Contents...
REGULARS
PRE FLIGHT
Introducing this issue
TAKE OFF
Latest R/C model flying news
SHOP WINDOW
A look at the latest R/C products
DIARY DATES
Get ready for winter with our latest list of indoor model flying events
THE SPORT CHANNEL
Gray reports from North Cotswold MAC’s summer ‘Fly For Fun’ event REVIEWS
MASTER STICK
Frank Skilbeck tests Hacker Model Production’s high wing sports aerobat to the limit – and beyond! Thank goodness for its resilient EPP foam construction...
HATS & BOOTS
We prepare for winter flying with a look at some new fleece lined beanie hats and a pair of EVA moulded welly boots
REPRAPPRO FISHER
Mal Luff tests an affordable 3-D printer and makes his own scale model accessories. The results are surprisingly good and when painted would make even the simplest of subjects really stand out on the flight line
FEATURES
WARBIRDS OVER THE BEACH
‘Mossie’ enthusiast, Neil Hutchinson crosses the Atlantic to see one of the last remaining de Havilland Mosquitos in flight at the Military Aviation Museum’s airshow, Warbirds Over The Beach
TRAPLET OPEN SCALE 2015
Peter Maw reports from the Traplet ‘War of the Roses’ competitions hosted by the Pontefract and District Flyers and Bickershaw MFC. Who was best – east or west?
RETURN OF THE RED BARON
Donatas Paužuolis interviews Depron wizard Jürgen Schönle about his fabulous half scale Depron Fokker Triplane
FITTING OUT A WW1 SCALE COCKPIT
Grahame Wren shows how to add those all important scale touches to the instrument panel of a WW1 scout
GOLD FEVER
Peter Miller’s semi-scale Formula 1 racer for .20 to .25 engines is fast, aerobatic and easy to build
YORK ELECTRIC FLY-IN
Bruce Corfe attends another successful EP fly-in at the York Model Aeroplane Society's Wilberfoss flying site
MESSERSCHMITT BF 109E
If you’ve built Adrian Britton‘s Spitfire, which was the free plan in our R/C Warbirds Special, here is its classic opponent
QUADCOPTER QUANDRY
Our tame ‘Brit In Brittany’, Dave Goodenough helps out with a drone rescue and goes in search of a pilot with soggy boots!
ON WITH THE SHOW
Dave Bishop of DB Sound recalls how he learnt to leave a competition model’s trim settings well alone
ROBERT MAHONEY MEMORIAL ELECTRIC FLY-IN
Dave Chinery reports from the annual Southern Area Electric Fly-In, held in memory of its late organiser, Robert Mahoney
MISTAKES WE MAKE
From South Africa, Chris Freeman shows how simple errors can make an R/C model aircraft unflyable, and how to fix those mistakes
A FIRST TIME VIEW...
Of the BMFA Nationals. Vaughn Entwistle attends his first ‘Power Nats’ and discovers what makes this mass celebration of model flying so special
SCALE MODEL BUILDING FOR FUN
Peter Maw completes his Fokker DVIII build from Traplet plan MW3599 and adds an Eagle Tree gyro system for easier take-offs and landings
FOKKER EINDECKER
In his latest ‘Model Spotlight’ feature, Mark Beacham talks to Hermann Wirtz about his fabulous Fokker EIII, complete with wing warping flight control!
UPDATING A CLASSIC
Chris Freeman and his fellow club members have fun going back to basics with their enlargements of the Vic Smeed designed Tomboy
