Radio controlled model world august 2016

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EAST KIRKBY & LONG MARSTON PLAN FEATURE!

SLINGSBY T42 EAGLE

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INTRODUCING 1:4 SCALE DRAWINGS FOR THIS 174 INCH SPAN MODEL OF A CLASSIC BRITISH SOARER

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Contents 12 SHOP WINDOW

A look at the latest R/C products

22 SCALE SOARING

Vintage gliding topics covered this month by Chris Williams include a report from the White Sheet Scale Fly-In in April and a tribute to master scale sailplane designer Cliff Charlesworth

46 LIGHT FLIGHT

John Stennard builds a Hornet flying wing with which to hone his FPV flying skills. Plus he describes uses for decorative Duck tape!

67 SOARERS’ SLOT FRONT COVER

Neil Hutchinson can always be relied upon to take some great shots of models seen in action at the Large Model Association flying events. Here Neil has captured the evocative de Havilland DH90 Dragonfly built by Steve Rickett. The majority of the model is of standard wooden construction but it does use some fibreglass parts, such as the engine cowls and wheel spats, all made using Steve’s own moulds. Neil says that the 157" wingspan Dragonfly looks fabulous in flight and once Steve has finished off the cockpit it will be hard to tell it from the real thing.

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REGULARS

Mike Proctor visits Portugal to take part in an F5J World Cup event and receives news from Robin Sleight of an electrified version of a 1960 Open Power model originally designed by Tom Smith for an Eta 29

102 THE SPORT CHANNEL

Another batch of sport and nostalgic model topics, as selected

by Gray

109 DIARY DATES

Last of the summer model shows, club sales and flying competitions

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REVIEWS

Introducing this issue R/C model flying news and views

Looking forward to the September issue

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We flight test a small 398 mm wingspan Fokker from Ares that incorporates a Hitec Red 2.4 GHz radio system. This means that it is compatible with all current 2.4 GHz Hitec transmitters – or just fly it using the Ares Tx supplied!

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79 BELL 407

When Roban introduced their 700-size Bell 407, Jon Tanner ordered his in striking green!

In the first of a two-part review he describes the build of the four-bladed LongRanger

84 SOKAR

Rumour has it that FPV racing quads are fast becoming the next big thing. We jumped aboard the hype train with Sky RC’s latest ready-to-fly racer to try one for ourselves

FEATURES 28 A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO ELECTRONIC SPEED CONTROLLERS Part two of Brian Collins’ article offers more advice on choosing, fitting and operating the right ESC for your latest electric model

32 LONG MARSTON 2016

The popular Midlands model show kicks off our event reports for the 2016 summer season

38 SLINGSBY T42 EAGLE

In the first instalment of a two part plan feature Chris Williams describes the build of his 174 inch wingspan, quarter scale classic sailplane, the full size design of which dates back to the mid-1950s

50 THE WHEEL DEAL

Chris Bowler shows how to make a working scale undercarriage for a model of a light aircraft such as the Druine Turbulent using readily available parts and simple hand tools

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56 BOLT

When electric aficionado John Rutter found himself with a clean running AP 0.15 Hornet glow engine spare, which had been converted to diesel, an aerobatic design for it soon rolled off his drawing board. This smart 920 mm span V-tail sportster for four function R/C is the result

64 MESSERSCHMITT ME 262

Peter Iliffe shows us his latest WW2 micro jet

72 FIELD STAND

Mike Chambers describes a simple to make fold-up model stand that has been designed and used by members of the Medina Model Flying Club

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76 TRAPLET SCALE AT PONTEFRACT

Phillip Kent reports from the Yorkshire leg of the Traplet ‘War of the Roses’ scale competition

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88 VIPER XXL

In the Model Spotlight! We take a close look at Simon Potter’s big, beautiful Tomahawk jet

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Neil Hutchinson starts his coverage of this year’s LMA events with a visit to the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, East Kirkby on May Day Bank Holiday weekend

96 DEPRON DIARY

Anthony Bennett shows how he designs and makes R/C model aeroplanes using Depron as his main building material of choice

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Continuing with his short series on sport flying with racing quadcopters, John Stennard looks at setting up a quad’s flight controller

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LMA At East Kirkby The 2016 Large Model Association air show season began with its regular visit to the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, East Kirkby on May Day Bank Holiday weekend. Neil Hutchinson, our regular LMA correspondent, reports from the flight line

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In the warbirds slot John Veasey flew his Hawker Hurricane, a Tony Nijhuis design of 104" wingspan. The detail on this model is excellent

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FLIGHT LINES

Above & left: Steve Rickett with his new de Havilland Dragonfly

Above & right: CARF Corsair of Tony Hooper. The Corsair features a folding wing system, which Tony operates as the Corsair taxis out to the runway and the Moki five cylinder radial petrol engine sounds superb

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t seems a very long time between the last large model show at Much Marcle and East Kirkby. The gap seems even longer with the demise of the Barkston Christmas fly-in! The show flying would follow the usual format, open to public viewing on the Saturday and the Bank Holiday Monday, Sunday is set aside for an LMA fly-in and barbeque. This is because of local site rules, which mean members of the public are not allowed on site. The barbeque is open to all LMA members and is put on by local members Paul Needham and his faithful team of helpers.

The weather forecast for the weekend was not good, so there was going to be some improvisation. As it turned out Saturday’s weather was fairly good, apart from the odd rainstorm in the afternoon and so things ran along the normal display themes. Monday was very windy and pilots would fly ‘off the peg’.

Being the first show of the season, as you might expect there would be one or two new models. This year’s East Kirkby show was no

Above & left: An unusual looking aircraft, the Bede BD8 built by Doug Rigby and now owned by Paul Needham exception. There were several new models and one or two old models that have not seen the light of day for some time but are now under new ownership.

Steve Carr debuted another huge aerobatic model of the Yak 54 built from the Pilot RC range of ARTF kits. Steve’s Yak is one of the largest in their range, with a wingspan of 180 inches. However, you can start small and get a 53" version of this model. The 550 cc petrol engine was designed by Steven, using two 3W 275 cc pistons and cylinders. He’s also constructed his own exhaust and smoke system too and there are also smoke canisters on each wing. One other interesting feature of the Yak is the pilot figure in the cockpit. The pilot is a 3D copy of Steve Carr himself!

Another new model was the de Havilland DH90 Dragonfly built by Steve Rickett. I’ll openly admit to being a lover of all things de Havilland. They built such beautiful and elegant looking aircraft and Steve has captured that elegance with this superb model. Steve has put a lot of time and effort

into this model, as usual. The majority of the model is standard wooden construction but there are fibreglass parts, such as the engine cowls, wheel spats etc. made by Steve from moulds that he made.

The engine cowls are, in particular, worth mentioning. The side panels open much like the real aircraft to give access to the Kohn EZ50 petrol engines. Steve also manufactured the undercarriage too. The 157" wingspan Dragonfly looks fabulous in flight and once Steve has finished off the cockpit it’ll be hard to tell it from the real thing in the air!

Ian Turney-White is another builder of large – or perhaps I should say extremely large – models! Ian’s latest is a 2/3rd scale Scheibe SF33 motor glider. It is based on the sole surviving SF33, which is still flying in Canada. The model building process has taken sometime because Ian tells me he started it 20 years ago!

The model is made to measure – it just fits into a Volkswagen Sprinter van and the fuselage makes it in by just one inch! www.rcmodelworld.com

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