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Here’s the two-stroke degree wheel from Alex Whittaker’s Engine Lab series that start’s this month in RCM&E (Aug 2008 issue) You can download this ‘actual size’ disk by right-clicking on the item and then select your download location by choosing ‘save target as’. As Alex suggests, the wheel can be printed out (on paper or…

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We’ve received a letter from Dave Walters regarding the use of super glues/cyanoacrylates and a possible link to cyanide poisoning? Dave’s letter is below and we’d like to hear what you have to say on the subject and whether you’ve experienced similar difficulties. I was modifying my plan-built Lazy Bee to add ailerons, and decided…

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Welcome back, it’s 1965 already so let’s look at another aeromodelling year through the eyes of RCM&E archive issues. Looking back at 1964, the magazine noted the menace of walkie talkie radios and the growth of proportional control although admitted that we were a few jumps behind the U.S. The big news going into 1965…

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In the next issue of RCM&E we’ll have a review of the new Seagull Sparrow Hawk. This ARTF version of the classic mid-30’s racer is an unusual, yet very welcome arrival on the ARTF market. We’ve just received some pictures from J.Perkins (UK distributor) showing the model being raced by the Seagull design team in…

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Welcome back. We’re up to 1964 on our little retrospective jaunt through the years as seen through the eyes of RCM&E archive issues. By now the magazine had stepped up a size and the editor was W.P.Holland. The model featured above on the March cover was Punpkin Seed a 20″ span single channel design by…

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A new Guinness World Record was set earlier this month at the Southeastern Electric Flight Festival, near Altlanta Georgia, U.S.A. for the total number of R/C model aircraft flown at the same time within a period of one minute. Ric Vaughn was event co-coordinator for the attempt which exceeded the standing record of 49 models…

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Here we are then in 1963, the year of JFK, the first woman in space, the great train robbery, and the premiere of 007’s From Russia with Love adventure in UK cinemas. Model flying continued to develop and RCM&E had an article in the January issue accompaniedby a February cover shot of David Walker with…

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Here we are again with another quick retrospective stroll through the RCM&E archives as we have at look at modelflying in 1962 as reported in the magazine. The front cover went through a redesign part-way through the year shifting to the style seen above. Our present day designers rate this style very highly yet the…

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A happy Spencer Lisenby recovers Kinetic, his own-design glider after setting the new world Dynamic Soaring speed record at 357mph (John Buxton photo) On April 30th 2008 American Spencer Lisenby Dynamic Soared his own-design 100″ span Kinetic glider to a new world record speed of 357mph. Spencer was flying at Weldon hill, Lake Isabella, California…

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I met Dave Chinery at the Bickley electric meeting yesterday. Some may recall that Dave wrote a regular electric flight column for RCM&E a few years ago and he’s still busy as can be seen by just a glance at his latest creation – this 123″ span version of the Fairey Long Range Monoplane. Two…

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