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FREE GIFT
FOR SUBSCRIBERS
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50!
2
SWING LOW!
ISSUE
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PEDULUM CONTROL
FOR FREE FLIGHT
SCALE
SYSTEMS PROVEN TO WORK
BY PAST MASTERS
TECHNIQUE
BIG BANG,
LITTLE BANG
…
THE WW1 ERA COOPER BOMB
AND ITS INSTALLATION
36” SPAN FOR ELECTRIC & 1:6TH SCALE, 56” SPAN FOR .25-.40 I/C
SUBJECT
FOR SCALE
DOUBLE
FEATURE:
SOPWITH CAMEL
ONE HUMP OR TWO?
C.A.C. WIRRAWAY
September 2020
No. 250 £5.99
9 771368 900066
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SCALE DRAWINGS
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SUPER DETAIL CLOSE-UPS
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COLOUR-UP CHOICES
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CAMEL AT WAR ON LAND AND AT SEA
KICK STARTER OF THE AUSTRALIAN
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SCALE DRAWINGS
AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY
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FLYING COLOURS
THE ISSUE AHEAD...
FLYING SCALE MODELS - THE WORLD’S ONLY MAGAZINE FOR SCALE MODEL FLYERS
Formation...
ON THE COVER
WHAT A STROKE OF LUCK!
When the Editor turned into the gate
at Old Warden a few weeks ago, the
Shuttleworth Museum’s Sopwith
Camel that he had arrived to
photograph in detail, was being
towed out to the take-off spot prior to
air test.. A great opportunity to see it
perform
SEPTEMBER 2020 N
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CONTACT
250 not out!
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SPORT SCALE MASTERCLASS PART 14
Got the legs for it! Gordon Whitehead deals with
undercarriages and the dreaded groundloop.
16 FULL SIZE PLAN FEATURE
SOPWITH CAMEL
A 36" span, electric-powered scale model, superbly built and test
flown by Gerald O'Docharty from a design by Peter Rake
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SOPWITH CAMEL TYPE HISTORY
Arguably the best known of all British WW1 fighter aircraft, the
Camel certainly had a reputation all its own
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A BIGGER CAMEL
An easy-to-build 1/6th scale 56" (1422mm) wingspan 'Camel' for
three or four channel radio and '25' to '40' sized engines, with a
rudder-only stability heritage, designed by BOB WRIGHT
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sopwith camel scale drawing
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1:40 scale detailed three views
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camel fighter colours
Three pages of colour scheme choices for Sopwith Camels in
RFC, RNAS and US Air Service
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CAMEL IN DETAIL
A close-up look at the pristine restored example on permanent
display at the R.A.F. Museum, Hendon
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The WW1-era cooper bomb
As the range of tasks for aircraft expanded during WW1, the
ground attack role became ever more important, for machine
gun straffing and bombing
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pendulum swing,
like a pendulum do...
Stability control for free flight scale. Systems proven to work
by past masters.
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SUBJECT FOR SCALE
C.A.C. WIRRAWAY
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FROM LITTLE ACORNS...the aircraft that kick-started the
Australian aviation industry
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WIRRAWAY FLYING COLOURS
Combat colour-up for a workhorse
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WIRRAWAY SCALE DRAWING
1:40 fine detail three views.
SEPTEMBER 2020
FLYING SCALE MODELS 3
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Tony Dowdeswell
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Peter Hutchinson
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250 NOT OUT!
I
t had not dawned on me until a couple of month’s ago, when
Peter, FSM’s graphic designer pointed out that we were
approaching our 250th issue of Flying Scale Models.
Back in 1997 with the launch issue, David Boddington was editor,
having been cajoled into taking on the task while he was away in
Australia at the time, so it was a phone-call appointment!
David did a first class job and there have only ever been two FSM
editors during the ensuing 23 years; he and I, which might, perhaps
be a bit of a record?
The cover of the first edition and for quite a number of further
issues had the cover image placed horizontally as shown below. The
U.S. magazine
Model Builder
, edited and published by the late Bill
Northrop had always carried the cover picture that way from their
issue No.1 and it seemed to me to be the right treatment for the
general shape of aeroplanes, that long and wide, rather than
narrow and tall as graphically require for a ‘portrait’ shaped cover
that is the norm, so I applied the ‘landscale’ format for FSM.
Somewhat later, the newstrade distributor we were using pressed
their view that the horizontal cover image format of the FSM cover
was a brake on copy sales and pressed us to conform to the norm.
So we did ... and it made not a blind bit of difference.
The moral of which is ... reach for the salt when there are ‘experts’
around!
In the years between Issue No.1, cover dated September 1997,
and the present ‘Monthly Miracle’ it’s always been a lot of fun, with
innumerable memorable experiences. Most notable to be filed
away in memory from this month’s issue that majors on the Sopwith
Camel, has perhaps been the conversation last month with
Shuttleworth Air Museum’s Chief Pilot Roger ‘Dodge’ Bailey at the
end of an air test of the Museum’s authentic Camel replica.
His expressed views, about the flying qualities of the Camel were
more than somewhat less than a ringing endorsement. By today’s
exacting standards even for military front line combat aircraft, one
wonders how the Camel ever reached Squadron service. But things
were different back then.
For me, it’s the kind of stuff that makes the flying scale model
hobby so fascinating.
NOW, FOR ME, IT’S UP TO THE TOY ROOM UNTIL IT’S TIME
TO WIND THE STARTING HANDLE FOR FSM ISSUE No.251!
(c) Copyright Flying Scale Models 2020
Doolittle Media.
The paper used on this title is from
sustainable forestry
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