Volume Year Month Page In/Out-Door Subject Class Author-Designer Model Name/ ArticleTitle Article Description
XXXIII No.5 1999 May 4 Obituaries Nat Comfort Edward T Packard 1906-1999, J Emmett Holt 1924-1999 Edward T Packard 1906-1999, Founder of Cleveland Model & Supply.  J Emmett Holt 1924-1999 Avid modeler for over 30 years in the east coast area.
XXXIII No.5 1999 May 4 Out- Tapered Paper Fuselage Molds Bob Lipori Rolling Your Own A method of rolling paper to form a round tapered mold of any size for molding balsa wood onto to make tapered fuselage parts for your P-30, Coupe, 1/2A etc.
XXXIII No.5 1999 May 5 Out- Plans Set Pee Wee Bob stalick Pee Wee Class (Cox 020) Spacer Full page picture of a Pee Wee 30 Spacer plans with dimensions included to make your own. Plans available through NFFS plans service.
XXXIII No.5 1999 May 6,7,8 Out- Pressure Fuel System Gas Bob Beecroft Pressure Fuel Systems An article on pressurized fuel system for high performance gas models. The do & don’ts, different  types, and construction of a bladder expandable fuel tank and address where you can acquire all the materials needed to get you flying.
XXXIII No.5 1999 May 8 Out- What's New…     Rubber stripers and CO2 motors What's New…… 1) Rubber strippers from Australia by Charles Leeson, the latest precision tool for striping rubber down to .020” 2)  CO2 Motor by Czech gas master Stefan Gasparin.
XXXIII No.5 1999 May 9 Out- Contest Results F1G, P-30 Bob Thoren MACH             Wintercoupe Contest Wintercoupe contest results, picture and article, held in Pensacola FL, Feb. 14 1999 by the Huntsville Al. MAC
XXXIII No.5 1999 May 10 Presidents Column Bob Stalick Presidents Column NFFS Tax- exempt status OK'd, Time for Pres. &V.P. nominations Items discussed: 1) 501c-3 Status granted (tax exempt), 2) NFFS Scholarship tied into tax exempt status, 3) Officer Nominations, 4) Survey Results coming later by Len Sherman, 5)Mystery model & Mystery plane.
XXXIII No.5 1999 May 11 Korda Speedster Sport Lou Vargo, 1/2A twice the original size Korda Speedster Picture and article on a .049 powered twice the size rubber KordaSpeedster. Nice flyer, no plans available.
XXXIII No.5 1999 May 12,13 In/Out- Plans Set Peanut Davis DA-2A Peanut Class FFS Model (reduced 9% of full size)
XXXIII No.5 1999 May 14 Steam Powered Airplanes Fly?? Hewitt Phillips Could Maxim’s Airplane Have Flown?    An article on weather in 1894 Sir Maxim’s steam powered airplane, producing 2140 pounds of static thrust could have flown.
XXXIII No.5 1999 May 15 Out- Contest Model Timing Lee Campbell Timing is Everything  An article about what is expected from a contest timer, what a timer should know, and what a flyer expects form their timer.
XXXIII No.5 1999 May 16,17,  18 Out- The aerodynamics (nose moment) of mass-launch scale models.   Dick Bennett
 For Scale: WWII mass launch The Shape of a Winner This article is the second (the first was WW I) about the aerodynamics of mass launch scale models of WW II. It investigated two proportions of these aircraft, first the noes moment and the mean chord-to-span ratio. The second article from issues of Flying Aces, Lin Reichell, editor.
XXXIII No.5 1999 May 19 Properly fitted nose block. Gene Smith Nose Block revisited One mans idea and thought on how to make a properly fitted nose block for your model so it can also be used for holding nose weight too. A reprint from the Oct./Nov.Tulsa Glue Dobbers MAC FF news letter, Bob Hanford, editor.
XXXIII No.5 1999 May 19 Stripping tissue from old airframes Reprint from the SCAT Elect. News possibly from Herman Andresen Tissue Stripping One method for removing tissue from your model using acetone or some other type of thinning agent.Reprinted from the SCAT electronic news letter.
XXXIII No.5 1999 May 20 In- Indoor Contest Results Indoor Doc Martin MIAMA Club's Tropicana meet (Possibly the world's highest indoor site-- 231 ft.)  Result of the Miami indoor model club (MIAMA) meet held Jan. 31,1999 in the Tampa Bay Devil Ray baseball teams covered stadium (St. Petersburg FL.) with a roof of 231 feet. Pictures and results.
XXXIII No.5 1999 May 23 Out- Tip.. Careful Cylinder head Removal Gas Bob Beecroft Off with the Head A trick to removing cylinder heads from old engines without leaving plier marks. From the newsletter of the San Diego Orbiteers MAC Howard Huapt, editor.