Flying Scale Models Issue 137 – April 2011

Issue 137

SUPER SPAD
Dennis Richardson’s latest masterpiece is a SPAD XIII,
from the Balsa USA kit

HEINKELl He51
A 68” (1727mm) wingspan model for .70 -.90 cu.in.
engines and four function R/C systems

HEINKEL He51 Type History & Scale Drawings
The Luftwaffe’s first fighter - outmoded from the outset, but a valuable tool for Germany’s newly emergent air arm

RACER REVIVAL?
Part 2: 1946 - 1949
‘Fearless Leader’ of the Dawn Patrol display team Dave Tappin enlarges on the proposal for a new show display category

FULL-SIZE FREE PLAN
Alexandr Yakolev’s AIR-1
A simple, but attractive, scale model of a little known
Russian prototype. Designed by Peter Rake, with the
prototype model built and described by Pat Lynch

SUBJECTS FOR SCALE - GRUMMAN WILDCAT
A portly little toughie that served long and well
during WW2

GRUMMAN WILDCAT SCALE DRAWING
1:50 fine-line three views

GRUMMAN WILDCAT FLYING COLOURS
Warpaint schemes

GRUMMAN WILDCAT IN DETAIL
Close-up study of the FM-2

THE QUIET ZONE
‘Blow-ups make perfect’... or the QZ version of ‘bigger
flies better’. Well, it certainly produced an excellent model in this case!

TECHNO SCALE
Mike Evatt scans the web for more TechnoScale Topics