Kits
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Tipsy Junior
The Tipsy Junior plan can be purchased via the RCM&E plans service at MyHobbyStore.com. The Tipsy Junior was designed by one of Belgium’s leading aviation pioneers, Ernest Tips, who was both the managing director of Avions Fairey – the Belgian subsidiary of the British marque – and the man behind the famous Tipsy Nipper. The…
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F-4 Phantom
This review was published in RCM&E, June 2005. The model and others in VMAR's sport jet range can still sometimes be found. I think we’d probably all agree that over recent years one of the fastest growing elements of this fine hobby of ours is the ARTF market. Eager manufacturers from the Far East, seemingly…
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Something a little different….
Due for release in May, this new EDF, vectored thrust, Mig-29 3D from SebArt represents something of a departure. The company should need little introduction of course, having built up an enviable reputation over the last 5 years for balsa/ply aerobatic models of the highest quality and with superb flying characteristics. This foam jet, amply…
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Super Air
This review was originally published in 2005. The model is still available. It’s a fact that, given a pit full of aeromodellers, the conversation will eventually come around to the financial cost of this wonderful hobby. With the Far East dominating the ARTF market and computer radio sets becoming plentiful, R/C aeromodelling can be pursued…
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Super Sports 40
This review was first published in 2005. The kit is still available. Traditionally, the model that we fly after our first high-wing trainer is the one on which we cut our aerobatic teeth. A good ‘follow on’ low-wing trainer encourages us to repeatedly push our aerobatic skills, leaving the comfort zone of the high-winger far…
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Seagull Harrier
This review/s were first published Sept 2005. The .90-size Harrier is still available. 3D – It’s everywhere! 3D this, 3D that, a shock flyer epidemic, heli’ fliers trying to implode their expensive machines, dethermalising tails on slope soarers, reverse pitch props on indoor electric models – what next? Free flight duration prop’ hanging? I’ve dabbled…
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Hawker Hurricane
This review was first published in RCM&E May 2005. The kit is still available (see Datafile). Making R/C model aircraft airframes from hot-wire cut blue foam, that’s subsequently covered with PVA-adhered brown paper is a construction method that’s been around for years. Mainly Models of Hertfordshire have now embraced this cheap ‘n’ cheerful airframe…
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World Models P-51D Mustang
This review was first published in RCM&E November 2005 and the kit is still available (see link below). I like Mustangs. In fact I’ve owned three such ARTFs over the last few years, two of which I’ve managed to ‘total’ in dodgy circumstances. I therefore came to this particular review with both excitement and…
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Thunder Tiger Cessna 177
The ASP .65 four-stroke has provided ample power This review was first published in 2004. At the time the kit was produced by ARC before Thunder Tiger purchased the company. Accordingly it has since been re-issued and is now sold under the Thunder Tiger brand. As a self-confessed and contented model helicopter flyer I…
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E-flite Sukhoi SU-26m 480
At the height of their success in the World Aerobatics Championships, the Russian Sukhoi company launched the SU-26m as a refinement to the already successful SU-26. Sporting a growling radial engine and mid-wing design, the full size SU-26m stood out among its peers as a fast aerobat with a spectacular roll rate, high pitch manoeuvrability…
