RCM&E February 2018 issue preview!

ON THE COVER

Sight, sounds and emotion. Some models stop you in your tracks and Dr Keith Mitchell's 21ft span Super Constellation is one such. Alex Whittaker caught it at the LMA's Elvington show last year so just turn to page 14 for all the highlights.


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MIGNON

Chris Reid's Foss-style sportster delivers minimal building and maximum flying

SIR JASPER

Shaun Garrity unearths a classic Arthur Searl design from 1970

VECTORCRAFT

Distinctly different is how you'd describe Max Zuijdendorp's new indoor racer


REGULARS

SWITCH ON

All the latest model flying news

COUNTERPOINT

More tempting new arrivals

ALL WRITE

Over to you…

GOING PLACES

Places to go – our up-to-date event listing 

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COLUMNS

WIZARD OF OZ

Brian Winch serves a reminder that model aircraft engines can bite

WEEKENDERS

Whittaker files his monthly modelling missive from a snowbound shed

SILENT WINGS

Simon Cocker reflects on a hearty slope-side scale bash


FEATURES

PILOTS’ PICTORIAL

Highlighting your projects

ENTERPRISING ELVINGTON

Alex Whittaker visits the show that gives Cosford a run for its money

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OFFICE WINDOW

Peter Miller reveals the simple jobs required to dress up a cockpit and create a windshield

PRACTICAL MODEL DESIGN PT.2

Lindsay Todd sharpens his crayons and gets to work

PUFFED OUT?

Suffering from puffy LiPos? You need Mike Freeman's guide to flatter packs

3D PRINTERS FOR BEGINNERS

Shaun Garrity is your guide…

MODEL MAGIC

Whittaker admires a superbly ambitious electric-powered scale twin

HARDMAN INNOVATION

Dave Roberts reports from the Lancashire film industry's far flung outpost

RETRO TECH

ESCs in the ‘good old days’


REVIEWS

EDGE 540 V3

Steve Sales makes acquaintance with a very pretty aerobat

WOT TRAINER V2

The refreshed trainer from the Foss/Ripmax partnership has plenty of refinements

F-18F

FMS’ new 70mm electric fan jet

 DH BEAVER

Josh Spiers flies one of the largest models to join FMS’ growing line up 


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