A look at past innovations

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Hi Johnson's innovations in the model airplane engines he designed for Dynamic Models in the 1960s included a bypass port in the piston, a large-diameter crankshaft and an auto-mix carburetor that varied fuel flow rather than air.

Author: DeBolt, Hal
Publisher: Air Age, Inc.
Publication Name: Model Airplane News
Subject: Hobbies and crafts
ISSN: 0026-7295
Year: 1993
Engines

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The Smog Hog

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The Smog Hog is a new design of model airplanes created by Howard Bonner. It features a different bottom airfoil design and inverted flight capability. It allows greater flight performance and increased speed.

Author: DeBolt, Hal
Publisher: Air Age, Inc.
Publication Name: Model Airplane News
Subject: Hobbies and crafts
ISSN: 0026-7295
Year: 1995
Innovations

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More about Branstner

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Branstner was a unique individual as well as a visionary. In 1965, he left the R/C world to design the first 'pickle-fork' hydroplane, developing a fuel-injection system for the Allison engine it used.

Author: DeBolt, Hal
Publisher: Air Age, Inc.
Publication Name: Model Airplane News
Subject: Hobbies and crafts
ISSN: 0026-7295
Year: 1992
Appreciation, Biography, Design and construction, Branstner, Dick

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