West Rutland High School - Green and Gold Yearbook (West Rutland, VT)

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To carry on a conversation with one of these so-called people is a thrill that rones once in a lifetime. All walks of life have their ova vocfbulary, but none is as colorful as thrt of the model ian. Uno ray rin up to you and tell you that he took ffV tue Hpentsu and gained five miles-per-hour. You may think he is ready for the Hmen in the white coatsu but he really only means the wheel pants on his plane. If one should ask you, HHow's the Soitfire?H don't say anything about your wife because he doesn't mean her. It's a model motor he is talking about. HMr. Mulligan sure has a hot head It's something awful to see him That last sentence isn't iossio. ring to a olane motor anduproou. tear around after a high balf The model fan is just refer 5ut all oeoole do have a few words in common sued us, rig-c nig-jig, thiHI'U-M9-HGH do-dat, and what-yuems-call-it, which seem to round out all vocabularies. On the day he is supoosed to go flying, a BRLSA BUTCHHR, arises at 3:30, nroos two toothbicks under his hervy eyelids and has a bits to edt since once he is on the flying field, all his time will be occupied by his planes. After eating he collects his equipment--clones, boosters, tool yes, jas. hany a model builder finds he can cones to fill his gas tank with the one can on five or ten miles away. At h:30 o car arrives running boards with men, tools, and oquioment chest, snd,oh blush when he his workbench packed to the for flying. A peek into our fricnd's tool chest would be an adventure. In it you would find everything from a tachometer jack-knife. At 5:00 the troupe arrives at to a Boy Scout the field and starts to unload. These fellows are free flight fans, so the planes are all assembled and our friend scams to be having trouble. Ho flips the Hproon and gets a cough, sput, bang, pop! Is he disgusted! New as the sun pushes its way up in the east, the thor- mals Cwsrn updrsftl come to life. If a free flight model get caught in one of these, it's liable to go 0.0.3. I .out of sightl. Most planes are fitted with dothcrmolizers ' which will send a ulane down st the end of s certain length of time but they don't always work. Those planes climb until the mo tor stops and then descend in a circle. The motor run is ad justcd by a timer in the plane. Our friend's motor is new running since he has removed the dirt from the needle valve. One of the fellows with a stan. watch is called over and we are ready for c fli5ht.Thc signel'is given, the plane is launched, and it starts to climb into the wild blue yonderg but not vary far. After two seconds the motor conks out.' When our BLLLA BUTCHYH tries to start the motor again,-it won't start. New the mechanical genius of the.buildor cones out. First the motor comes out of the ploneg than the dissection connecting rod, cylinder cr nk thft thc motor is ell eport starts. Hells,'gaskets,gtiston shfft, Prd book pl'tc. New the disturbfnce is found 'nd corrected. Agcin tha motor! sputters ond pops. Why, This yearbook was digitized by volunteers from the

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and multiplies the usefulness of every resource. It is no fragile thing, but s most virile and enduring professiog.Des- pite all hardships, sacrifices and obstacles one must over- come, nursing is s great profession and should give s defiq nite sense of sstisfsction to esch and every individual in it. Marie Wasik BALSA BUTCHER Picture, if you will, s hot sunny day with no clouds or breezes. This is the kind of dey you look for the coolest pert of the house and just went to take life easy oven if it is only for s little while. But not all people share the same ideas. There are model fans, who on s dey like this, pack up their equipment end flock to the ogen field where they will enjoy themselves for the whole deg, usually. You may wonder who would venture out into this 98 heat. Well-- he calls himself s HBALSA BUTCHERN. You may? wonder what s HBALSA BUTCHERH is. Well, he is s model airplane builder and flyer. I sm one of many of these NBALSA BUTCHURSH. Paradiso to him is the smell of burning menthenol, the high-pitched scream of the ultra small motors of the .ou5 cubic inch disilscement, or the deep roer of the .soo cubic inch Hmonstsrsu. He loves the sight of a free-flight model, drifting lssily in end out of the thermsls st an sltitude of nesrly 500 fuet. He thrills et the sight of s shiny, sleek, speed model traveling at close to 100 miles-per-hour. There are also those who like thc sight of s control-line model doing, serobstics such as power dives, inverted flight, wing- overs, vertical B's and horizontal 8's. The model builer lives in 9 world of miniature nzronsutics. The model builder is easily distinguished by his bat- tered fingers Cwhich many times have been caught in Hpropsn doing between 15,000 and 20,000 revolutions per minutel, dope stdinedfelothcs,blood shot eyes, upturned visor on his cspg and oil-smeared rags hanging from his beck pockets. Uhen someone mentions models his eyes light up like extra-hot glow plugs. The only figures he is interested in are those in the miles-por-hour column or in thc seconds of flight time. NOW that YOU know more about him you may wonder whore you can find one of these HEight Wonders of tho Worldu. The first stop is to find s dark, damp, dingy, ill-lighted, odor- filled cellar. The fumes you see floating around will be those of monthenol, dope, castor oil, and many unknown sub- stsnces. In one corner of this nest you may find s work- bench' covered with scraps of balsa, torn plens, empty .gas csns, broken knives, and other equipment. If you find whst is mentioned above, the builder is sure to be somewhere nearby. Rutland Historical Society and the Rutland Free Library.

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shouldn't it? The rotnry vslvs is in backwards ond c gasket hos- rain loft out! The time is now 0:00 s.V. Again tho moi tor is started and it purrs liko a six months old kitten. The plan: is again lsunchod into the wild bluc gondor, and this time it climbs, climbs, climbs, sri climbs. biqbor and higher and - PHE thc timer wasn't sot and tnorc is s two ounco fool tank full of gas. By now tho plane is just P speck on tho horizon. iwoll, tho fiold wc sro in is largo. Tho only obstacle is s tsli troo about ooo yards from whoro wo sro. Luckily thc plans is oquippod with a dothormolizcr that will forcc it down in s littlo wbils. Yos, It's coming down, down, down! Itls nood- ing For that on: troc... ...... Yss, it lsnd,d in it! Lsndcd in THLT ONE TREE. By tho tin: too plsno is rcpsircd, it is 2:00 B.M. and thc sun is blazing lown. Th s ending thi bcst port of thc flying dsy. All tho oquipmsnt is picked upy all borrowsd tools sro rcturncfg and all brokon parts src londid into o box. Tho flyers start watching tba control lon: flyers, and sro sort of back scat pilots for thc WCo3tivo nodoln flyers. At about l:oo P.M. thc thcrmsls como into action, and sgrin too frog flight modols fill thc sky. Tho sir is ss thick rs pcs soup with all clnssls ant sizes. Finally, thc su' bsgins to flickcr bonind thi mountains, and modcl fans are realy to go homi. As thc sun sats in th, wnst, wo bid s fond sdiou to tho modal buildors of today, tho world-wids known HBALSLUEUTCEEKSU Rogor and Out. Harry Erickson Rutland Historical Society and the Rutland Free Library.