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ON THE COVER Sight, sounds and emotion. Some models stop you in your tracks and Dr Keith Mitchell's 21ft span Super Constellation is one such. Alex Whittaker caught it at the LMA's Elvington show last year so just turn to page 14 for all the highlights. FREE PRO-PLANS MIGNON Chris Reid's Foss-style sportster delivers minimal…

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ON THE COVER They've had the ARTF treatment before, notably by Great Planes and Hangar 9 themselves, and the RV series of home- built aircraft always seem to suit the model format. Hangar 9 have returned to the Vans stable and selected the RV-4 as the basis for an attractive, large-scale release that's reviewed this…

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ON THE COVER… Tony Nijhuis described his Harrier experiments in a series of articles earlier this year and, this month, returns to complete the story and describe how the VTOL challenge was finally solved.  FREE PRO-PLANS CANBERRA Andy Blackburn's facsimile of the classic twin jet is a great introduction to power scale soaring and will turn heads…

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ON THE COVER Electric ducted fan jets have come a long way since the days when brushed motors lasted only a few flights and, whether you like the scheme or not, there's no denying that FMS’ Super Scorpion represents the cutting edge of applied ready-to-fly know-how. Turn to page 20 this month and we'll tell…

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ON THE COVER Tony Nijhuis has revisited his 2015 design for a 42" Hawk and scaled it up by 18%; squeezing in HobbyKing's 12-bladed 90mm EDF has delivered a power increase that more than offsets the weight penalty of a 50in-span FREE PRO-PLAN BAe Hawk Tony Nijhuis’ 50in EDF Hawk is nearly a fifth bigger than…

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ON THE COVER Scale models don’t come crisper than this 124” span, 1/5-scale, Lysander III built by Chris Peers and the elusive Spartacus. Alex Whittaker tracked down both the men and their model and you can see what all the fuss is about starting on page 110 FREE PRO-PLANS DESTINY Peter Miller brings his Angel…

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ON THE COVER Andrew Hilton's Eindecker is proof of what can be achieved with a good kit as the starting point. Taking three years to complete, his Balsa USA Eindekker 90 is one such example and you can see more starting on page 110. FREE PRO-PLANS GO JET Shaun Garrity revisits a classic, easy-build sport…

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ON THE COVER It’s interesting that, at a time when the RAF trained new recruits on the Tiger Moth, the USAF used a machine that weighed nearly twice as much. The PT-17’s muscular appearance still appeals and Seagull’s new ARTF Super Stearman is no exception. Turn to page 110 for our review.   FREE PRO-PLAN…

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ON THE COVER VTOL – vertical take-off and landing – has been one of those model flying holy grails with plenty of near misses over the years. Perhaps it was always going to take a good brand like E-flite, to crack it, but crack it they really have and you can read all about their…

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ON THE COVER That's a dummy engine would you believe! Markus Gunther's Zero is an astounding piece of work, no surprise that it did so well at last years F4 World Championships in Romania. Dave Roberts was there and chatted to Markus about a model that took a cool 15 years to bring to fruition.…

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