June 2016 No.199
4 CONTACT
Just for starters
8 SCRATCH BUILT STORCH
Alex Whittaker admires Derrick Lane’s immaculate
hand-crafted 1/6th scale Fieseler Fi 156
14 HOBBICO TACTIC ANYLINK 2
Compatibility Unlimitted! Take any 2.4GHz Radio and the
Tactic ANY LINK2 Radio Adaptor allows SLT Rx compatibility
– and full Tx flexibility…
18 FULL SIZE FREE PLAN FEATURE
BELLANCA SKYROCKET
A 36″ span electric powered model designed by Peter Rake,
with the prototype built and flown by Pat O’Donnell
22 KIT REVIEW
HOBBICO CANADAIR CL-84 DYNAVERT
Flyzones EP Tilt-Wing from Hobbico that offers a whole new
dimension to fixed wing scale flying!
28 SUBJECTS FOR SCALE
FAIREY FIREFLY
Created as a Fleet Day Fighter, the Firefly proved readily
adaptable for other combat tasks and achieved a long
service career
34 FIREFLY SCALE DRAWING
1:60 scale three-views
36 FIREFLY FLYING COLOURS
Warpaint for Firefiles carried in service with the air-arms of
many nations
40 TAMING A WALRUS
John Ralph relates his conversion of a free flight Vickers
Supermarine Walrus to radio control for rise-off-water flight
47 WALRUS COLOUR schemes
Walrus colours in peacetime and war
50 walrus scale drawing
1:60 three-view drawing
52 SCALE SOARING
Chris Williams enjoys more maiden flights, tests a new onboard
video cameras … and builds two identical wing panels!
56 GREENACRES scale 2015
Alex Whittaker looks back at his visit in the Midlands, to some
relaxed scale action
62 QUIET ZONE
With the Indoor flying season ending, Peter Rake offers a primer of what he may present later in the year when it’s ‘back-indoors’ flying time again