The next monthly meeting for Capt. James J.

McKinstry Chapter IPMS/USA

Friday, AUGUST19, 2016 – Paul Gasiorowski’s home

Meeting starts at 7:30 PM

Meeting theme for AUGUST is D-Day/ Armor

No Program this month!

THIS is our 45th year as an IPMS/USA Chapter

Club Officers

Norris Graser President Dan Paulien Vice Pres./Program

Mike Hanlon Secretary/Treasurer Paul Gasiorowski Chapter Contact

The Newsletter Editor Frank Ress McWeb Master

PG 1 Meeting notice PG 2 Meeting Dates & Themes PG 2 Event Calendar PG 3 July models Theme Innovators PG 6 Northern Illinois Airshow previewPG 8 Info / Images Northern, Illinois Airshow PG 9 THUNDERCALS PG 10 Flight Test History Bell X1D PG 11 Chuck Norris photo

We now have meeting dates through Aug 2017. They can be found on the next page. Please note that just one evening will be held in the Hendricksen room. All of the rest are in conference room I. In addition, meeting night themes have been added. A the new themes are starting from Jan 2017, they are not set in stone = so if you have a suggestion, I am open to it through the August meeting.

McWebsite: https://ipmsmckinstry.wordpress.com/

.DATE CHANGE from AUGUST 27, 2016 to AUGUST 19 at Pail Gasiorowski’s home

Monthly themes 2016 Jan 29 Land of Lincoln ANYTHING LINCOLN ANYTHING ILLINOIS, Feb 26 Meteor Showers; ex. Comets, Starfire, Shooting Star Mar 25 Boat Nite; Ships, Subs.. Aircraft on floats Apr 8 Knife Fight – X3 Stiletto, Sabres, Cutlass (car or plane), Le Sabre, etc May TBA Republic Nite Jun 3 Night Nite: Skynight, Night fighters. Black Ops. Secret hush hush…. July 8 Innovators: Anything history changing; ex. Wright Bros, Spirit of St Louis Aug 19 D-Day / Armor MEETING at Paul Gasiorowski’s home Sept 23 ROOM I ODD ball weapons Oct 21 ROOM I ADC Air Defense Command Nov 18 Radial engines post WW II ROOM I DEC TBA Holiday Party

JAN 20 2017 Hendricksen Room Prop jobs & ships: Korean War Feb 17 ROOM I South of the border/ South America

Mar 24 ROOM I Winter Warfare- anything in winter camouflage

April 21 ROOM I ACES HIGH – Any ace, May 19 ROOM I In line engines WW II June 16 ROOM I Radial engines WW II July 21 ROOM I Unusual aircraft, vehicles, ships

Aug 18 ROOM I Trash haulers – cargo planes ships, vehicles

August 3-6 • Columbia, SC IPMS/USA National Convention being held at 1101 Lincoln Street and hosted by IPMS/Mid-Carolina & IPMS/Piedmont Scale Modelers. See website at http://www.ipmsusa2016.com for more info. August 7 • Crystal Lake, IL 9th Annual GTR Summer NNL Contest & Swap Meet. Theme: TV & Movie Cars Subtheme: 50 years of CanAm Racing being held at the Algonquin September 10 * Waukegan, Illinois Northern Illinois Air Show Waukegan National Airport Hhttp://www.northernillinoisairshow.com/eld

September 25 • Wheaton, IL 68th Illinois Plastic Kit & Toy Show sponsored by Past TimeHobbies and being held at the DuPage County Fairgrounds.Call 630-969-1847 for more info. October 15 • Wausau, WI The Glue Crew 2016. Contact Joseph Drew at jdrew09@charter.net for more info or see website at http://calendar.ipmsusa3.org/event/glue-crew-2016-0 October 21-23 • Schaumberg, IL The MMSI Chicago Show being held at the Schaumburg Marriott Hotel November 12 • Darien, IL IPMS/O’Hare info, contact Chuck Herrmann at gtrchab@yahoo.com

Lee Lygiros

Bell X1 Revell 1/32nd scale Mike Hanlon

A6M-5 Zero Tamiya 1/48th scale Mike Hanlon

Ki-27 Nate Hasegawa / Mania 1/48th scale

Modified cockpit including wiring the

instrument. Modifications were made to the

empennage. For extra detail Lee put is a

piece of wood on the seat that Chuck

Yeager had to use to close the canopy,

since his shoulder was injured in a late night

horseback ride.

Aeromaster Decals,Tamiya Mitsubishi

Green and Grey

Tamiya IJA Grey Kit decals

Steve Kumamoto

P-43 lancer Rare Planes 1/72nd scale

P-47N Johan 1/72nd scale Built 40 years ago. Lengthened the wings 18” modified wingtips. Modified the prop from asymmetrical to symmetrical 13’ blades.

P-47M Airfix 1/72nd scale This was built from the Airfix P-47D razorback 45 years ago (Were no bubbletops in 1/72nd at that time.) Scratched or highly modified: Spine, cockpit interior, engine crankcase

Vacuformed kit. Scratch built interior and landing gear

Vacuformed canopy. Scratch built the dorsal fillet. Aluminum foil used to replicate the nmf.

Modified prop and canopy. Scratch built air and oil intakes + detailed landing gear. Steve was inspired because an IPMS chapter made P-47 decals and thought to include an M – even though no kit was available. Markings for 63rd FS /56th FG

James Batchelder

F-15C MSIP II Great Wall Hobby 1/48th scale Model Master Paints, Bullseye Decals 144th FS Paul Gasiorowski

USS Nautilus, Lindberg 1/300th scale Just a total of 20 prts including the two hull halves and deck planking. Overall flat black with nonskid deck in dark gray.

Vickers Vanguard Airfix 1/144th scale. Used MicroMark Mask for the windows. A straight forward build, most time spent on masking for painting!

Jim liked this one a lot. The only issue he found was that the canopy clear could have had more of a base on the rail. Not much to align it to.

Modified the diving planes to fit against the hull. Conning tower consists of 9 periscopes and antenna. Decals from the “spares” box

Primed with Tamiya Lt Gray followed by Model master Acrylics and non-buffing Aluminum metalizer.

Northern Illinois Airshow

Norris Graser

The annual airshow held on September 10, 2016, formerly known as Wings over Waukegan, has been restructured and now known as Northern Illinois Airshow. This year’s event will be a 1 day affair on September 10th. This is an easily accessed event, opening to the public at 9:30 am. Plenty of static aircraft including various warbirds. A great opportunity to talk to the airmen and / or get those detail shots for your next model build. Flying starts at noon and goes nonstop until 4PM. For photographers, there are plenty of good opportunities for taxi and action imagery. A big problem with many airshows is the fact that the flying is backlit, making really good pictures harder to come by. Not so much at Waukegan. The sun is at your back for at least 2 ½ hours before the sun crosses the runway. Even then, good pictures can be had by paying attention to the aerobatics. Those bringing SLR digitals with 300 to 400mm lens will fare the best. However, there are plenty of good take off / landing and taxi shots for those with “point n shoot” equipment. OR, you could just bring a lawn chair and enjoy the show! Various types of aircraft will be performing including aerobatic planes and warbirds from various era. Many of the aircraft will be supplied by the Warbird Heritage Foundation located across the runway from the show. For WW II buffs, the P51D Baby Duck and a TBM Avenger will perform. Those into jets can look forward to an F-86E Sabre, A-4B Skyhawk, L-39 Albatross, T-33, T-37 and T2 Buckeye. At this time, no modern active duty military a/c are scheduled. Go here for the Northern Illinois Airshow website: http://www.northernillinoisairshow.com/

Below is the tentative schedule as of August 14

Quad City Skydiving Jumpers

North American T-28 Missing Man Formation

North American T-28 Trojan

Pitts S1S (Dave Scott)

Aero L-39 Albatros (Hoppers)

Parade of Trainers - Boeing Stearman, Cessna L-19 Bird Dog , North

American T-6, Beechcraft T-34 Mentor, Yakovlev Yak-52, Nanchang CJ-6

Extra 300 (Mike Vaknin)

Yakovley YAK -52TW (Aerostars Team)

Douglas A-1 Skyraider (2 Skyraider)

Boeing Stearman (Susan Dacy)

Jet Parade- Aero L-39 Albatros, Cessna T-37 Tweet, Lockheed T-33 Shooting

Star, North American (Rockwell) T-2 Buckeye

Grumman TBM Avenger

North American P-51 Mustang "Baby Duck"

North American F-86 Sabre

Douglas A-4 Skyhawk

Legacy/Heritage Combo Flight, TBM,A-4,P-51,F-86

A few images from prior Waukegan

shows Photo’s by The

NEW T-004 1/48th P-47D Thunderbolt Razorbacks PTO Part 4 19th and 333rd FS/ 318th FG Pineapple Air Force. 2 decal set available from Thundercals@yahoo.com or ngraser@comcast.net $22.00 + postage PayPal or Money order. Dealer inquiries invited.

This week in flight test history

412th Test Wing Public Affairs

July 29, 2016 EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — July 24, 1951 — The Bell X-1D made the first, and the only successful, flight of its career when it was air-dropped from an EB-50A mothership (s/n 46-006) to make an unpowered glide to the Rogers Dry Lake Bed. Jean “Skip” Ziegler was the pilot. The X-1D was the first of the second-generation X-1 rocket research planes to be completed and it was intended for heat transfer research. (Edwards History Office file photo)

Bell X-1D

s/n 48-1386

From Joe Baugher’s site:

The first of the second generation of supersonic rocket planes. To be used for heat transfer

research. Assigned to NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station, Edwards AFB, CA.

On Jul 24, 1951 the X-1D was launched over Rogers Dry Lake, on what was to become the only

successful flight of its career. The unpowered glide was completed after a nine-minute descent,

but upon landing, the nose landing gear failed and the aircraft slid ungracefully to a stop. Repairs

took several weeks to complete and a second flight was scheduled for mid-August. On Aug 22,

1951, the X-1D was lost in a fuel explosion during preparations for the first powered flight. The

aircraft was destroyed upon impact after it was jettisoned into Rogers Dry Lake from its EB-50A

mothership.

Via Jeff Rankin Lowe

And then there’s this…

Notes compiled by Paul Gasiorowski

Newsletter & images (Except Bell X1D) by The