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25” WINGSPAN FOR INDOOR R/C
TECHNIQUE
DIFFERENT WAY
WITH DECALS
HOW TO DO IT
FLY BABY FLY!
BOWERS
BIPLANE 1B
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MASTER
MODEL
FEATURE
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SUBJECTS FOR SCALE
PERCIVAL PROVOST
LAST OF THE R.A.F.’S PISTON ENGINE TRAINERS
1:40 SCALD DRAWINGS CLOSE-UP DETAIL
9 771368 900066
THE ISSUE AHEAD...
TYPE HISTORY
Formation...
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LOCKHEED
SUPER CONSTELLATION
Martin Hardy retraces the build of his 88”
wingspan electric powered superscale
model, including purpose-built scale
retracting undercarriage system
indoor club flying evenings, why not try
Mark Denham’s. 25” Wingspan WW1
Triplane?
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NOT ALL FOKKER DR.1S
WERE RED!
Here are some options for your indoor
foamie flyer
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SURVIVING FREE FLIGHT SCALE
Part 2: Andrew Hewitt’s guide to selecting
a suitable subject for your first free flight
scale model
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A DIFFERENT WAY WITH DECALS
Frank W. Beaty offers his own contribution
to the diverse technique of creating
bespoke decals for scale models.
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PERCIVAL P56 PROVOST
The R.A.F.’s last single piston engine trainer,
before the Service went over to all-jet
flying training
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BOWERS FLY BABY 1B BIPLANE
A 54” (1372mm) wingspan sport-scale R/C
version of the Pete Bowers home-build
biplane - a delightful and practical model
for .61-.91 cu.in engines, designed by Mike
Conrad
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PROVOST IN DETAIL
Composite study of The Shuttleworth
Collection’s G-KAPW (ex-XF603) and
G-BKFW (ex-XF597), both ex-RAF examples,
fully representative of the type
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FLY BABY BIPLANE
TYPE HISTORY
Take one long-standing and expert
aeromodeller with achievements in the
full size homebuild aircraft movement and
what to you get?
.... well here it is!
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PROVOST SCALE DRAWING
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1:40 scale three-view
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BESPOKE PROPELLERS FOR
LARGE SCALE MODELS
PART 1: Ian Turney-White takes you through
all the steps of designing and carving
really big wooden propellers, tailored to
the needs of really big scale models
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FLY BABY BIPLANE
THEME & VARIATIONS
As a home build type from plans, those
who have caught the full size homebuild
bug have, in some cases, taken their own
particular ‘liberties’ with the original shape.
Here are some of them.
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INDOOR FOAMIE FGOKKER DR.1
The Indoor flying season is here so, for
ON THE
COVER
AMAZING GRACE! In its time the Lockheed Constellation, first in it’s original L-749, subsequent
stretched L-1049 Super Constellation and final L-1649 Starliner form was regarded as the most
graceful means of air travel. Equally graceful is Martin Hardy’s 88” wingspan ‘Super Connie’ that is
our Master Model feature this month.
PHOTO: Chris Williams
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I
t’s interesting how ‘association’ jogs
memories – and in my own case, anything
to do with aviation regularly does – often
from my distant much earlier years.
Martin Hardy’s Lockheed Super
Constellation, our Master Models feature this
month, certainly did it for me.
In my Air Training Corps days, Friday night
was ‘Band Practice Night’ … bagpipes …
YES!!!
The ‘memory association’ prompted
by Martin’s spectacular model is that on
summer Friday evenings back in those
late 1950s years, it was possible to see the
unmistakable outline, low on the horizon, of
a ‘Super Connie’ clawing for altitude after
take-off from London Heathrow airport,
presumably on the overnight North Atlantic
run. What heightened the memory more
than anything else, was the throb of those
four Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone engines
that actually vibrated the windows of the
ATC hut!
It’s such details that prompt the
memories.
Yet another of Martin’s spectacular
electric powered multi-motor electric scale
models, prompted a further ‘memory’. His
latest is a model of the Italian Twin-pusher
Piaggio 136 amphibian.
What prompted the memory of that one,
was the example once operated by the
McAlpine construction and civil engineering
group in what was, then, my neck of the
woods. The noise of Those Lycoming GSO-
480 engines would announce its approach
way, way, before it ever came into sight. Size-
for-size, I think it was the most noisy aircraft
I’ve ever known!
EUREKA MOMENTS
I like to hope that what appears each
month in FSM, particularly the technique
pieces, provides some useful nugget of
lateral thinking that draws a
“why did I not
think of that”
reaction .
One such appears in Martin Hardy’s
Master Models feature in which he
describes his approach to planking
the fuselage skin of his Lockheed Super
Constellation. He applied the balsa sheets
with slow drying PVA white glue around
the formers, but interspersed that with short
runs of cyano, so that the cyano quickly
‘grabbed’ the formers, sufficient to hold the
skin in place while the slow white glue set –
saving a lot of time in the process.
Nice one Martin!
WANTED
Does anyone have one of the old
Graupner
Multilader
chargers, going spare and
unwanted? One of those that had multiple
charge outputs from 2 volt through to 12v.
If so, I would like to hear from you :-
tony@modelactivitypress.com
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