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aero-model pictures - your own, or others you've seen at the club or at
a show; they are all welcome if they're nice to look at!
If you're not into digital photography or
scanning pictures, why not send me some photos by regular mail? It's not too
pricey; a batch of five or
six photos costs $1.00 airmail postage from the USA, for example. My home address is on the home
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All pictures on
this page are thumbnails - click on the picture for an enlarged view |
| Take a look at a few models
from members of Heswall Model Aero Club . . . |
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This model of a B25 Mitchell was
originally built by club member Denis Hughes, who later disposed
of it, when it became a feature suspended from the roof of a restaurant
until it crash-landed to the floor! A few years later, Mark McKee, who
was at that time a newly-joined member, turned up at the club with it in
beautifully renovated condition! Denis was astounded to see his old
model back on the field! |
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This Puppeteer is built
by Andy Thompson from 'alternative
materials' - i.e., mainly cardboard! Cardboard carton board was used for the forward fuselage and wings and
the fuselage sheeting was from file separator cards. Ply was used for
the engine bulkheads, balsa strip for the wing spars and leading
and trailing edges, and balsa for the rear fuselage and tail feathers.
'Baby buggy' wheels from the local hardware shop completed the
undercarriage. The model was flown on an MDS ·60 2-stroke engine. |
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Andy Tabor's Twinstar from Pico. Powered by
two 400 size motors, Andy gets about 7 minutes flight time using 2000
mAh 'sub-C' cells |
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Another
of Andy Tabor's models - the most unusual Double built
from the Mantua kit.
The under-carriage can be inverted, so that the
hollow, double-skinned, wheel spats become outrigger floats for
off-water operation. Due to a change of flying site, Andy was never able
to fly this model and sold it, but he says the new owner flew it
successfully with a ·40 size engine.
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on the club scene page! |
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JOHN DUXBURY has
recently finished his Wot 4 and has sent a picture of the very nicely
finished model.
It is a Wot 4 Mk3
built from the Deluxe kit with glass cowl & undercart. John has
installed an Irvine 53 Mk3 with a JR PCM receiver and a mixture of JR
& Hitec servos for guidance. The whole airframe is covered in yellow
Solarfilm and he used Balsaloc and Prymol to improve adhesion. The cowl
is brush painted, using Solarlac to match the film.
Of particular interest on
this model is the use of isolating fixings to mount the engine.
John wanted to produce an
engine and airframe which was as quiet as possible so he isolated the
engine mount from the airframe by using Davis Iso-mounts which are
available from Just Engines in Reading.
These mounts look like a
rubber Rawlplug with a brass insert; they allow you to use a standard
plastic engine mount and totally isolate it from the rest of the
airframe. At this moment in time the plane hasn't flown, but John has
been running the engine up on the ground and says it seems very quiet.
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| A
beautiful sunny afternoon on 17th February brought several recent new recruits
to my club flying field (Test Valley Model Flying Club), together with some nice-looking models. |
COLIN GRACE'S Uno-Wot, with
Irvine ·40 |
LUCAS MARSHALL'S Micro-Maid.
with MDS ·40 |
TONY SAUNDER'S hybrid Aerobat/Fun
40, OS ·40 LA |
JIM BARNETT'S Puppeteer running
in the RCV60-SP |
| Here are
some of MICHAEL HENRIKSEN'S electric models |
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Garden Cub, 40" wingspan, Speed
300 motor geared 3:1 on 6 x 600 AA cells. |
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Hellcat, small and tubby. Built from
ordinary white insulation foam and covered in brown paper. Hand-painted
with Humbrol enamels. 34" wingspan, Speed 400 6V motor. |
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Pipistrelle 400, aerobatic model
adapted from a free plan in Radiomodeller (R.I.P.). 40"
wingspan, Speed 400 6v motor, 8 x 500 Ar Sanyo cells |
| There's
more about Michael on the personal
profile and site seeing pages. |
| GEOFF GRAHAM
has been creative again . . . |
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pics were taken yesterday (February 18th) at our flying site. Built the
Jnr 60 since the DH71. I did tell you that I was a build junky didn't I?
Fitted with an SC .30 FS, it flies beautifully and once at altitude
literally needs no more than tick-over to stooge around level.
Did decals in precisely
the same way as those for the DH71. [Geoff's system was featured on ModelFlight
#28]. Designed fuselage waves in Corel Draw 7.0, printed
templates, cut out film (this time Profilm) and then ironed on fuz.
Wings were easy of course. Just printed various size circles and used
them as templates again. Cheers one up on a cold, wintry flying day,
doesn't it?
Brilliant, Geoff -
dazzling, even! |
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Send us a picture of your aero model
Large or small, kit, scratch built or ARTF, rotary or fixed-wing,
it matters not - and they
don't have to be perfect, either. If you like it, let's see it!
Just use the e-mail facility at the foot of any ModelFlight
page or send
details and pictures by regular mail.
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