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AVRO 504K
36” (914MM) WINGSPAN
FOR ELECTRIC POWER.
GLOSTER METEOR
42.5” (1080MM) WINGSPAN 1:10 SCALE FOR TWIN EDF
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METEOR TYPE HISTORY
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1:70 SCALE THREE-VIEWS
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METEOR MK.4 IN DETAIL
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COLOUR SCHEMES
TEN GUNS BLAZING
BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER
EDF POWER
SYSTEMS
PART 2: 86” WINGSPAN BUILD
FEATURE FOR .75 FOUR STROKES
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IN DETAIL
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COLOUR SCHEMES
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TECHNIQUE
SPORT SCALE
MASTERCLASS
OPTIMISE A POWER
SYSTEM FOR YOU
ELECTRIC SCALE JET
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THE ISSUE AHEAD...
Formation...
FLYING SCALE MODELS - THE WORLD’S ONLY MAGAZINE FOR SCALE MODEL FLYERS
ON THE COVER
From a time when even jey fighters
still looked like conventional
aeroplanes as opposed to semi-
spacecraft, the Gloster Meteor Mk.4
had an air of shapely grace about it
together with sleekness that came
with speed!
This month’s major construction
feature offers scale jet model flying in
the easiest manner, with electric
ducted fan power.
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CONTACT
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Just for starters
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SPORT SCALE MASTERCLASS PART 16
The power to fly! Gordon Whitehead deals with engines for
scale models
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AVRO 504K
36" span for electric power and three-function R/C - designed
by Peter Rake and test-built by James Laird in Australia and
John Cinderey of the UK, who carried out the test flights
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AVRO 504 TYPE HISTORY
From WW1 warrior to trainer of the many, the venerable '504
served for more than 25 years
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IN DETAIL: AVRO 504K
The Shuttleworth Collection’s pristine airworthy example that
still performs at Old Warden
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gloster meteor mk.4
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An Electric powered ducted fan driven sport-scale model of
R.A.F. Fighter Command's first-generation jet fighter, designed
by PAUL TUPKER
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Electric DUCTED solutions
Gordon Whitehead explains how to match fan unit,battery and
ESC unit to a model
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METEOR MK.4 SCALE DRAWING
1:70 three-views showing early and later wing planforms
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meteor type history
Dawn of the jet age; the early variants; F.1 to F.4
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meteor flying colours
Colour schemes carried by R.A.F ‘Meatboxes’ and other air arms
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METEOR MK.4 IN DETAIL
A composite study of the Midland Air Museum’s F. Mk.IV at
Baginton, Coventry, and the Tangmere Military Aviation
Museum’s 1946 record holder
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BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER
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PART 2: Andy Ward completes and flies his 86" wingspan
model of the Bristol Beaufighter, designed for .75-.80 cu.in. four
stroke engines
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BEAUFIGHTER FLYING COLOURS
Warpaint schemes carried by Beaufighters in different
warzones
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BEAUFIGHTER IN DETAIL
A close-up study of the Beaufighter Mk.X, held on display at
the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon
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any of us, of a certain age will have spent some time
of their early, misspent youth adorning the perimeter
fence of the local airfield to satisfy their fascination
with aeroplanes. Your editor was one of them!
My ‘local’ was RAF Bovingdon where the visiting
‘fare’ was gratifyingly cosmopolitan. Of those I can still remember,
notably rare one-offs included Republic F-84 Thunderjets, Lockheed
P2V-3 and P2V-5 Neptunes, A ‘Kings Flight’ (Her Majesty had yet to
accede) Vickers Viking, Lockheed T-33, Avro Yorks and Douglas C-
54s (the Americans shared the airfield with the RAF).
And then there were the de Havilland Vampires and Gloster
Meteors. Although not possible to actually see them start up on the
parking apron, one always know knew when a ‘Vamp’ was about to
go flying by the unique sound of its DH Goblin engine, in complete
contrast to that of the Gloster Meteor T.Mk.7s and F.Mk.8s, their R-R
Derwents emitting their equally distinctive low moan as the
‘Meatboxes’ ambled round the peri-track to the main runway
threshold immediately opposite our vantage point. It provided
fascinated youth with a satisfying whiff of burned Kerosene, before
thundering off for the ride down most of the tarmac ahead of them.
The highest drama was when a Meteor FR.9 ‘arrived’ from the
other end of the runway, touched down far too late and went
through ‘our’ fence, across the road and into the cabbage field the
other side. ‘Prune’ arising from the cockpit looked a mixture of
embarrassment and ‘peed-off’ which the fire wagon arrived.
The Gloster Meteor was ‘the’ RAF jet fighter of the mid 1940s, well
into the next decade, becoming a straight winged fighter in a
swept-wing world and the early marks, particularly the Mks 3 and 4,
have a graceful sleekness of shape that was lost with the Mk.8 and
with the Night fighter NF.11 and 14.
Present day advances in lectric ducted fan power have made
scale jet modeling practical for the ‘everyday’ scale modeller and
straight winged jets have a real appeal. Some that come to mind, in
addition to those already mentioned here include the Lockheed F-
80 Shooting Star, McDonnell Banshee, Grumman F9F Panther, Hawker
Sea Hawk and Supermarine Attacker, so if the Meteor presented as
this month’s major construction feature is not on your electric
ducted fan must-build list, then there’s plenty of others to choose
from.
In praise of Gloster’s trailblazer though, it has to be said that the
early Mks, 3 and 4 had a real elegabce about them. Try it!
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