MAY 2022 CASEY’S (KC’S) Free Flight BLOG Post

We believe we have an excellent Post for you this month, however apologies are in order for not getting MAY’s Post published until near the end, but as they say, better late than never. Nevertheless please don’t skip over this one and go to June’s! 🙂 June’s op-Ed will be noteworthy because it takes a rather major departure from a normal “Op-Ed” in that it is in an unusual “Op-Ed / Short Story” style format. What is believed to be the first time ever, its subject matter will be the “History of Stooges” that hitherto has never been written before—let alone researched. So stay tuned for a good 10 pages of a “Good Read,” and well worth your consideration & time. : D

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Welcome World Wide GLOBAL AEROMODELLERS and LOCAL HAFFA Members !!!
Did you know about “FLIGHT MAGAZINE”? 🙂 MAY 2022 1
TIME for an Aeromodelling INTERMISSION BLOG BREAK MAY 2022 2
THE LATEST AEROMODELLING TIP – MAY 2022 3
CASEY BALDWIN’S Free Flight Legacy Continues MAY 2022 4
JB Nisley’s “MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE” Closing StatementMAY 2022 5
Don’t MISS OUT on the many Aeromodelling RESOURCES our Website has to offer !!! 😀

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MAY 2022
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Were you aware that there was an “Aeroplane” Magazine devoted to early flight in existence as far back as 1909?
Answer: It’s TRUE!
The name of the magazine was FLIGHT !!! 😀

The magazine is simply called “FLIGHT” and the proof is on sale of all places— a Website on the Internet described as an
“Antiquarian and secondhand
bookshop located in Edinburgh’s Old Town.”

“The listing for this magazine is titled: Flight Magazine No. 1019 (No. 27 Vol. XX) – July 5, 1928 (The Aircraft Engineer & Airships)

Quoting from the description of the listing:
‘Flight’ (now Flight International) was founded in 1909 by Stanley Spooner as ‘A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport’, and is the world’s oldest continuously published aviation news magazine. Flight first appeared on 2 January 1909 as the official journal of the Aero Club of the United Kingdom (later the Royal Aero Club).

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TIME for an Aeromodelling INTERMISSION
. . . . Also Known As a BLOG BREAK !!!
😀 Article by Jeff Renz — with JB’s assistance 2

Click to see “The Legend Of The Bluenose“ YouTube Video

SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS VIDEO ABOUT A FAMOUS CANADIAN TWO MASTED SEAFARING SAILING VESSEL—THE BLUENOSE.
If you liked the above video—you’ll enjoy Bluenose 100. The 100 stands for the Bluenose’s 100th Anniversary! Ironically, there are 100 photos in this video. “I didn’t plan for that, it just happened.” says Fiona Wimber.

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THE LATEST AEROMODELLING TIP – MAY 2022 3

A Solution to How To Dispose of Exacto Blades Safely

Our LATEST AEROMODELLING TIP comes to us from long time HAFFA Member Mike Schmidt. Both Mike and Jeff (JB) Nisley are alumni of the University of Nebraska’s Architecture program. (They surprisingly both enrolled in this same program in the 70s and 80s.)

“We’re no strangers to #11 Exacto blades because we spent a good deal of our waking hours building architectural models cutting building parts out of gray colored chipboard.”

The Use of a Spice Container to Dispose of Used Exacto Blades is our Latest Modelling Tip of the Month.

Using Mike’s Tip—JB decided to paint the spice container in Rustoleum Hammered Spray Paint to help it blend in with the assortment of office supply items and tools scattered about his workspace. Capable of successfully painting plastic parts which incidentally does not need a primer step before hand, is an easy fix to also coordinate unmatched items purchased in a thrift or second hand store. (Often they are made better than now-a-days.) Also plastic storage containers that help organize clutter also benefit from the matching color.

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How to Submit a LATEST AEROMODELLER’S TIP
Use our CONTACT FORM at the bottom of our CONTACT US web page to provide us with your email address so we can set up an email exchange that allows us to obtain the article and the photos you may have that describe your tip. The photos can be simply attached to your email. If you would like—show us a photo of you with your friends showing or using this tip. You don’t have to to live in the United States or be a HAFFA Member to participate. If approved by our staff we will publish your TIP in a future Casey’s BLOG POST. Thanks. Your TIP will be much appreciated !!! 😀
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FREDRIC WALKER (CASEY) BALDWIN.
A FREE FLIGHT LEGACY CONTINUES. — MAY 2022 4

— If you haven’t already checked out our sister Site here is the info we introduced last month. —
Casey was a member of Alexander Graham Bell’s AEA—a group of early Aviation Pioneers. —
To lean more about Casey and the AEA, visit our Sister Site PHOENIX / AEA and specifically the “Into the Air” web page on that site to find out about the AEA and Casey’s significant roll in this Group of Aviation Pioneers. — Note: Both of the above links will open a new tab in your browser because you are going to a different website. TIP: Remember that you can zoom in on the photo above if you choose to view this page in your mobile device a.k.a. cell phone.

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JB Nisley’s “MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE” Closing Statement MAY 2022 5

This month after doing some research on twin pusher models for my upcoming short story I want to direct your attention to an article on the AMA website that showcases the winning A-Frame duel propeller Twin Pusher Don Burnham designed and built in 1929. The name of this article is Don Burnham’s 1930 A-frame pusher.

If I may, I would like to quote directly from this article: “At the age of 14, Donald C. Burnham won the 1929 Junior Division, Outdoor competition, at the 1929 Nats in Detroit. He won a trophy, $200 cash, and a trip to Canada and Europe. Besides these perks, he also published his A-frame pusher design in Carl H. Claudy’s 1931 book Prize Winners’ Book of Model Airplanes.

In all honesty I think Don would not have expected that his design would be “modernized’ in the form of a laser “Short” kit and sold to the general public through something he couldn’t image, that being the Internet. It was I (JB) in 2018 that purchased one of the “Short Kits of his prize winning design in 2018, almost 90 years later and in a new century. From Don’s perspective at age 14 when he won, there were no laser cutting machines anywhere to be found. I think he would have been astounded !!! 😀

One of the reasons I bring this webpage to our viewers front and center is that, just like one of the characters in my fictional short story, Pat A.G.B. Baldwin in 1935 when my story picks up,, would have been aged 15 at the time, almost the exact age as Don Burnham when he won his 1929 championship at age 14. As a “Senior” model builder I sometimes am amazed at how young the model builders seem to be in the photos of that Twin Pusher Era of say 1908 to the early 30s.

My “MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE” for May is an actual quote from the article where I have again included the hyperlink here: Don Burnham’s 1930 A-frame pusher’s article. The publisher of the book in a letter thanks Don for his “kind words regarding the book.” His letter ends with:

“May your next model fly farther and longer than all the rest!”

Author’s Observation: Here is another example of the notion that it is also the distance the plane travels as well as the time spent in the air or “flight time” that was important in judging early contests unlike today where flight time is the only consideration.

DISCLAIMER: Photographs used in this BLOG, the KCFreeFlight.org, and PhoenixAEA.WordPress.com websites are for educational purposes only. There is much we don’t know about the amazing life of Fredrick Walker (Casey) Baldwin. There is a portion of the content on this blog currently and will be in the future that will be purely speculation & guess work on the part of our staff as to the details of his life and things he might have contributed that there is no historical record to ascertain if they could be true or false. In no way are we wanting to rewrite history. A good example of this is that he might possibly have been a great Aeromodeller and built model airplanes. 😀 It will be the sole intent of any speculation or guess work concerning Casey in this BLOG, the KCFreeFlight.org, and PhoenixAEA.WordPress.com websites to be positive and not to harm his legacy in any way but instead inform & educate the public of his contributions to Aviation in general and to the Aeromodelling world in particular. — Signed JB Nisley and Jeff Renz

Thank you for reading our MAY 2022 BLOG POST.
If you’ve become a fan—then tell all your Aeromodelling Friends.
Thanks,
Jeff Renz Blogger/Editor in Chief — & — Blogger/Webmaster JB Nisley

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