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New Hangar 9 Pulse 125
The new Pulse 125 means that no less than 5 sizes of Pulse will be available! Any Pulse owner you meet will sing the praises of Mike McConville’s modern classic. No less than four versions of the design are now available across Horizon Hobby brands and they’ll be joined by this new ‘big daddy’ of…
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Fly-Fly BAe Hawk – Pt.2
Ok, well in Part.1 you saw how she flew and fly well she does, but getting to that stage wasn’t quite the picnic I had hoped for. Being a slow and methodical builder, I put the kettle on, got out the sticky buns, and turned firstly to the build manual. This is the now all too…
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Fly-Fly BAe Hawk – Pt.1
Like many other aspiring jet jockeys I suspect….. I have a soft spot for the BAe Hawk. As with that classic piston and propeller powered beauty – the Spitfire, it is an aeroplane that most people recognize without difficulty. Given that it is the current jet of choice for the world famous Red Arrows…
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New Parkzone P-51 Gunslinger
While outwardly the same, this new park-fly P-51 from Parkzone has been completely re-engineered in comparison to the outgoing version. Was it really way back in 2005 when Parkzone first introduced their ready-to-fly P-51 park-fly fighter? Things have moved on in electric flight since then so it’s no suprise to see this new version. Out…
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Enigma
The Enigma is designed with the competition or sport fun flyer in mind (Ben Dean photo). Enigma is a sweet little 46.5″ span performance bipe designed for electric or glow power. It is soon to be produced by Gavin Barden at Evolution Models – a British firm specialising in compeition and sport fun fly machines and accessories. A…
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Walkera HM5G6
Unexciting name aside, there’s no denying that this little variable pitch, twin-rotor, ready-to-fly machine is small, impressively so. It packs a lot into its tiny shell four-channels, two sub-micro servos, an integrated gyro/receiver/ESC unit, 2.4GHz control and power from a diminutive single Li-Po cell. Everything’s bolted to a plastic frame along with a wire landing…
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Oxalys – Part One
As will have been witnessed by those who saw him fly at Sandown, Christophe Paysant-Le Roux is an incredibly gifted display pilot (not to mention world-class competition flyer). The mere mention of his name will guarantee a packed grandstand of spectators eagerly awaiting yet another stunning display, often combining both precision aerobatics and freestyle 3D.…
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F4U Corsair
Now, if you ask me, the artwork on the Corsairs box really doesn’t do the model justice. Granted, it looks okay, but you’ve really got to take a look at it in the flesh. Lifting the spray painted, panel-bedecked fuselage from within, quite literally put a smile on my face. For a small-ish (39″ span)…
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E-flite Pitts S-12
Build quailty is very good and helpfully, the potentially tricky strut work has been taken care of. The Pitts series of aerobatic biplanes has long been an aeromodelling favourite. Although the classic Pitts Special first flew in 1945, the Model 12 was the last variant to be designed and developed by Curtis Pitts himself and…
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New ParkZone Sukhoi SU-26
Parkzone’s new bind’n’fly indoor aerobat should be giving Kyosho’s Miniums a good run for their money. Boasting that indoor ready-to-fly, four-channel, 3D flying is now a reality, this 14.25″ span model weighs just 1.1oz. It’s supplied with a charger and single-cell 130mAh Li-Po battery so users must find their own DSM2 based transmitter. The Spektrum…
