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BERNARD 74
PART 2: LITTLE KNOWN
FRENCH 1930S FIGHTER
SCALE TECHNIQUE
BOOM…
GOTCHA!
SPIN(NER) DOCTOR
MAKE A LARGE SPINNER TO
TRUE-SCALE SHAPE
A CUT ABOVE
CUSTOM DECALS FOR
SCALE MODELS
C.A.C. BOOMERANG
AUSTRALIA’S FIRST FIGHTER
CONSTRUCTION FEATURE
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SCALE DRAWINGS
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COLOUR SCHEMES
SWINGING THE LEG
GET RETRACTING UNDERCARRIAGE
GEOMETRY RIGHT
SCALE
MASTERCLASS
ELECTRIC DUCTED FAN JETS
January 2021
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SPAD S.XIII PART 2
CONSTRUCTION
COMPLETED
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COLOUR SCHEMES
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SCALE THREE VIEWS
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Formation...
THE ISSUE AHEAD...
ON THE COVER
What do you do if there’s a
likelihood, in a middle of a war, that
anticipated supplies of fighter aircraft
aircraft might not be available. Well, if
you’re Australian, you quickly, very
quickly, create your own. Result, the
Commonwhealth Aircraft Co. CA-12
Boomeranger, our
Subject for Scale
in this issue.
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CONTACT
Just for starters
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SPORT SCALE MASTERCLASS PART 18
For those with ‘ambition’, Gordon Whitehead deals with ducted fan
scale model jets, with emphasis on electric power
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BERNARD 74
PART 2: Dr. Mike Hawkins FRAeS completes his two-part feature
of a little-known fighter type of the 1930s French aircraft industry
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BERNARD 74 SCALE DRAWING
1:50 scale general arrange,ment three-view
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SPINN(ER) DOCTOR
Dr. Mike Hawkins F.R.Ae.S offers his technique for one-off non-
commercial scale spinners
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subject for scale
C.A.C. Boomerang
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By no means the fastest in the WW2 era fighter pack, it was,
for Australia, the right aeroplane, at the right time, and highly
effective
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BOOMERANG SCALE DRAWING
1:50 detailed three-view of CA-12, CA-13 & CA-14..
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WARPAINT FOR THE BOOMERANG
Flying colours for Australia’s first fighter 1942-1945
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GERHARD REINSCH
Master Scale Modeller 1956-2020
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a cut above
John Rutter used the Craft Robo vinyl-cutting machine to make
custom decals for scale models
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SPAD S.XIII
PART 2: Concluding the construction and flying of this 54" span,
1/6th scale model for electric power. Designed by Peter Rake, with
the prototype model built and test flown by Charlie Bice
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SPAD S.XIII SCALE DRAWING
1:30 scale detailed three-views
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SPAD S.XIII FLYING COLOURS
Warpaint carried by French, British, American and other airm arms
that took this fighter into combat
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SWINGING THE LEG
A matter of angles! John Carpenter explains the geometry of
rake-forward/rake-back retracting undercarriages
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W
hat, would you say, is the benchmark of a successful
fighter aircraft? The ‘score’, the number of enemy
aircraft ‘downed’, is the criterion that might most readily
come to mind.
But what would the reaction be to fighter that served, front line, for
the final three years of WW2, but which never destroyed an enemy
aircraft in air-to-air combat, that engaged air-to-air in only one
recorded incident and fired only a one-and-a-half second burst
before the enemy bomber did the oft-used escape tactic of
dobbing into cloud cover.
A successsful aircraft? Well, in the case of the Commonwealth
Aircraft Company
Boomerang
yes, and very much so!
Faced in late 1941, physically, by Japanese forces within striking
distance of their northern shores, and by the likelihood that the
supply of combat equipment of all types from either Britain or USA
might dry up, the Australian Government set about creating and
manfacturing their own home-grown fighter aircraft - quite a test
when no local aircraft industry existed there before the late 1930s,
and with no previous experience of designing and building fighter
aircraft types.
Thus came the C.A.C. Boomerang, designed and first flown just five
month after inception. It was never the fastest fighter in the pack,
but is was rugged, easy to fly, had excellent manoeuvrability and
firepower as good as any ‘norm’ of the time. Eclipsed when other
fighter types trickled in later, the Boomerang served, frontline, for the
remainder of WW2 in vital tasks of ground attack, photo
reconnaissance and ‘keeping the enemby heads down’ until the
cessation of hostilities in August 1945.
From then, the Boomerang quickly faded away, but a few have
survived and restored as part of aviation’s living history ... and there is
even a highly authentic airworthy replica.
Portly and cuddly in appearance, the C.A.C Boomerang is a
worthy
Subject for Scale,
as this month’s story tells, with all the
supporting back-up of scale drawings and colour schemes. It’s
unusual enough to be a good taking point and club fields and scale
events ... whenever we are let out again!
BAT (TING) ABOVE AVERAGE!
At the time when we were working up the October issue of FSM,
Victoria State in Australia was in Covid lockdown, so Ron Mitchell
was unable to offer much in the way of airborne photos of his
McDonnell XP-67 Moonbat that we featured.
Now ‘relased’, Rob has been able to fly his unusual creation again
as the photos here show
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