest" C/L stunters ever designed. I've wanted to do one of those for a long time, and maybe now I shall!

Ray;

Both item are in the same article. 1964 MAN July.

Tom - Duluth, MN

I saw the Blitz on the Tawilk36 cdrom along with 200 other published combat planes, haven't figured out how to print them though, any suggestions Tom.

>I saw the Blitz on the Tawilk36 cdrom along with 200 other
>published combat planes, haven't figured out how to print
>them though, any suggestions Tom.

Tom,

I've had considerable success in scaling bit mapped plans by importing them into autocad first as a bitmap (eg jpg). Then pick some item on the image with a dimension. Wheels are good. Autocad has a featute attached to the "scale" command where you can specify a new dimension for a feature on the drawing and the rest is scale up proportionally. It works best if you can scan the original at a very fine resolution. I only have an A4 printer so it means plotting the plan on many sheets, but really you only usually need the fuselage, and wing, tailplane etc. So it's not too difficult. You can always take the autocad file to a commercial printer.

> ... the construction article for the Blitz and the hot(p) up details for modifying
>the (just released) Fox 36x.

To be totally correct, the X motor at the time was still the 35X, and it was a successor model (added nose gussets, deleted second set of needle bearings) to the Blue Ribbon 35X of the year before.

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Kiwi

>> ... the construction article for the Blitz and the hot(p) up details for modifying
>>the (just released) Fox 36x.
>
>To be totally correct, the X motor at the time was still the
>35X, and it was a successor model (added nose gussets,
>deleted second set of needle bearings) to the Blue Ribbon
>35X of the year before.
>Kiwi

Kiwi,

yes of course! I seem to remember that in the article, Scarinzi mentions that the 35x's were dropping crankpins on every second flight so he was running a special stronger "stroker" crank from Fox that also gave a capacity increase, and therefore the 35x would become the 36x in subsequent production runs. My 35x dropped it's crankpin on the second flight (half Blast fuel) which was a matter of considerable frustration because the "blue ribbon" versions in the same configeration didn't, and I already knew that it would happen because the Scarinzi said it would!.

Now I know the issue (it's almost 40 years ago!!) I can get a copy when one comes up on ebay.

Thanks to everyone,
regards Ray

Email me if you want a copy of the article

Ralph