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Often confused for the aircraft Charles Lindberg made famous, Ryan’s Brougham mini airliner is another of those evocative Golden Age machines that model so well. This is Martin Fardell’s ne scratch-built example that flew at the 2015 National Model Flying Championships and worth close inspection on page 120
Photo: Alex Whittaker
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SONNY 1500
If your model flying awareness started in the 1960s then, chances are, you built and ew a Sonny – Graupner’s little free flight glider. Ton Van Munsteren certainly did and if you fancy returning to the simple pleasures then his enlarged, easily- built, 2-channel update is just
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The classic Ken Binks-designed F3A aerobat from the 1980s is now a trad’ kit and Peter Burgess was first in the queue!
Dave Burton flies a simulator for serious multirotor pilots
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TECHIE CHIC
Alex Whittaker feels the vibe at the UK’s premier indoor aerobatic event
TEST RIG
Isn’t it time you found out what your electric power system gets up to?
PAINLESS MULTIROTORS
Starting a new series for multirotor builders, Lee Scho eld outlines the flight controller options
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OPEN TX COMPANION
In another new series, Martin Phillips guides tyros through the new radio programming software that has rapidly gained a large and growing user base
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Battery charging explained
MODEL MAGIC
Martin Fardell’s evocative Golden Era lion-hauler
R/C through the lens
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ON SILENT WINGS
Simon Cocker soars dynamically and lobs a very large warthog
WIZARD OF OZ
Silencer refusing to stay put? Brian Winch is on the case
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Whittaker visits the single-channel button-pushers of Ponty
BENCH BLOG
Tim Hooper has a Tiger Moth update and does the unthinkable
JET THRUST
Bob Petrie installs a set of lights and cures the Winter weather blues by doing the only thing possible
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