Flying Scale Models Issue 167 – October 2013

October 2013  No.167

6 CONTACT
Just for openers
10 Delectable DEWOITINE
Brian Meredith Evans’ pretty and very sprightly scratch-built Dewoitine D-501 French fighter
FULLSIZE FREE PLAN feature
16 airco DH6 PART 1
Part 1: A 48” span 1/9th scale electric powered model designed by Peter Rake, with the prototype model built by Bjorn Terje
Hansebråten
24 AIRCO DH6 IC POWER
Not into electrics? Want a bigger DH6? Then try Don Luck’s 1:6.6 scale model with a wingspan of 64” (1626mm), for .45 to .61 engines
28 airco DH6 TYPE HISTORY
At a time when Royal Flying Corps pilot training was not particulary regularised, Geoffrey de Havilland created this purpose-designed trainer aircraft
32 THE QUIET ZONE
Peter Rake presents his pint-size Sperry Monoplane, with full size, pull-out centrespread plans. (Part 1).
38 subjects for scale - DART PUP
Based on 1930s glider technology, this one-off type is a shape worth modelling.Would anyone like to give it a try?
44 A BRACE OF PUPS
It’s been done before! Back in 1956, AeroModeller published plans for the Dart Pup in 18th and 1/6th scales for free flight
46 HANSA-BRANDENBURG C.1
A 35” (889mm) 1:15 scale model of the WW1 German reconnaissance aircraft, for 0.75 - 0.8cc engines, designed for free flight by Bill Dennis
50 BRANDENBURG TYPE HISTORY
Unglamourous in outline and shape, it was reliable and effective 52 BRANDENBURG SCALE DRAWING
1:50 detailed scale three-views
54 COSFORD 2013
This year LMA’s biggest meeting welcomed ace warbirders from Germany!
60 SURVIVING Free flight SCALE
Part 5: The fiddly bits: It’s built and covered! But how do you make those items that make a scale model look right? Andre
Hewitt explains
64 TECHNO SCALE
Scale orientated web sites to browse