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ON THE COVER
Still airworthy, and occasional
Shuttleworth Air Museum’s Old
Warden air show performer, the 1934
MacRobertson Londo-to-Melbourne
Air Race winner, G-ACSS has a
racey gracefulness all of it’s own. At
the moment it’s undergoing work in
the Old Warden workshop, which is
why our ‘Subject for Scale’ this month
lacks an ‘In Detail’ photo study.
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CONTACT
Just for starters
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SPORT SCALE MASTERCLASS PART 17
The power to perform; matching propeller to model and engine
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BERNARD 74
Dr. MIKE HAWKINS FRAeS
starts a two-part construction feature on
a little-known product of the 1930s French aircraft industry
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BERNARD 74 TYPE HISTORY
An early pointer to monoplane fighter design even though it
never progressed beyond prototype stage. Mike Hawkins tells
the story
16
SCALE SOARING
Our columnist finally gets to a collective scale sailplane flyfest
20
BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER PART 3
The retracting main undercarriage of Andy Ward’s
Beaufighter.. Techniques and mechanism may be a good
starting point for other scale models with similar retracting
action
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BEAUFIGHTER SCALE DRAWING
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1:70 three-views covering various marks, 1 to 10.
30 PULL-OUT PLANS
DE HAVILLAND DH53 HUMMING BIRD
25" (635mm) wingspan jewel originally, designed for CO2
power but ideal for equivalent electric or even rubber power.
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TYPE HISTORY: DH53
Designed to an imaginative, but impractical specification, and
built in small numbers when aviation was still in its infancy
41
Humming bird scale drawing
1:40 scale three-view drawing
44
subjects for scale:
DH 88 comet
Purpose designed for a fleeting, if dramatic event, the design
prompted advances in wooden aiframe construction that
led to the de Havilland Mosquito
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DH88 racing colours
Colour schemes carried by the Comet MacRobertson racers
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DH 88 comet scale drawing
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fine detail 1:60 three-views of the 1934 MacRobertson Race
winner G-ACSS.
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spad XIII Part 1
A 54" span, 1/6th scale for electric power, designed by Peter
Rake, with the prototype model built and test flown by Charlie Bice.
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spad XIII type history
France’s most potent fighter of WW1 has not really received
the acclaim it deserves
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AH, De HAVILLAND!
October 7th, just passed, marked
the Centenary of the formation of
one of the most universally known
‘names’ in British aviation history,
the
De Havilland Aircraft Company
,
officially formed on that date in
1920.
Ten years previously on October
7th 1910, Geoffrey De Havilland
had made his first successful flight in
an aircraft he had designed and
constructed himself, flown at a site
near, Newbury, in Hampshire. That
Centenary event was celebrated
with a fly-in of De Havilland aircraft
types near that site back in 2010
which FSM featured in our
November 2010 issue.
That ‘first’ was in fact a ‘second
first’ really, since G. de H’s true,
though not really successful short
‘hop’ actually took place on
December 1909 at a different site,
Long Barrow, also near Newbury,
ending in the wreck his ‘flying
machine’ that had been financed
by his Grandfather.
It is therefore fitting that this ,
month’s FSM majors in two De
Havilland types, the diminutive
DH53 Humming Bird, and the DH88
Comet, the latter, winner of thr 1934
MacRobertson London-to-
Melbourne Air Race. The DH88
broke new ground in wooden
aircraft construction, ultimately
leading to the DH 98 Mosquito.
Like so many British aircraft
constructors, the De Havilland
Aircraft Company was swallowed
up as part of 1960s governmental
pressure to ‘merge or die’, that
created larger though far less
memorable entities,
Hawker
Siddeley Aviation
and , and now
just British Aerospace.
It’s a process, which has, latterly,
overtaken even the U.S. aircraft
industry. There can be little doubt
however that it will be the historic
‘names’ that will prevail in memory
50 years on from now.
De H, or de H?
- I’ve seen it used
both ways from authoritative
sources... which should it be? Can
anyone offer a definitive answer.
The young Geoffrey De Avialland
at about the time of his historic
first flight.
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Doolittle Media.
The paper used on this title is from
sustainable forestry
CAN’T GET THE WOOD Y’KNOW!
No, not that memorable line from
the ‘Highly esteemed Goon Show’
(C’mon, some of you out there
must surely remember it?), but it seems that the staple material of
our aeromodelling hobby may soon be either in short supply or
substantially more pricey.
Story is that the Chinese are cornering the market for their wind
turbine industry ... golly, what an ambitious size of propeller!
If it’s true, then blame it all on the Chinese, after all, White House
Wally does it all the time.
Man-and-machine!
G. d H. in his second, successfull
‘flying machine’, as non-avaition
public used to call them back
then.
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