Flying Scale Models Issue 180 – Nov 2014

Nov 2014  No.180

4 CONTACT
News and new products
FULL-SIZE FREE PLAN FEATURE
8 POLIKARPOV Po-2
A 1/10 scale 45” (1140mm) wingspan, electric powered model designed by Peter Rake, with the prototype model built and described by Pat Lynch
14 PO-2 SCALE DRAWING
1:40 scale super-detailed three-views
16 PO-2 TYPE HISTORY
There may have been as many as 40,000 examples of this Russian Soviet-era maid-of-all work built.
20 ROLLS ROYCE scale meet 2014
Alex Whittaker attends the annual scale meeting, held at Rolls Royce, Hucknall
26 TECHNO SCALE
On-line scale information sources
28 MASTER MODELS
GRUMMAN TBF AVENGER
Alex Whittaker Nigel I’Anson’s superb example - a ‘regular’ around the summer show circuit - no hangar queen here.
34 AVENGER SCALE DRAWING
1:70 scale three-views
36 AVENGER TYPE HISTORY
This, the largest, heaviest single engine front-line combat type of WW2, may be something of an ugly duckling, but it was highless effective for a range of tasks
41 AVENGER FLYING COLOURS
Warpaint schemes for the Grumman TBF
44 SCALE SOARING
Into the lift, with the scale sailplane scene
48 CORBEN SUPER ACE
A 1/6th 50” (1270mm) scale model of an early 1930s American home-build aircraft for .26 to .30 cu. in. four-stroke or
.20 to .25 two-stroke engines, designed by Peter Miller
54 CORBEN SUPER ACE SCALE DRAWING
1:40 scale three-views
56 WORLD SCALE CHAMPS 2014
John Carpenter reports from Marmande, France
62 QUIET ZONE
More on detailing early aviation types by Jonathan Rider