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TECHNIQUE
REALISM IN FLIGHT
… THE QUEST FOR ‘SCALE SPEED’
SPORT SCALE MASTERCLASS EXPLAINS
CHALLENGE OF A LIFETIME!
MILES M.38 MESSENGER
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MESSENGER IN MONOCHROME
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TYPE HISTORY
July 2021
No. 260 £5.99
A KADET FOR THE CADETS
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SLINGSBY T.7
AIR TRAINING CORPS CLASSIC IN 1/5TH SCALE
TYPE HISTORY SCALE DRAWING
9 771368 900066
THE ISSUE AHEAD...
Formation...
FLYING SCALE MODELS - THE FIRST AND FOREMOST MAGAZINE FOR SCALE MODEL FLYERS
JULY 2021 NO.260
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FULL SIZE FREE PLAN FEATURE
PIPER CHEROKE 140
A double-bill feature, with full size free plans
for a 39” wingspan model for .15 cu.in.
size engine, or the option of a larger 52”
wingspan version for .30-.35 power, available
through FSM Plans Service. Cut parts sets are
available for both model sizes
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MESSENGER IN
MONOCHROME
A ‘period’ collection of just some of the
seventy-plus Miles Messengers constructed
and operated in the days before colour
photography became the norm, before
the high-street ‘Happy Snaps’ quick and
convenient colour film processing, or
digital cameras and mobile ‘phones.
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CHEROKEE SCALE DRAWING
1:60 detailed three-views for the Piper PA 28
Cherokee 140 and PA R-28 Cherokee Arrow
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BUILD LIKE IT THE PIONEERS
PAERT 2: The lat Dennis Fairlie’s approach
to modelling dawn-of-aviation aircraft
types
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CHEROKEE COLOUR PARADE
Just a few of the divers colour schemes
applied to this aircraft type among the
thousands built.
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SLINGSBY T.7 ‘KIRBY CADET’
92.5” (2,349.5mm) wingspan 1:5.4 scale
model from the design board of David
Boddington is no sailplane, but a lot of
practical fun for slope soaring
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SPORT-SCALE MASTERCLASS
PART 24: The pursuit of arbourne realism -
scale speed in flight
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MILES M.38 MESSENGER
Looking for a traditional-build scale
modelling challenge? Well, consider this
100” (2,540mm) wingspan, quarter-scale
model for engines that include 1.20
cu.in. four-strokes. The airframe gets close
to replicating the full size. Designed by
GRAHAM SMITH
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SLINGSBY T.7 CADET
TYPE HISTORY
The ‘aerodynamically restricted Kadet/
Cadet gave Air Training Corps cadets their
first exhilarating ‘air experience during the
1940/early 1950s period
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SUBJECTS FO SCALE
AUSTER AOP 9
The last of the production Austers before
the British Army Air Corps transfered to all
rotary-wing operations
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MESSENGER SCALE DRAWING
1:40 detailed scale three-views
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MILES MESSENGER
TYPE HISTORY
Created for wartime military use, the M.38
Messenger found its niche in post-WW2
civillian use, before the Miles Company
failed in 1947
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AUSTER AOP 9 IN DETAIL
Close-up detail photo study of the Army
Flying Museum’s example on permanent
show
ON THE
COVER
G-AKIN is one of the full size Miles M.38 Messenger survivors out of the total production
of 71 examples and is regularly flown at air shows. Graham Swith’s 100” wingspan
model is our major construction feature.
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FLYING SCALE MODELS
- JULY 2021
EDITORIAL
Contact...
CONGRATULATIONS But was it for a successful
‘flight’ or for survival of a low level hop accross
the grass in on of those open-frame ‘Primary’
contracptions that ATC Cadets ‘flew’ before
moving on to the Slingsby Cadet.
In the every arly days of the ATC Gliding Schools,
launching was not by winch, but by ‘kite-ing’ the
glider to height behind a motor vehicle.
flights during the day – so it became an
all-weekend event and ‘Old
Warden Scale’
is just coming for its 56th consecutive year.
Now under the guidance of
ModelAir’s
Ken and Sheila Sheppard, this year’s
meet will accommodate all disciplines,
R/C (weight limit 15kg), R/C Assist (10 kg)
Control Line (5kg) and Free Flight (500g).
BMFA Insurance is mandatory; Camping
is bookable as is daily entry.
Editor:
Tony Dowdeswell
tony@modelactivitypress.com
Publisher:
Alan Harman
Design:
Peter Hutchinson
Website:
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Alan Harman
Admin Manager:
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TALE FROM A MISSPENT YOOF!
For a bit of a change this month, one of
our construction features presents a scale
glider. I say ‘glider’, because no one could
possibly be so complimentary about the
Slingsby Cadet TX.7 as to award it the
accolade of sailplane! Except that is for
one remarkable cross country flight of
which you can read about in the ‘Type
History’ of the Cadet also in this issue.
Even so, the Cadet, or Kadet as
it was first named, did earn a well-
deserved place in aviation history for
its long association with that excellent
organisation, the
Air Training Corps,
which
dominated my own personal interest for
several years from the mid-1950s.
The British Air Ministry had created
the A.T.C. in 1942 and soon thereafter
developed a string of glider training
schools equipped with the Slingsby glider
so that A.T.C. cadets, if they were lucky
enough, could have a taste of what flying
was all about.
As an ATC Cadet, my one and only
opportunity at a Gliding Course was an
utter non-event, and work on this July issue
prompted a memory. About a dozen of us
from ‘my’ Squadron (No.2204) were sent to
ex-Battle of Britain airfield R.A.F Hawkinge
atop the cliffs near Dover where, by then,
the only remaining vestige of ‘The Battle’
was a single Spitfire Mk.IX gate guardian
unempathetically painted on all-over silver.
Anyway, it was winter, sometime in
January or February and freezing cold. As
ATC Cadets, in Uniform, we were required
to move around the site in marching order;
I had forgotten my gloves and tried to
get away with marching around with my
hands in my pockets, which brought the
wrath of all from non-com two-chevron
Corporals, to commissioned ‘Ossifers’
We then had snow, a lot of snow, which
collapsed the canvass hangar that housed
the gliders. The snow thawed, creating a
lake in the centre of the airfield. A heavy
overnight frost then turned the lake into
a skating ring. So, by Wednesday of the
week, ‘they’ put us in the back of one of
those service trucks with canvas covered
rear (we had to march to the main gate in
ranks of three of course!) and delivered us
back to the railway station for our journey
home.
I never got a sniff of a glider there and
I never managed to get on another ATC
Gliding Course which, as time went on,
became more and more as rare as hens’
teeth.
Yes I remember it well!
OLD WARDEN SCALE WEEKEND
It took a bit of ferreting, and an ascent
into the loft at home to leaf through my
bound volumes of
AeroModeller
(I spend
enough time up there digging through the
archives that the wife sometimes calls me
Lofty), to establish that the first ever Old
Warden annual ‘Scale Day’ occurred way
back in 1966. Back then,
AeroModeller
was the driving force behind the event
which quickly developed into a kind of
benchmark of easy-going celebration of
the best, most special, most enjoyable,
most everyday pleasant expression of
flying scale interest. That popularity quickly
became so overwhelming that in original
one-day format, as far at R/C scale was
concerned, you might be lucky to get two
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