April 2024
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by Web Admin
2w ago
Editor Kevin Crozier shares what’s coming up in the April 2024 issue of RCM&E. We’ve got lots in store for you this month so let’s go straight in for a quick look at the main features starting with our regular columnists. Tim Hooper (Bench Blog) builds a new version of his all-time favourite model design, the Antares, built from a plan featured in a 1973 Radio Modeller. Chris Williams (Scale Gliding) test flies his new 1:6 scale Skylark glider before launching straight into two new designs. You just can’t keep the man away from his building board! Next, Danny Fenton (Make It Scale ..read more
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Manx Queen | Modifying & building a tailless design from 1947
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by Shaun Garrity
1M ago
Shaun Garrity steps back in time and modifies an attractive tailless design for electric power and three channel radio control. words & photos » Shaun Garrity Back in the late 1940s one SMAE competition used to get the creative juices flowing in aeromodellers. Known as the Pterodactyl Cup it was specifically for tailless power models, with contests held at Fairlop and Eaton Bray. These were free flight aircraft with no radio guidance, so stability and excellent flight manners were crucial. The competition winning Manx Queen was designed in 1947 by A.H. Wilson (they were very formal back t ..read more
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March 2024
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by Alex Bestwick
1M ago
Editor Kevin Crozier shares what’s coming up in the March 2024 issue of RCM&E. As usual we have a wide selection of articles about R/C aeromodelling for you to enjoy, so let’s take a quick look at what you will find inside, starting with our regular columns. Shaun Garrity (Retro Ramblings) starts the ball rolling with a look at his latest project to restore a British Army radio controlled target drone to airworthy condition. Danny Fenton (Make It Scale) makes a plug for moulding a Chipmunk cowl from green florists’ foam before Dave Goodenough (One Man & His Shed) pops out of his ..read more
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Testing a vintage seaplane: Leprechaun V3
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by Alex Bestwick
2M ago
As David Ashby discovers, when it comes to vintage gliders bigger is indeed better… Designed by Dick Twomey as a large 90” span, low aspect ratio free-flight glider, Leprechaun featured in the March 1950 issue of Aeromodeller. Typical for plan features of the time there’s little detail apart from impressive flight recordings. Twomey’s original flew for 20 minutes O.O.S. (out of sight) on its maiden outing from a tow line, the magazine noting that a 2.5hr, 22-mile flight was also later recorded. The plan is out there along with Leprechaun kits in various sizes from several makers. This one is ..read more
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February 2024
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by Alex Bestwick
2M ago
Editor Kevin Crozier shares what’s coming up in the February 2024 issue of RCM&E. Welcome to the February 2024 issue of RCM&E. This will be the first issue to reach you in 2024 so the time is ripe to wish all of our loyal readers and advertisers a very happy and prosperous New Year. In this issue we are very pleased to bring you the first of a two-part Pro-Plan for the stylish SZD Foka 4 sailplane and an accompanying feature on its build by our classic glider guru Chris Williams. On test this month we have the Avanti mini sports jet from Arrows models, which is a fabulous looking ..read more
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January 2024
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by Alex Bestwick
3M ago
Editor Kevin Crozier shares what’s coming up in the January 2024 issue of RCM&E. Let’s take a brief look at what we have prepared for you in the January issue of RCM&E, starting with our regular columns. In this month’s ‘Scale Gliding’, Chris Williams resumes his slope-side bungee launching experiments. But first he reports from June’s ‘White Sheet’ scale fly-in. Next is ‘Make It Scale’ in which Danny Fenton looks at modelling logistics as he kits out his new modelling van, before Shaun Garrity covers another batch of vintage model topics in ‘Retro Ramblings’, plus he offers up a full ..read more
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December 2023
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by Alex Bestwick
4M ago
Welcome to the December 2023 issue of RCM&E. Wow! Another year gone already. I hope you have enjoyed all the columns, reviews, features and event reports that we have dished up for you this year. There’s plenty more of the same lined up for next year so here’s to 2024! But before then let’s take a brief look at what we have prepared for you in the December issue of RCM&E, starting with our regular columns. In his latest Bench Blog, Tim Hooper returns to his O&R sparkie project and fettles a few accessories using his new machine tools. Then it’s over to One Man & His Shed wher ..read more
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Delta Lady
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by Alex Bestwick
5M ago
Shaun Garrity describes the build of a favourite delta slope soarer from the 1970s words & photos >> Shaun Garrity My passion for flying wings and deltas is long standing. This was recently re-affirmed when I came across an old Delta Lady kit on one of the ‘Bring & Buy’ stalls at an Old Warden Modelair flying event last year. Back in 1979, as a 23-year-old, I remember seeing Delta Lady for the first time on our local slope. This 54” wingspan, plan built, Vulcan-esque delta slope soarer immediately struck a chord as it cut an impressive silhouette hurtling across the skies above ..read more
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November 2023
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by Alex Bestwick
5M ago
Time now to take a brief look at what we have lined up for you in the November issue of RCM&E, starting with our regular columns. In his latest Retro Ramblings, Shaun Garrity finally gets his mouse vandalised Kwik Fly 3 back in the sky, plus he covers tachometers, home built radios and the Pontefract Retro event. Then it’s over to Graham Ashby and Kick The Tyres in which Graham covers another selection of club orientated affairs. For this month’s centre fold Pro-Plan, Tony Nijhuis returns with the fourth EDF jet in his latest series of TN Mini Jets. The aircraft modelled by Tony this tim ..read more
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October Issue
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by Alex Bestwick
7M ago
Time now to take a brief look at what we have lined up for you in the October issue of RCM&E, starting with our regular columns. Kicking off with Bench Blog, Tim Hooper works up another unusual model, this time in the shape of a flying car! In Make It Scale, Danny Fenton gives some talks at the Festival of Scale then continues with his Chipmunk build. Next up is One Man & His Shed, inside of which Dave Goodenough shows how to flip a partial model plan (i.e., one wing only), such as is sometimes used with our pull-out Pro-Plans. He also powers up his beginner’s glider with a low-cost b ..read more
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