04 HEARD AT THE HANGAR DOORS
EDITORIAL, NEWS AND VIEWS.
06 POWER UP 4.0 REVIEW
JOHN STENNARD REVIEWS THE POWER UP 4.0
SYSTEM, A COMPREHENSIVE KIT OF PARTS THAT
ARE SUITABLE FOR THE CONTROL OF SMALL
MODELS AND PAPER PLANES FROM A MOBILE
PHONE APP.
10 COMPOSITE PROPELLER MANUFACTURE FOR
PERFORMANCE MODELS PART 2
IN THE FINAL PART OF THIS 2 PART SERIES,
BARRIE LEVER DESCRIBES THE PRODUCTION OF A
PROPELLER FROM THE MOULD TOOL THAT WAS
DESCRIBED IN PART 1 LAST MONTH.
14 CREATING A BALSA PROPELLER
IN CONTRAST TO THE PRECEDING ARTICLE
ON MAKING COMPOSITE PROPELLERS, ANDY
SEPHTON DESCRIBES THE TECHNIQUES INVOLVED
IN CARVING BALSA PROPELLERS, AND LOOKS AT
HOW PROPS ACTUALLY WORK.
18 FREE PLAN – THE MIGHTY MIDGET BY LEIGH
RICHARDSON
IN LAST MONTH’S AEROMODELLER WE FEATURED
ALLAN PATRICK’S RC BOWDEN MIDGET.
THIS MONTH WE HAVE HIGHLY RESPECTED
AEROMODELLING HISTORIAN AND ‘SAM SPEAKS’
EDITOR LEIGH RICHARDSON’S VERSION,
DESIGNED AND BUILT AS A FREE FLIGHT MODEL.
LEIGH’S BEAUTIFULLY DRAWN PLAN IS BASED
ON THE LATE TONY PENHALL’S DRAWING OF
THE MIGHTY MIDGET, AND ENDORSED AT THE
TIME BY COLONEL BOWDEN’S WIDOW GRACE
BOWDEN. HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO BUILD THIS
LEGENDARY COLONEL BOWDEN DESIGN.
28 THE OBSESSIVE BUILDER’S DIARY 5
JOHN PERIC PRESENTS THE 5TH INSTALLMENT
OF HIS QUARTERLY SERIES ON BUILDING AND
FLYING. THIS TIME HE DESCRIBES THE DESIGN
AND CONSTRUCTION OF A VARIANT OF HIS RCM
TRAINER JUNIOR, USING AN EPPLER AIRFOIL, AND
INVESTIGATES JUST HOW SMALL THIS DESIGN
COULD BE SCALED TO. JOHN ALSO EXPLAINS
WHY THE 1903 WRIGHT FLYER WAS ALMOST
IMPOSSIBLE TO FLY!
36 THE KEIL KRAFT SENATOR STORY – PART 1
DAVE HIPPERSON PRESENTS THE HISTORY OF THE
LEGENDARY KEIL KRAFT SENATOR. IN PART 1 OF
THIS SERIES DAVE COVERS THE BACKGROUND TO
THE SENATOR’S INTRODUCTION, AND OFFERS A
FEW RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OPTIMISING THE
PERFORMANCE OF THE MODEL FOR FREE FLIGHT
MINI VINTAGE CONTESTS.
40 GORDON BURFORD’S WOMBAT CL STUNTER
MARIS DISLERS DESCRIBES THE CL VINTAGE
STUNT ‘WOMBAT’. THE WOMBAT IS UNUSUAL
FOR A CL STUNT DESIGN IN THAT IT IS A BIPLANE.
MARIS HAS WON THE VINTAGE STUNT EVENT AT
THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONALS SEVERAL TIMES IN
RECENT YEARS USING THIS MODEL.
43 UP & COMING
CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
44 SCALE MATTERS
PETE FARDELL REPORTS ON NEW WINTER
BUILDS FROM MIKE STUART, MIKE SMITH AND
HIS OWN SHORT S.42/M2 MONOPLANE. PETE
ALSO LOOKS FORWARD TO A NUMBER OF THE FF
SCALE EVENTS THAT ARE COMING UP.
50 TAIL END CHARLIE
THE THOUGHTS OF CHRIS OTTEWELL
