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DECEMBER 2021 NO.265
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MASTER MODELS
SAUNDERS-ROE PRINCESS
Mike Roach recreates the last of the big,
really big, flying boats, electric powered not-
so-miniature
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FREE FULL SIZE PLAN FEATURE
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Our full size free plan feature this month is a
45” (1143mm) span R/C model of the classic
Piper three-seater designed by ADRIAN
BRITTON
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KAWASAKI KI-61 ‘HIEN’
The fighter that the Allies code-named
‘Tony’. This is a 60” (1524mm) wingspan 1/8th
sport scale replica of this elegant fightere
type for .45 -.51 size motors, designed by
BRIAN BRASSEY
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PIPER SUPER CRUISER
SCALE DRAWING
1:40 three-views
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SCALE SOARING
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TYPE HISTORY: KAWASAKI KI-61
Known to its operators as the ‘Hien’ (Swallow)
and by its adversaries as the ‘Tony’, this was
arguably Japan’s most elegant fighter of the
W.W.2 era.
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KI-61 SCALE DRAWING
1:40 detailed three-view drawing
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SUBECTS FOR SCALE:
MACCHI MC.200 ‘SAETTA’
When it first entered front line servise in 1939,
the ‘Saetta’ was regarded as the best all-
round Italian fighter among a multiplicity of
types, all produced to do the same task
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KI-61 FLYING COLOURS
A ‘Swallow’ in warpaint
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INDOOR FREE FLIGHT
ROYAL AIRCRAFT FACTORY FE8
Quaint though the layout may have been,
it does make a scale modelling subject
with ‘presence’. This 25” (635mm) wingspan
indoor scale example designed by JOHN
WATTERS for Co2 power, would also be
suitable for electric drive
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MACCHI MC.200 SCALE
DRAWING
1:60 fine-line detailed three-views
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MC.200 FLYING COLOURS
Combat colours for the ‘Saetta’
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SURVIVING FREE FLIGHT SCALE
Part 3: Andrew Hewitt looks at fuselages –
building in strength, but keeping it light
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BESPOKE PROPELLERS FOR
LARGE SCALE MODELS
PART 2: Ian Turney-White concludes his
techniques for thr carving and gluing required.
ON THE
COVER
Modelling lost causes is a challenge quite often an attraction for flying scale
modellers. There was something quite majestic about the Saunders-Roe S-R 45
‘Princess’ that Mike Roach could not resist when he built this one to a wingspan of
100” (2,540mm), with six electric motor power.
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Elegant? Well, not really, but certainly majestic, the Saunders-Roe Princess
was never destined to become queen of the skies.
M
ore than a century of
aviation history has,
unsurprisingly, produced
a long list of failures; some
of performance, others
superseded by the march of technology
with which such projects could not keep
pace, others by misplaced expectation of
a market.
One such was the Saunders-Roe SR45
Princess that, immediately post-WW2
in 1945, was envisaged as an ultra long
range flying boat capable of operating
and extending the British Empire air routes
pioneered during the 1930s by Imperial
Airways.
Working against that concept was the
rapid development of aviation during
WW2, which had the side effect of
extending a network of airfields around
the world, primarily for transient military
purposes, but nevertheless the bare bones
of what could be developed into a land
based international commercial route
network.
Concurrently, the U.S. Navy had it’s
own relatively similar concept in the their
Convair R3Y Tradewind, somewhat smaller,
envisaged for island hopping between
U.S. military Pacific Ocean outposts. But in
the days of fast approaching sunset on
the British Empire, for the S-R Princess there
were a fast diminishing number of outposts
to ‘hop’ between.
In an early issue of
Aeroplane Monthly
under the late Richard Riding’s editorship,
a comprehensive story of the Princess
quoted Imperial Airways’ post-WW2
successor B.O.A.C. was quoted as
indicating they would order
“…at least
two…”,
which more or less said it all.
Thus, only three examples of the Princess
were ever built, and only one ever flew – 47
times, on test flights, including twice at the
1953 and ’54 Farnborough Air Shows, at the
latter of which, as a young ‘gawper’ in the
crowd, I watched it’s majestic low passes
along the crowd line, before it departed
toward the southern horizon, visible for so
long as to emphasise its huge bulk.
Adventurous scale modellers seem
strangely attracted to such obscure
subjects of scale modelling, but I have
to say that the Saunders-Roe SR-45
Princess is one I had never expected to
see modelled, so the existence of Mike
Roach’s 100” wingspan model of the 214 ft.
wingspan full size, prompted both surprise
and admiration. To read all about how
Mike went about successfully recreating
the Princess in not-so-miniature 100”
wingspan form, just turn the page here…
Whilst the first prototype Princess G-ALUN
did most of its 47 test flights in bare metal
finish, at least one of of the three built
received the livery shown here as the aircraft
towers above the Saunder-Roe slipway at
Cowes, Isle of Wight.
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