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THE EVENING INDEPENDENT, MASSILLON, OHIOJACKSON YOUTH with free flight plane and trophy won in competition.His plane wins first placei Independent Staff Photo)A Jackson junior high school student has won a lai-ge first I place trophy and a second place I plaque at the King Orange 23rd !annual international free flight [airplaine competition in Jack* isonvi-He, Fla.j Ken Jacobs, 15, of 3410 Malibu •ave NW, Jackson township, en-j-tered both flights in the senior Class A division, last weekend.! THE YOUTH' who entered competition for the first time, built his Half A free flight (no controls) plane, with a Minnie iPearl kit. He placed an .051 Cox .competition engine in the flight |in which he took first place and j switched to an .04$ Cox in Half I A. for his second place win. The |kit does not contain an engine or la timer.j The plane, which required: |about three weeks of spare time: j to build, has a wing area of 210i j square inches. Its total weightincluding engine, timer and gas tank is seven -ounces. It is covered with a special tissue paper stuck to the surface with modelers' dope wihleh helps shrinkage of the paper and fills j in pores to exclude air.The youth’s adviser in construction of the plane is'Nick Boldi, of Jackson township, who won a large first place trophyin eastern states’ free flight airplane competition last August in Philadelphia.Accompanying Jacobs and Boldi to Jacksonville -to act as a recovery team for the plane were Mark Beitzel and Steve Slydgr, Jackson Memorial high school students and Dave Bailey,: a student at Washington high school.Temperature tumblesto new winter lowMassillon and western Stark in the teens, warming to the 20s county felt the coldest weather'by Monday, of the winter this morning as! Meanwhile, figures - on the the mercury fell to six degrees yearly report were released hv at 1:30 at the National Weather NWS, showing that the averag'e Service (NWS) station at Ak-1 daily high was 60 degrees, whichrnn-danfnn airrmrt/TL . ______
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Evening Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Thu, Jan 06, 1972
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