Half Pint (Louis Garami) 1940

I decided to build Half pint because has clasic vintage lines.



Air Trails (december 1939) review



There´s other version small, called Quarter pint     powered



Here the plan by Paul Denson 1972



Here Steve model builder



http://www.airplanesandrockets.com/airplanes/quarter-pint-apr-1972-aam.htm


I nix both planes to build me version.  

COOL LOOKING GOOD !! Didn't know you were building the model Your way of coarse , What is your power plant ?

I can remember reading about Garami being involved with an oxygen fed Dooling 60 C/L model in the '40s. Went fast.

There was a pic of him and the model from memory.

I have built his Strato Streak, the F/F model with the wing tip fins in the black and white pic here.......It's still here but unflown for a long time.

I just grabbed the Strato Streak kit off the prize table at a FF contest this weekend. can't wait to build it and put a .020 TD on it.

Gossie you must re-flight again your Strato Streak to remember good times and be much younger.

Come on Duke, I hope you build soon the Strato kit.

I´ve a home made motorglider Tee dee .020 powered with old parts of F1A glider, you will see here.



I´ve a big project in mind, build a 1/2 A Satellito of Bill Hunter and mount Tee dee .049 or me Holland Hornet with a new head for Nelson plug that I bought to Daug Galbreath.



AC/DC music is powerful than Holland Hornet.

jmcalata wrote:Hi, I want to make a Tribute to Louis Garami, one of the best piooner model airplane designer.

Here with Cabineer a rubber free flight model airplane.

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Because Garami is a typical Hungarian family name, I browsed the net and found he indeed had started to build model airplanes in Budapest in 1908 when even real size planes hardly flew yet, and he therefore was seen for his hobby as a weirdo...
http://www.brooklynskyscrapers.org/PDFfiles/FO42.pdf

I am not sure when he left Hungary but would assume it took place in WW2 times when an exodus of Hungarians moved west. Was he finally given a US citizenship? (Louis is the French equivalent of Hungarian Lajos so he may as well have immigrated then settled in the French-speaking part of Canada..)

I am proud to have one of my compatriots in the modelers hall of fame (my arbitrary nomination)

Wooow Balog. You are good detective, good date biography. We make the topic together.

jmcalata wrote:Wooow Balog. You are good detective, good date biography. We make the topic together.

Thanks. Since then I read the article behind the web link that I sent and found he immigrated the US in the 1920-s.

Somebody know more aboot Garami? Date of birth ... I remember that he died young. I am sure the if he will know COXvengines he would be happy.

Sorry for me languaje mistakes.

The article says he was schoolboy in 1908 when starting building the planes, so he must have been born at the turn of the 20th century. Given COX's history starting around 1945 he may have been familiar with the early COX engines.

I wish my Spanish were as good as your English...which is quite good, though...but I speak Hunglish so do not take my judgement too authentic.

Well, I begin to show me Half pint.

This photo before cover.



And after cover.



I choose for the first flights indian replica diesel engine of english Mills 1.3



I test some props



And I´ve good resutls with flex plastic white Thimble drome 9x4" used by Tee dee .15



Here fisrt stand stars at me tecnology classroom.

That is a gorgeous plane, and interesting engine.

I wonder if that lady is the school principal (where your technology classroom experiment with the engine running-in was held) and if yes, how long she will tolerate the castor smeared on the school tables?

Je, je, je ... me dear teachers ladies are very tolerant ... imagine the smell of ether.

Keep on

I try to explain ... now ... how ... I thought at first turn my airplane.  



I don´t want to made ailerons in the wing and also I don´t make complex sistem to operate rudders.



Then, I made two elevator and make a mix in the radio to up and down both as elevaitor and turn alternate as taileron.



But I test in the first flights that tailerons don´t work as I hope.

Finally I glue two elevators and add only one operating rudder with a "T" servo arm under horizontal stabilizer.



Each servo move one control surface.



So Half pint turn perfectly.  



               

I am very grateful to the help and advice of my friends

My best friends aeromodellers are older than me, maybe because I like vintage airplanes, sometimes I am sad when they die, but aver I´m happy to have met them.  

And now ....  

Cha ta ta ta chaaaannn

JMCALATA FILM´S



Present:  

Louis Garami tribute - Three first flights of Half pint

Thank You Jose ,You should have been a film maker . Beautiful airplane !! and enjoyed the test flights the only way to find out what you have is to put it in the air . I like the diesel less stuff to carry around to get in the air easy starter . Great Tribute you are a inspiration . Eric

Very nicely presented! Nice plane and nice flying too!!

Keep up the good work!!