RCM&E’s February 2021 issue

RADIO CONTROL MODELS AND ELECTRONICS

VOLUME 64 ISSUE 2

ON THE COVER Flying models of the Pfalz DIII or DIIIa are rather thin on the ground. If you look at the original you get an inkling of why that is so – the moulded plywood fuselage, the large spinner and the lozenge covering. But there are modellers who thrive on such challenges and Mário Vilaça is one such hardy soul.

REGULARS

SWITCH ON Our latest round up of model flying news

COUNTERPOINT A fresh selection of new gadgets, kits and bits for your consideration

ALL WRITE Have your say in RCM&E’s monthly chat room

PILOTS' PICTORIAL Send us a picture of your favourite model and get it pinned up in our regular readers' models gallery

R/C MARKETPLACE Shift those unwanted airframes and engines, and splash out on a few new ones

NEXT ISSUE Take a look at what's coming in the March issue of RCM&E

PARTING SHOT Wrapping things up with a fine autumnal view

REVIEWS

MIG 29 Arrows Hobby raises its game with the release of this twin EDF jet. David Ashby straps in

SIMPLE CUB Stuart Marsden falls for a pleasing Piper built from the VMC 'Balsa Basics' kit

NGH GF38 Frank Skilbeck offers a club modeller's perspective of a recently purchased four stroke petrol engine

FEATURES

STEARMAN PT-17 Alex Whittaker admires Davie Fisher’s immaculate model of Boeing's initial trainer

MINIATURE GEMS Alex Whittaker celebrates Indoor F/F scale models and recommends them as possible winter projects

CUTTING A DASH Brian Hoddy reveals some of his secrets for making a realistic scale instrument panel and cockpit components

CONTRA PROP CACOPHONY Jeff Barringer fits his Sea Fury with contra-rotating motors and revels in the distinctive noise

LASER-CUT LANCASTER Tony Nijhuis describes the creation of a 1:1 Lancaster nose section based on the TND plan of the famous Avro bomber

PFALZ DIIIa Arnaldo Correia takes a close look at one of the regular performers with the Spanish Dawn Patrol, built by Mário Vilaça

TIDY TURBULENT In our series on scale models built by our readers, Ian Smith completes a clubmate's favourite ultralight aircraft

COLUMNS

MAKE IT SCALE Danny Fenton heads for the bright lights of Blackpool to compete in his first F4C competition

WEEKENDERS Tiring of the lockdowns but safe in his shed, Alex Whittaker is back in the workshop

BENCH BLOG Completing his Gipsy rubber model, Tim Hooper cuts tissue trim by computer and makes a laminated propeller

FREE PRO-PLAN

RV-4 Andy Blackburn offers up a neat sub 350W version of the Vans Aircraft homebuilt


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