Robert A. Benjamin “…drugstore clerk, a commercial clam digger, a seafood restaurant cook, a boiler insurance underwriter, a computer data collection manager, a big-city hospital emergency room clerk, a waiter, a certificated public school teacher, a security guard, a life insurance salesman, a truck driver, a commercial printing production planner, a Civil Air Patrol instructor, […]
The Fairchild PT 19A was one of the most successful of the U.S. Army’s Primary Training aircraft during World War II, and has always been a favorite subject for model builders. I converted this one from an Easy Built Models traditional stick-and-tissue kit designed for rubber powered free flight. In checking my files on this […]
This is my ¼ scale, nine-foot wingspan 1941 Taylorcraft BC-12 D, built from my own plans over a period of several years beginning in 1995. This photo shows my wife Teryl and me with the airplane at TOP GUN 1999, where it was the first electric powered model ever to be included in the competition. […]
The Focke-Wulf FW 190 fighter appeared in combat a few years after the beginning of World War II, not long after RAF Hurricanes and Spitfires decided the outcome of the Battle of Britain against the Luftwaffe’s Messerschmitts. The Spitfire Mk 5 was developed specifically to deal with the 190’s when they began to appear. I […]
The DeHavilland DH 89A Dragon Rapide is the best known of several two-and-four-engined short range transport airplanes developed in England during the 1930’s. Many of the Dragon Rapides built for civilian use were put into RAF service during World War II and referred to as the DeHavilland Dominie. My model represents one of these. Built […]
This is my 1/14th scale (82.5 inch wingspan) C-47 converted from the Top Flite/Great Planes Gold Edition kit of the Douglas DC-3. (The Army C-47 was/is a military version of the civilian DC-3 passenger airplane.) Although the kit is engineered for glow engines, I converted it to electric power using brushless outrunner motors and Lithium […]
This is a Messerschmitt Bf109E built from a Skyshark RC balsa kit intended for glow engines and converted to electric power as the subject of a feature article in Fly RC Magazine. Bf is the German abbreviation for Bayerische Flugzeugwerke . The “E” model (Emil, to the Luftwaffe pilots) was the definitive Battle of Britain […]
The Aeronca Model K is one of the classic American light aircraft of the 1930’s. The “K” is the direct ancestor of the better known Aeronca Champion and Chief airplanes that were popular in the years just after World War II. My “K” was built from my own plans drawings to a scale of 1:4 […]
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