Let’s take a quick look at what’s inside the August issue of RCM&E.
Rob Bennett starts things off with a build and flying report of Seagull’s impressively large Shock Cub bush plane, with its dangly wheels and broad flap and slat equipped wings. In Retro Ramblings, Shaun Garrity looks forward to this year’s Single Channel & Retro R/C Fly-in at Pontefract Park. Next, John Sweatman buys some CAD software and uses it to design his own DIY thermal soarer, before John Stennard assembles and flies the very lightweight Hacker Aerix F3P aerobat. Jeff Barringer draws the first half of the magazine to a close with an article about using a resin moulding kit to cast small parts for a multitude of scale models.
Our Pro-Plan this month is for the fuselage of a 1:4.5 scale Sperber Junior glider designed by classic glider guru, Chris Williams. Plans for the wings will follow in the September issue.
Our roving show reporter Mike Freeman begins his 2026 event reports from the flight line at the Popham Model Show before we return to Chris Williams for his Scale Gliding column in which Chris builds another 1:4.5 scale soarer, the Skylark 3, and shows how to use filler to seal large gaps in scale airframes. After dropping a few hints in recent Insider columns, John Stennard finally gets to tell us all about his attempts at drone soccer. The editor wraps things up in his latest RTFM feature by unboxing an EPO Goshawk, which is nothing too unusual until you realise that this foamy is destined to be powered by a gas turbine jet engine…
