July 2016 No.200
4 CONTACT
Just for starters
6 FULL SIZE FREE PLAN FEATURE S.E. 2A
A relatively unknown type from WW1 designed by Peter Rake,
for electric power
10 BEFORE THE ‘FIVE’
We all know the S.E.5/S.E.5a as one of the more effective and
successful single seat fighting Scout aircraft of the later WW1
era, but few know much about the single seaters from the Royal
Aircraft Factory that pre-dated it
14 SE4A SCALE DRAWING
1:50 Scale three view
18 Master Models
Savoia-marchetti S.M. 79
Extreme make-over transforms single engine Miles
Sparrowhawk into Italian WW2 tri-motor bomber
28 ITALIAN SPARROWHAWK
S.M. 79 TYPE HISTORY
From airliner, to long distance racer and record setter, to front-line
bomber, this was possibly the hottest piston-engine tri-motor ever
34 S.M. 79 SCALE DRAWING
1:80 fine line scale three-views
36 S.M. 79 FLYING COLOURS
Military colours of the .’Sparviero’
40 TAYLORCRAFT BC-12
A contest-winning 1/4 scale replica of a classic high-wing lightplane,
designed by Phillip S. Kent for 1.20 to 1.50 four-strokes
48 TAYLORCRAFT SCALE DRAWING
1:40 thee-views
50 TAYLORCRAFT TYPE HISTORY
Phillip S. Kent traces the origins of the Taylorcraft range of light
aircraft and expains his own ‘discovery’ of the type as a subject
for scale modelling
52 TAYLORCRAFT IN DETAIL
Some close-up detail to make the most of the model
54 TECHNO SCALE
Web site surfing for scale info
56 PONTEFRACT scale weekend
Alex Whittaker attends the first R/C scale comp. of the season
62 THE QUIET ZONE
How to match the old brushed motor from the ‘dark ages’ of electric power, to present-day bushless types
