Bill Young Designs

Oral History

Jeremy C. Young — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:10:15 +0000

At the link below, you can read a transcript of an oral history of Bill Young taken by his son, Jeremy C. Young, on December 27, 2008. The transcript was prepared by Jeremy C. Young. Copies of the audiorecording of the oral history are available upon request. For more information about this document, please contact Jeremy C. Young by e-mail.

All manifestations of this oral history, including this document, are protected by a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial-share-alike license. For more information about this license, please consult the following webpage: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/. Fair use restrictions also apply as provided in U.S. copyright law. All rights to this document not granted in the license are reserved by Bill Young’s heirs.

Click here to read a transcript of a 2008 oral history of Bill Young.

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Contact

Jeremy C. Young — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:59:22 +0000

To contact the webmaster, Jeremy C. Young, please send him an e-mail.

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Order Form

Jeremy C. Young — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:58:44 +0000

Please note: We are not currently accepting orders, but may begin again at a later date. For more information, please contact the webmaster, Jeremy C. Young, by e-mail. Thank you for your interest.

Bill Young Designs Order Form

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4403 E. Rustic Knolls Ln.
Flagstaff, AZ 86004

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Domestic orders are post paid. Arizona residents please include appropriate sales tax. Foreign orders add 25%. Please provide payment in U.S. dollars.

Return policy: Owing to the ease with which these materials can be duplicated and the rare historical nature of some of them, returns will only be considered if they are returned unopened.

The purchase of these materials does not in any way include permission to duplicate, publish, and/or in any other way use them for personal financial gain.
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Electronic Devices

Jeremy C. Young — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:57:42 +0000

Please note: these devices are no longer for sale. Thank you for your interest.

Electronic U-Control Handle

Control throttle plus four other functions using insulated control lines. 5-channel decoder included. Fully-integrated electronics contained in a single handheld device. Available in 5-channel and 3-channel versions.

5-channel version………………………………………………………………………$150.00
3-channel version………………………………………………………………………$150.00

(above photo by Fred Cronenwett)

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About Bill Young Designs

Jeremy C. Young — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:56:38 +0000

Bill Young died on November 30, 2011, after a long illness. He was a loving husband, father, and friend. He will be greatly missed.

This site will remain active and will serve as a memorial to Bill’s life and work. We are also leaving up his catalog of plans and manuals. These items are not currently available for sale, but may become so again at a later date as we locate the originals. If you are interested in one or more of the items, or if you have any questions or comments, please contact the webmaster, Jeremy C. Young, by e-mail. For obvious reasons, Bill’s electronic U-Control handles will no longer be manufactured. Thank you for your interest.

Click here to read a transcript of a 2008 oral history of Bill Young.

Click here to read Bill’s successful nomination to the AMA Hall of Fame.

Click here to read Bill’s obituary.

Welcome to Bill Young Designs, the online home of veteran modeler and designer Bill Young (1934-2011). Bill had over sixty years’ experience in model aircraft, boats, cars, trains, and rockets.

Bill was a pioneering model boat designer and racer and served as President of the Western Association of Model Boaters during the late 1960′s. In that capacity. he was instrumental in founding the North American Model Boat Association (NAMBA) in 1970. From 1982-1994, Bill served as a volunteer historian for the Northrop N9M-B Restoration Project at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, California; his article on the N9M, co-authored with Gerald Balzer, was published in the 1994 American Aviation Historical Society Journal. Bill wrote a monthly column titled “Electric Scale” in Scale R/C Modeler from 1988-1996. He was also published in many other model airplane magazines including Model Builder, Flying Models, and R/C Modeler. From 1996-2007, Bill was the proprietor of Bill Young Designs and Hobbies, a full-service hobby shop in Flagstaff, AZ. He was also a sought-after electronics designer and inventor with many original designs of electronic model aircraft devices to his credit. In 2011, Bill was elected to the Academy of Model Aeronautics Hall of Fame.

Over the years, Bill authored and/or collected scale model plans, photographs, and manuals for a variety of rare and specialized aircraft. Many of these historic materials cannot be obtained anywhere else, and Bill’s original plans or manuals are in many cases the only ones available. Now, for the first time, Bill’s designs, publications, and model airplane devices are available for purchase in a single online location.

We encourage you to look through the complete online catalog of Bill’s publications and electronic devices. If you’re interested in Bill’s life story, please read his oral history. For more information, please feel free to contact the webmaster, Jeremy C. Young, via e-mail.

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Publications Catalog

Jeremy C. Young — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:41:33 +0000

Manuals and Historical Monographs

Autogiro Kite Manual (includes some designs)…………………………$15.00
Northrop N9M-A (80-page history)……………………………………………$25.00
R/C Model Autogiro Design Manual (63 pages)………………………$25.00

Drawings, Plans, and Photographs

Backstrom Plank
Scale drawings………………………$8.00
Photograph Set (12)……………$14.00

Buhl Pup
Photograph set (7)…………………$8.00

Comper-Cierva C-25 Autogiro
Scale drawings…………………………$8.00
Photograph set (2)…………………$3.00

Culver Dart
Photograph set (13)………………………………………………………………………$15.00

Culver Dart — Modified by Rod Jocelyn
Scale Drawings…………………………$8.00
Photograph set (10)………………$12.00

Curtiss Robin
Photograph set (9)…………………$11.00

Curtiss MF Seagull
Photograph set (4)……………………$5.00

Dayton Wright Racer
Photograph set (7)……………………………………………………………………………$8.00

DeHavilland DH-108 Swallow
Model plans — Electric ducted fan…………………………………………………$15.00

Electric Ducted Fan Plans
Plans and instructions to make your own………………………………………$3.00

Fantrainer 600
Scale drawings……………………………$8.00

Fauvel AV-60
Scale drawings……………………………$8.00
Photograph set (12)…………………$14.00

Ford Fliver
Photograph set (10)…………………$12.00

Granger Archaeopteryx
Scale drawings…………………………$8.00
Photograph set (12)………………$14.00

Harlow
Photograph set (11)………………$13.00

Horten IX/GO-229
Model plans……………………………$20.00

Kellett K-2 Autogiro
Scale drawings…………………………………………………………………………………$8.00

Laird Biplane 1915
Photograph set (12)………………………………………………………………………$14.00

Lockheed Vega
Photograph set (11)………………………………………………………………………$13.00

Lockheed YO-3A
Scale drawings…………………………………………………………………………………$8.00

Macchi M-33 Schneider Cup Racer
Scale drawings…………………………………………………………………………………$16.00

Monospar ST-12
Scale drawings…………………………………………………………………………………$16.00

Northrop N9M-A
Scale drawings…………………………………………………………………………………$24.00
Photograph set (12)………………………………………………………………………$14.00

Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet
Scale drawing……………………………………………………………………………………$8.00
Photograph set (9)…………………………………………………………………………$11.00

Northrop JB-1
Scale drawing……………………………………………………………………………………$8.00
Photograph set (10)………………………………………………………………………$12.00

Pitcairn PCA-2 Autogiro — Detroit News
Scale drawings…………………………$16.00
Photograph set (26)………………$29.00

Stephen’s Akro
Scale drawings…………………………$8.00
Photograph set (16)………………$18.00

Scale Drawing Scrapbook
13 drawings, photos & descr…$15.00

Waterman Aerobile
Photograph set (8)……………………………………………………………………………$9.00

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