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NO Meeting MAY 2020 Photos by Gregg Gillham Tony Quist with a Gee Bee, a Gift from John Nansen CHARTERED #921 Since DEC. 1974 President—Lou Pfeifer IV Vice President—John Geyer Treasurer—Oliver Heinen Secretary—Bobbie Santoro The Slow Roll is published by the Sun Valley Fliers by Editor—Bob Purdy and for its membership to all others interested in the building and flying of radio control aircraft. Inside this issue: Cover Photo by Gregg Gillham SVF CLUB ending 45 years as a charter club President Report /N.A Happenings VIDEOS Birthdays SVF Photo by Jones Luke AFB Flyover the valley @3PM Friday Photos by Mr.Jones Vintage Wings Photos by Mr.Poe Zero Field Photos by Gregg For Sale DR, EX, MIX Explained NO Meeting MAY 2020 Photos by Gregg Gillham Tony Quist with a Gee Bee, a gift from John Nansen. An old Byron kit. 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OS 160 twin motor 86" Wingspan AR 6210 receiver OS 160 Twin engine new! 1450 ma LiFe receiver battery Spektrum AR 6210 Receiver On board glow Robart Scale landing gear Scale tail wheel Aluminum spinner Sig Koveral Covering $700.00 Stits Paint Pick up or will deliver in the Phoenix area Dual on board glow (Switch Glo) Sold in as is condition, no returns. 2- 2500 ma LiFe batteries Call Ron Show Quality!! Pick up or will deliver in the Phoenix area 847 602 1360 Sold in as is condition, no returns. $1500.00 Call Ron 847 602 1360 MORE ITEMS IN HAPPENING PAGE Bryce H. & his new Flex Bryce H. & his Edge 540 Bryce H. & his new Flex Jet Dave T. & his Curtis Pusher Kyle P. & Brian Benson Dean Brox & his new Hyperion foamy! Ryan Riveras & family & his new Timber Kyle P. new CARF Extra 330LX Tony Quist Marty new 737 Max The mighty Max with thunderstorms approaching! Marty new 737 Max from Motion RC. 70 mm Yuri H. & his incredible scale handiwork Joe Giammarino Bryce H. & Dave Thielman http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/ articleId/33/Magnificent-Moments.aspx VIDEOS and Websites Links Click on to view video, website SVF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4c5eo_3- y0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK7nWZOR3qw&feature=emb_logo https://theaviationgeekclub.com/b-36-crew-member-tells-the-story-behind-the-video-of-the- infamous-peacemaker-buzz-job-over-fort-worth-neighborhood/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIbXai0l174&feature=youtu.be My thanks to those who passed this info on. Mitsubishi’s legendary A6M ran circles around opposing fighters early in World War II, but by 1945 its odds of surviving a dogfight were close to zero. Stephan Wilkinson Has there ever been a warplane as mythic as the Mitsubishi Zero? Legend, mystery, racism and ru- mor conflated to create an unbeatable fighter flown by samurai-tough pilots. The Zero was said to have awesome perfor- mance, superb maneuverability and combat characteristics an order of magnitude ahead of anything else in the sky. Or, if you believed a different set of legends, mysteries, racism and rumor, it was a flimsy, beer -can tinderbox that brazenly aped Western designs and was flown by short, bandy-legged Asians who wore Coke-bottle-bottom glasses and fled when- ever the U.S. Navy opened a can of Grumman whup-ass. The truth—and how many times have you heard this?—lies somewhere in the middle. The oft-forgotten fact is that the Zero’s effective combat career was measured in months. Not counting its earliest sucker - punch missions over China, when the best-trained fighter pilots in the world swatted down scores of ill-flown Polikarpov bi- planes and open-cockpit monoplanes, the Zero reigned supreme in the Pacific War only from the day of the Pearl Harbor attack until American pilots learned tactics that allowed even pudgy F4F Wildcats to level the aerial playing field during th e Guadalcanal campaign in the summer and fall of 1942. When the second generation of U.S. World War II fighters —P-38, F4U and F6F—arrived beginning in early 1943, the Zero was finished as an effective fighter. In January 1944, a single Ma- rine F4U pilot, 1st Lt. Robert Hanson, shot down 20 Zeros in 17 days. The Zero soldiered on until the end of the war, of course—many self-immolating as kamikazes—but only because the Japa- nese had nothing to replace it, and the Zero often was simply cannon fodder. The June 1944 Marianas Turkey Shoot is the most notorious example of such inequity. Not that the Zero wasn’t still dangerous even in 1945, especially if an aviator was cocky enough to try to dogfight one of the few remaining experienced Zero pilots. Nobody ever built a fighter that could out- maneuver it, and the fact that Grumman developed the F8F Bearcat as a Zero-beater—a task that it was just a bit too late to fulfill—shows that the Zero was never entirely disdained. The Japanese had counted on a short, brutal war—not to annex America as an enormous sushi-loving colony, but to force the U.S. to the negotiating table in order to establish an unfettered area of Japanese exploitation in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. So Japan had done little to prepare for a protracted conflict. Zero pilots were superbly trained, but only hundreds at a time, then a few thousand a year while the U.S. was turning tens of thousands of college grads into pilots; the great ma- jority of Japanese pilots were the equivalent of our NCOs. Nor was the production of a Zero successor given high priority. Much like the German high command initially assumed the Me-109 would suffice for the duration of the war and that it did- n’t need to engineer a successor, the Japanese waited too long to develop and produce the Shiden, Raiden and Reppu. Or perhaps they should have developed just one of them. It didn’t help that Japan, a small island nation with limited engineer- ing and manufacturing manpower, spent its time dithering over the development of more than 90 major combat types as well as several dozen lesser models. By the time they did get serious, raw materials were lacking and the country’s skilled airframe-and-engine workforce had fled the manufacturing centers, bombed out of their homes. The Zero was incrementally improved throughout the war, from the A6M2, the first model to take on American fighters, to the A6M8 (only two built), intended to attack B-29s. The Zero’s excellent Nakajima-built Sakae engine was eventually up- graded by about 150 hp, but it never attained anything like the horsepower offered by the Pratt & Whitney R -2800, the P- 38’s twin Allisons or the P-51’s Packard Merlin. Yes, the Zero’s power-to-weight ratio was always better than that of its U.S. opponents, but sheer horsepower allowed the Americans to loft superior firepower, substantial armor and overbuilt air- frames. What the Japanese needed and never got was not a better Zero but an all-new fighter—a Japanese Hellcat. When the war ended and the Zero stood down, the U.S. was within a week or two of introducing yet a third generation of Pacific fighters in the form of the Bearcat. Imagine a novice Zero pilot forced to confront this Grumman brute. The Zero began the Pacific War with an aura of invincibility. After Pearl Harbor, it quickly came to be viewed as some kind of mystery ship, imbued with strange powers, able to do things no other airplane could. Yet it was simply a well -engineered, straightforward aircraft optimized for maneuverability and flown against an enemy that had never credited the Japanese with the ability to design a cutting-edge fighter. Even though Claire Chennault of the Flying Tigers had sent back to the U.S. reports of the airplane’s capabilities over China, they were ignored, and American aircraft-recognition manuals didn’t even include a picture of a Zero. As aviation historian William Green wrote, the Zero“created a myth —the myth of Japanese in- vincibility in the air….Its successive appearance over every major battle area in the opening days of the war seemed to in- dicate that the Japanese possessed unlimited supplies of this remarkable fighter, and its almost mystical powers of maneu- ver and ability to traverse vast stretches of water fostered the acceptance of the myth of its invincibility in Allied minds. ” Zeros often showed up so far from the nearest Japanese-controlled land that the Americans set out in search of the carrier from which it was assumed they’d taken off.
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