RCM&E editor Kevin Crozier talks through what’s coming up in the August issue.
Let’s see what we have lined up for you in this month’s RCM&E. First, we want to start with Bench Blog, which will sadly be Tim Hooper’s last column. Like us, we are sure that our regular readers will be sad to see Tim clear his famous work bench. Tim signs off in fine style with a throttled diesel conversion of a KK Ladybird. Next is Chris Williams (Scale Gliding) who battles the dire spring weather to test fly his new T31 Tandem Tutor glider. In Make It Scale, Danny Fenton concludes his reports from the Scale Indoor Nationals. This month Danny concentrates on the free flight scale models that flew around the hall before Dave Goodenough (One Man & His Shed) adds a clamp-on worktop to his field trolley for fettling models at the flying strip. Our final column this month is provided by Keith Jackson (Aerobatic Scene), who looks at flying the Double Immelmann manoeuvre.
For this month’s pull-out Pro-Plan we have another classic glider from Chris Williams, the Slingsby Type 23 Kite. As is usual with Chris’s plans there’s not enough space on one plan sheet to feature all of the model so we will be using the pull-out sheet in the September issue to complete this feature.
On review is a realistic looking airliner from XFly-Model. Powered by twin 40 mm EDFs the Twinliner looks just like the sort of aircraft that could well be transporting you to a favourite holiday hotspot soon.
Our features include part two of Ian Turney-White’s article on flying a 3/4 scale 1911 Deperdussin. David Ashby makes a welcome return with his report from the Bickley club’s gliding day before we join Peter Vivian, who made his first model engine using plans for the Holly Buddy 2.5 cc diesel engine. In a final flourish Dave Goodenough transports us back to last Autumn for the annual Ashbourne scale meeting.
I hope you enjoy reading it all.
Happy Flying!
