Crossword Puzzle

Kirt Blattenberger's model aviation themed crossword puzzle. As featured in Model Aviation back issues from 2001-2002. Visit the archives/library to see more.

Test your crossword skills with a model aviation themed crossword puzzle from Kirt Blattenberger. You can also download a printable version of this crossword.

Across

1 Area between ribs 4 Pull up prior to touchdown 8 Garbage 12 Premier model aviation organization 15 Device used to clock aircraft speed 17 Path that a propeller tip takes 18 Edge of a dope jar 19 Son of Abraham 21 Result 22 Do you fly model airplanes? 23 I've ___ to meet a modeler I didn't like 24 One of the gifts of the Magi 25 State in AMA District IV 26 State in AMA District III 27 Wood sorrel 29 Not hers 30 State in AMA District V 31 State in AMA District V 32 State in AMA District VI 33 Room within a harem 35 Songbird 37 Penny 38 Atomic mass unit 39 ___ Scholl, of Super Chipmunk fame 41 Boeing P-26 ___-Shooter 42 Premier organization for model rocket enthusiasts 43 On sheltered side 44 ____muffin 45 Eccentric mechanism 46 Charlie Brown's expression 47 Use a jig ___ for cutting aircraft plywood 48 One who flies competitive aircraft for profit 51 British nobleman 53 Epoxy does this (if mixed correctly) 55 Allow 56 Crash your plane 58 She ___ what it takes to fly competitively 59 Trim implement on a control surface 60 Fluid part of blood 62 Simpler 64 What kind of fuel ___ you using? 65 Where aircraft carriers operate 66 Military part numbering system prefix 67 State in AMA District IX 68 Fish eggs 69 Computer department 70 State in AMA District I 71 Attempt an FAI record 72 Honey, I'm going __ the flying field now 73 Radio modulation type 74 Landing gear 75 State in AMA District V 76 Soaring club in Riverside, CA 77 Put the plane away for the winter 79 They come after ems 80 Control line 81 Perform 82 Middle Eastern salad 88 Zodiacal constellation for most of August 89 Before 90 Adjust the needle valve 91 Emotion following a successful flight 97 _____ the elevator to pitch the nose upward 98 Type of CL racer 99 Back seat airplane occupant 100 Argot 102 Cyanoacrylate 103 Abbreviation for AMA District V possession 105 Pulled up to take off 107 I ___ going to fly yesterday, but it rained 108 "Only ___ Best From U.S. Hobby" 110 Portable bed 111 Dude's place 113 Resinous deposit 114 Fairy queen 116 Statute 117 Period of history 118 Black bird 119 Lyric poem 120 Number of wings on a monoplane 121 Wrath 122 17th letter of the Greek alphabet 123 Gun the engine 124 1/60th of a min. 125 Operated the engine 126 Centers of gravity 127 9th letter of the Hebrew alphabet 128 Airtight ring at bottom of carburetor 129 Unnecessarily 130 Supplications 131 Son of Isaac and Rebekah

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1 Type of electrical plug 2 Printed sale announcements in Model Aviation 3 Holly shrub 5 Grain direction of covering material 6 Ring of color 7 Model Aviation column by Paul Kopp - 2000 9 Reach this department at AMA phone extension 270 10 Festival 11 Capable at flying 12 Institution for mentally ill 13 Impair 14 Canton in N Switzerland 15 Special feature articles on commercial airplane kits 16 Readjust 19 What an Australian sailor would declare 20 Rejuvenates batteries 28 Wing loading quotients 29 Shrinks Monokote 34 Organize a contest 36 Local annual outdoor festival 37 Develop a new airplane design 38 Cherry-like fruit 40 Cuts grooves on screw or nut 41 Pennsylvania Air National Guard Association 47 Thou _____ not leave thy transmitter on in the impound 49 Omniscient Brotherhood of Elite Academic Highbrows, abbr. 50 Month when the Toledo show usually occurs 52 Not former 53 What's the ______ to your perfect tissue covering jobs? 54 Rendezvous 55 Hardware to hold the fuel tank access hatch closed 57 Fernando _____, FF Sport and Scale columnist in Model Aviation - 2000 61 Come in dead last in a fly-off 63 Sea eagle 78 N____, the USAF's facility in Cheyenne Mountain 83 WWI British biplane manufacturer 84 British Aircraft Association 85 Castor and synthetic are used in glow fuels 86 May I ___ your rubber winder? 87 Desk with slanted top 92 Series of steps required to complete a task 93 Aircraft parking area 94 Highest mountain in Crete 95 Used in an emergency landing aboard an aircraft carrier 96 Recluse 100 Russian country house 101 Number of wings on a triplane 102 Nose ____ on rockets 104 Type of altimeter 105 Maximum safe separation between TX and RX 106 Ventures 107 Item at a modeling swap shop 109 Overhanging lower edge of a roof 110 Engine body 112 Sandy tract 113 Plural of locus 115 Second letter of the Greek alphabet