Post your Older books

lla Wed May 01, 2024 3:58 pm

I have this Bunch motor company book
Gregg

lla Wed May 01, 2024 6:30 pm

Here are some more
Gregg

lla Wed May 01, 2024 6:34 pm

Here some more

crankbndr Thu May 02, 2024 10:13 am

GallopingGhostler Thu May 02, 2024 10:26 am

Love the hand drafted engine specifications, @crankbndr .

crankbndr Thu May 02, 2024 1:47 pm

GallopingGhostler wrote:Love the hand drafted engine specifications, @crankbndr .

Wish I could do that. LOL Must have been hard to start with timing fully advanced. YO!!

GallopingGhostler Thu May 02, 2024 2:49 pm

crankbndr wrote:
GallopingGhostler wrote:Love the hand drafted engine specifications, @crankbndr .
Wish I could do that. LOL Must have been hard to start with timing fully advanced. YO!!

Wow, the Dooling used 40% Castor oil in Methanol. Does not require nitro. Not having a Dooling, really don't know. It is interesting that they measure the advance with respect to the points breaking in fractions of an inch.

lla Sat May 04, 2024 8:16 am

Interesting
Gregg

getback Sun May 05, 2024 6:59 am

OVERLORD Sun May 05, 2024 11:40 am

Not a book but AIR-MODELE magazine of February 1947

In 1947, this was only for the happy few. I don't know who else in Belgium or France could be bothered with modelling. People had other things on their mind.

crankbndr Sun May 05, 2024 3:08 pm

In 1963 I was 10, these were on the coffee table every month. I was captivated by the battle between Craig Breedlove in Sprit of America and Art Arfons in Green Monster. At Shell gas stations you could get a chrome plastic model Sprit of America about two feet long and wind up.
I have one NIB one of my collection favorites. What a great time to be a kid!!

GallopingGhostler Mon May 06, 2024 1:28 pm

Aeromodelling by H.R. Warring, 1966. Cover shows Ken Willard's Roaring 20 that was published in June 1962 Model Airplane News https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=1429 and kitted by Top Flite in 1965 https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=12011.

Revco was a pharmacy chain in the 1960's. Book suggested retail was $1.45, Revco's price was $0.49. I was 12 then, had already built Comet 32-in. span rubber powered Sparky, the largest model to date I did. Also had completed a Walt Musciano Scientific 18-in. span stand-way-off-scale Grumman F6F Hellcat full fuselage with vacuformed plastic turtle deck and silkspan covered built-up wing, powered by .020 Pee Wee.

Here's a sample, Pages 126 & 127: