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A barrel, that not only rolls out, but flies
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SURVIVING FREE FIGHT SCALE
New Series: Building, trimming and flying
tips from Andrew Hewitt
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THE GEE BEE STORY
Type history of the Granville Brothers and
their outrageous flying barrel racers that
will always be the memorable shapes of
air racing in 1930s era USA.
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TRANSPORTS OF DELIGHT
BUILD A MODEL AIRLINER? Why? How?
MARTIN HARDY preludes an upcoming
Master Models feature on his Lockheed
Super Constellation with a survey of
successful scale R/C airliner models, all
electric powered
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MILES M.38 MESSENGER
PART 4: Peter Shaw completes the
construction sequence of his Graham
Smith-designed, quarter-scale, 100”
(2540mm) wingspan Miles M.38 Messenger,
for engines in the region of 1.20 cu.in.
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SCALE SAORING
The Winds of (Climate) Change continue
to cramp our columnist CHRIS WILLIAMS’
style, so it’s overtime on the building board!
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MESSENGERS IN COLOUR
Colour schemes carried by some of the full
size survivors
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SUBJECTS FOR SCALE
DE HAVILLAND MOSQUITO
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An aviation classic if ever there was one,
De Havilland’s ‘wooden wonder’ was,
initially, created for a single, narrowly
defined purpose but was eventually
developed through a total of 35 variants.
Here we consider the early types.
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MESSENGER IN DETAIL
Close-up photo study of the superbly
restored, airworthy G-AKIN
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DOIN’ WHEELIES
PART 2: How to make true-scale wheels for
early aviation ‘Flying Machines’
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MOSQUITO SCALE DRAWING
Super detailed three views in 1:60 scale for
Mks 1 to 6
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MOSQUITO IN DETAIL
Close-up photo study of the FB Mk.IV
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COVER
Among the pantheon of choices for fscale modelling, the De Havilland Mosquito, is by no means
one that has receiver the attention of scale modellers, that one might expect,despite its oustanding
record as a succesful military type. So this month, it is our ‘Subject for Scale’. Our cover image is an
FB. Mk.VI, privately owned by Crales Somers, or Hillsborough, Oregan, registered N474PZ.
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or those who follow full size
aviation as a hobby interest, there
are many subdivisions in much the
same manner as for those of us
who build scale models.
Among those full size niche interests is
that of the
Propliner,
those aeroplanes of
yesteryear that made lots of piston engine
noise, all with big fans on the wings.
In the days of my youth, where I lived
was not that near the London Heathrow
approach, but near enough to hear
the throb of the Friday-night, westward
bound Lockheed Super Constellation
clawing for altitude, and, regularly at all
hours day and evening, the whine of Rolls
Royce Dart turboprops of the BEA Vickers
Viscounts joining the Approach. Another
individualistic airliner noise signature was
the Wright Cyclones of the USAF Douglas
C-47s doing circuits at the nearby air
base.
Back then, the noise ‘footprint ‘
of an aircraft was a part of ‘aircraft
recognition’, in the same manner these
days when for example, a very occasional
Spitfire scurries low overhead en-route
to some air show. The ‘Sigh of a Merlin’,
confirms what’s coming before you ever
get a fleeting glimpse. All in start contracts
to the swept wing look-alike cigar tube
airlines of today.
Multi-engine flying models of any kinds
have long been regarded by many as a
complication to be avoided. However,
electric power systems now minimise the
operational risks, so that airliners and multi
engine transport aircraft models are now
a practical proposition, as Martin Hardy
demonstrates in this issue, with a review of
airliner models that he and others have
built.
The choice of subject is huge, stretching
from the earliest wind-in-the-wires types of
the 1920s, to almost the present time. Such
models have a commanding presence in
the air as they gracefully circuit the flying
field.
Time to come aboard?
Mention of distictive aircraft engine
sounds reminds me of a series of
memorable, consecutive summer
evenings, long since past, when flight
sequencies,were being filmed at nearby
R.A.F. Bovingdon, for the Movie ‘633
Squadron’.
Several De Havilland Mosquitos (our
‘Subject for Scale’ this month) flew circuits
there for well over an hour on each of
those evenings, right over our house - a
real roof rattler!
THERE’S NOTHING QUITE SO
MEMORABLE AS THE SOUND OF OF A
ROLLS ROYCE MERLIN ; AND TWO OF THEM
....WELL!
Martin Hardy’s Lockheed L1049 Super
constallation. Full review next month.
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