Flying Scale Models Issue 154 – September 2012

 4 CONTACT

News from the Scale scene

8 RUMPLER TAUBE

Full size FREE plan feature; Peter Rake’s 30” span

electric powered early WW1 warbird

12 AERONCA C.3

Bruce Corfe provides a close-up ‘Walk-Around’ of a wonderfull 1930s survivor that is a perenial favourite with scale modellers.

18 TECHNO SCALE

More Scale-related web sites to browse

20 FreE flight scale NATionalS

At dusk, on a lonely heath, Alex Whittaker observes the hard men of Free Flight Scale

26 FIAT CR.42 ’Falco’

WITH FLYING COLOURS

The World’s last fighter biplane to enter service offers Warbird enthusiasts a refreshing modelling challenge

34 FIAT CR.42 SCALE DRAWING

1:40 detailed three-views

36 FIAT CR.42 IN DETAIL

Close-up study for scale modellers

42 BOXKITE PROJECT PART 4

Part 4: Gary Sunderland flies his Bristol Boxkite

46 BEAUFIGHTER PART 2

Andy Ward concludes the construction of his 86” span Bristol Beaufighter

52 BEAUFIGHTER FLYING COLOURS

Another colour scheme to consider

53 BEAUFIGHTER IN DETAIL

A close-up detail study of the RAF Museum’s Mk.X

58 SCALE SOARING

Dreadful Summer (so far), equals no lift for aerotow scale soaring, but there’s still lift in then there hills

62 THE QUIET ZONE

Peter Rake continues his teach-in for electro flight beginners