ON THE COVER
VTOL – vertical take-off and landing – has been one of those model flying holy grails with plenty of near misses over the years. Perhaps it was always going to take a good brand like E-flite, to crack it, but crack it they really have and you can read all about their new Convergence starting on page 32
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TIGER 72
Spread over two sheets, Jim Newberry's 72” span sportster ticks all the boxes, it's big, very pretty and will soon become a firm favourite
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EASA have been busy and there's lots more in your monthly news round-up
COUNTERPOINT
Why not give a model a good home?
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GOING PLACES
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Two plans, we test Seagull's lovely Stearman, Danny Fenton visits Top Gun and plenty more!
COLUMNS
ON SILENT WINGS
Enjoying fabulous weather, Simon Cocker reports from the year's first aerotow fly-in at Middle Wallop
WIZARD OF OZ
As Brian Winch discovers, inadequate engine cooling can be very expensive!
WEEKENDERS
Whittaker terminates his undercarriage and finds an extraordinary Jungmeister
PAINLESS 360
Lee Schofield compares battery technologies and looks at the latest batch of new products
RETRO RAMBLINGS
Shaun Garrity with another retro round-up
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TRI-FILTER REFUELLER
Save heaps of cash by building your own fuel filling station with our easy workbench project
IN FOR A PENNY PT.3
That carefully constructed Xcalibur finally takes to the air
THE TRUFFLE HOUNDS OF SCALE
Whittaker reports from a busy Scale Free Flight Championship flightline
A SERVO SET-UP TRICK
How to use a digital servo checker to simplify flap set-up
CHUCKIE TO SCALIE
Phil Cooke transforms £8-worth of chuck glider into a scale sloper to be proud of
SAFE ARRIVALS
Getting the landing wrong can be expensive, Clive Hall explains how it's done using a technique that'll save all that embarassment
PARTING SHOT
A bad day at the fly-in
REVIEWS
CONVERGENCE
E-flite take the VTOL challenge!
S6R&S8R
FrSky's clever auto-stabilisation receivers
WILDCAT
E-flite's best micro warbird to date?
ISTONE GYRO
Staying on the straight and level with Dynam's new widget
YAK-3U
Seagull's new 60” span warbird awaits your 20cc engine
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