Radio Control Model Flyer Magazine Sept 2016 Vorige editie

SEPTEMBER 2016 NO.202
4 CONTACT
Just for starters
8 WACO 9
A 48” (1219mm) wingspan electric powered scale model
designed by Peter Rake,
12 MASTER MODELS: FLAIR TIGER MOTH
John Thomas’ classic kit built
18 Gloster GAUNTLET: PART 2
Jeff Harnoll completes construction of his 1/5th scale model of
the R.A.F.’s last open-cockpit fighter biplane
24 GAUNTLET SCALE DRAWING
1: 40 fine-line three-views
26 GAUNTLET FLYING COLOURS
The flamboyant colour schemes warn among the squadrons in
the mid-1930s
28 GAUNTLET TYPE HISTORY
Overshadowed by the later Gladiator, the Gauntlet was a
significant fighter aircraft in the mid/late 1930s
32 THE QUIET ZONE
Peter Rake offers an ideal scale starter-model for the coming
Indoor flying season, also good for balmy summer evening
outdoor flying
38 SWARMS
Bruce Corfe spends part of his year in Australia and always
enjoys this annual scale rally, not least because it is
predominantly Scale
42 THE FOKKER MONOPLANES: Part 1
Gary Sunderland continues to work his way through the myriad
range of early and WW1 aircraft types
46 SUBJECTS FOR SCALE: dart kitten
Highly regarded in the late 1930s for its fine flying
characteristics, the Kitten offers the scale modeller an elegant,
yet uncomplicated shape
54 DART kitten SCALE DRAWING
1:30 scale three-views
56 kitten IN DETAIL
Close-up photo study for scale modelling
60 BMFA free flight INDOOR scale
nationals 2016
Alex Whittaker attends the UK's premier Free Flight Scale indoor event