Kits

E-Scales Pilatus PC-21, first shown at Nuremburg is now finally here. It's a 36" (911mm) span machine, moulded using EPO foam and complete with retracts, seven servos and a power system that includes an impressive 5-blade prop. A 1650 mAh Li-Po is in the box too. It's an unusual machine at first glance where all…

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This review was first published in 2010, the model is still available. When RCM&E’s publisher roped me in to help out with articles for the 50th Anniversary Special (2010), I suggested it would be a good idea to feature a couple of kits. The first covering one of the ‘retro’ kits that are making a…

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  Two new models from Seagull have just gone on sale in the UK and they're the first gliders (granted one is a motor glider) from a manufacturer that, until now, has remained firmly in the i.c. and electric club/sport power market. The company has gathered a solid repuration in recent years based on models that…

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    Hot on the heels of the recently released (or rather, re-released) F-27Q Stryker that we review in the new Sept 2011 issue of RCM&E, Parkzone haven't been idle with this, the new baby member of the family, due out this month. It's an Ultra Micro (UM) release spanning 17" (430mm) and supplied as…

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    Although it's impossible to highlight every new model or product that arrives in the marketplace we do try to feature a few of the items that catch our eye and the new 1.4m span Zero from FNS is one such. The models joins the existing subjects in the popular 1.4m (55") span range…

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  Pre-war trainer, latterly a sport aviation classic and conveyor of brave wing walkers. Despite these claims to fame, the PT-17 has always burned itself in my consciousness as star of one of the most exciting and dangerous flying sequences ever committed to celluloid. You might recall the chase from the film Capricorn One where…

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    There are numerous warbirds that capture our imagination, and the Mustang is right up there with frontrunners like the Spitfire and Hurricane. The P-51D was the most common version of the Mustang in service; with a powerful Rolls Royce Merlin engine it shone in the Pacific theatre and became a familiar sight and…

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  A new release from Seagull, this 65" (1650mm) span model has been designed for .91-100 two-stroke or 100-1.20 four-stroke engines or electric equivalent. As is the norm with the company's latest releases, an electric conversion kit is included. The model is Oracover finished and should weigh in at around the 10lb mark and under-wing…

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What do you mean, you’ve never heard of the Stinson Reliant? Go and look it up for goodness sake – the Reliant is a classily styled drop of aeroplane from aviation’s golden era. A large, strong, easy-to-fly machine, it served as just about anything you’d care to name – airliner, military utility, ambulance, airmail pick-up,…

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In some ways I’ve wondered why E-flite's new ultra micro release has arrived at the tail end of the indoor flying season. The 17” span (432mm) machine looks to sit firmly in the ‘indoor’ category at first glance although closer inspection and flying experience points to a model, like their UMX Pitts, that’s really more…

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