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ON THE COVER
The Fairey Gannet was one of the
largest aircraft ever to be generally
opeartional with the Royal Navy’s
Fleet Air Arm. It’s and aircraft and
a subject for scale modelling quite
out of the ordinarg for anyone
looking for simething more than
just a bit different. Full
construction feature in this issue.
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CONTACT
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Just for starters
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SPORT SCALE MASTERCLASS
Part 6: Scaling up from three-view drawings
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SOPWITH TRIPLANE
A truly international effort created this 45” wingspam electric
powered model deigned by the late Peter Rake, with test
models built by Robert Hossman in USA and Rodd Perrin in
Australia
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Sopwith Triplane Type History
Manoeuvrability, rate of climb and maximum all-round visibility
have always been prime requisites for fighter aircraft. The
triplane configuration was Sopwith Aviation Company’s answer
in 1916
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TRIPLANE IN DETAIL
The Northern Aero Works’ authentic replica is the subject of this
close-up study
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TRIPLANE WARPAINT
Combat colour schemes
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Sopwith triplane scale drawing
1:40 scale three-view
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technoscale
Scale content web sites worth a browse
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fairey gannet as 1
A 1/8th scale 81" span (2057mm) sport scale model of the
Royal Navy's last fixed wing Anti-Submarine Search aircraft for
1.08-1.20 cu.in. engines designed by MIKE LOVELL
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fairey gannet type history
The Royal Navy’s last fixed-wing submarine hunter
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gannet AS 1 scale draWING
1:40 Scale three-view
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Gannet c0lour schemes
Fleet Air Arm, Royal Australian Navy, German Bundesmarine
and Indonesian military schemes
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Fairey Gannet in detail
All the detail needed for top-notch surface detail
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THE QUITE ZONE
The German Junkers Company adopted their corrugated metal
skin as a means of injecting strength and lightness into an
airframe as far back as 1915 - then ran with the concept right
up to the end of WW2.. BOB PARKER demonstrates a way to
reproduce that distinctive feature for scale models using
corrugated cardboard
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SOME LIKE IT COMPLICATED!
For many of us, keeping it simple is a good guide to success, not
just in our scale modelling, but also in most things. Even so, it’s
fascinating to read about and admire the ingenuity and
determination of anyone who rises to the challenge of making a
success of incorporating into a scale model a range of workable
functions that were part of the full size aircraft’s reason for existence.
The Fairey Aviation Company’s Gannet is our lead construction
feature in this issue. The Gannet was first developed as a carrier
borne anti-submarine type for the Fleet Air Arm back in the days
when the Royal Navy still had a sizable aircraft carrier force and I
can still remember prototypes of the Gannet AS 1 and its more
ungainly looking Blackburn YB-1 competitor performing at the then
annual Farnborough Air Shows back in the early/mid 1950s.
Getting back to the model though, ingenious designer Mike Lovell
managed to incorporate deployable radar dome and arrester hook,
working weapons bay doors and droppable torpedoes, plus flaps
and dummy contra-rotating propeller system all of which were part
of the Gannet’s functionality.
The wing-fold is manual though and one look as the Gannet with
the wings, so set, is enough to tell you why!
The Gannet was very much a front line part for post-WW2 British
naval aviation, serving with the Fleet from 1955 until 1978 when
when the RoyalNavy’s last aircraft carrier capable of operationg the
type was pensioned off.
Now, our Navy has two very different aircraft carriers but, as I
write this piece I also read in one of the better informed, more
authoritative Sunday newspapers that planning by military top-
rankers for a new round of cuts is being quietly undertaken in which,
Army will be paired back, the RAF will be largely dependent on
drones and that one of our new aircraft carriers will be put up for
hire, possibly to the U.S.Navy.
Perhaps that’s the ultimate in Air B & B! Fools to the left of me,
fools to the right ...!
WRICKLES ALL OVER
Aviation pioneer Professor Hugo Junkers was indeed a great
innovator and lateral thinker; also one of the early aviation pioneers
in Germany. Even prior to WW1, Prof. Junkers developed a theory of
aircraft construction that eschewed the then prevalent aircraft
construction methods involving wood, fabric and bracing wires in
which much of the strength of the airframe was in the corrugated
sheet metal skins. The first flyable example was the Junkers J.1
monoplane of 1915, followed by the J.2 using the same
construction.
Junkers continued to follow this thread with other, post WW1
designs, the most memorable of which, today, is certainly the
Ju
52 tri-motor, the Luftwaffe’s workhorse during WW2.
Replicating that surface detail is another of scale modelling’s
challenges, one answer to which, using corrugated cardboard is
explained in this issue. And if that’s not enough there’s a very
different and even more lateral-thinking answer to the problem in
store of February issue, but we’ll leave you guessing on that one!
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