Peter Miller

Actually I saw an almost similar thing happen in real life at RAF Wattisham. We had a visit from the top brass of the Venezuelan air force on the station. They were all standing on the balcony round the control tower. A pilot by the name of "Bugs" Bundell was demonstrating a Lighting. He made his final run between our hangar and the tower below the level of the hangar roof. We heard the most almighty BANG as he went past at what must have been almost Mach 1. All the glass came out of the top watch tower on top of the control tower,showering the VIPS. The windscreen of the fire truck standing there shattered and the roof of our line hut (a prefab house) rose up, the wall came in by a foot and the roof came back down and all the light fittings fell down. Bugs circle round and landed and a Land Rover was waiting to take him to the tower where the station commander was waiting at the door. I am told that Bugs Bundell was actually leaving the station the next day anyway. Well he truly left with a bang!

Now they just use vapes!!!

Yes, she might have got the hump if you gave her those

Hi Tom Yes, they were designed to be ultra light and incredibly aerobatic. You NEVER flew on anything like full power except in the manoeuvres. For example, Take off, roll, loop, roll,loop, roll, loop and land and if you took more than about 20 seconds you were not in the points!!!!! I bought three kits of less than top models. A club member flew mine and failed to throttle back....the tail just blew up. He bought one of my kits and did exactly the same thing....He has never lived that down. I was sent a kit for review. My party piece was to roll that as soon as there was room for the wing to clear the ground.

Th enlarged Aerobic with electric power worked perfectly with the battery set up as described. It would make life easier and building quicker to have extra copies printed of the wing plan. but as Paul has already built 3 he knows exactly what he is doing with the model and he is going i.c which is great with them

Can he down load that at full size? I do not have enough electrical experience to comment really but the battery could be mounted on one side of the flat fuselage with the ESC on the other side. I did that with my enlarged Aerobic. Not sure what size of motor but George at 4-Max would give the right answer answer

I will be going in to town on Monday

Hi Paul FOUND THEM. With some 40 years of stuff in my "filing system" it can take a while. PM me you email address and I will get the PDFs as soon as I go into town which will be very soon, and send them to you.

Sorry, That was RCM&E on Ebay so the month November will be correct for Radio Modeller

I will see if I still have the magazine plans and if I have I will get them done as PDFs. Not sure which issue of Radio Modeller they were in. My own list says November 1991 but the issue in Ebay does not mention them

I am reminded of a story that my father told. He was standing with another officer watching recruits drilling on the parade ground. The other officer turned to my father and said "I hate the human race! I hate its stupid face!" It has stuck in my memory for about 80 years

PM me and I can let you have a copy of the plan....my original!!

To perform the Rudder/Elevator roll you dive to pick up a little excess speed pull the nose up, hit full rudder and then as she rolls over towards inverted feed inDOWN elevator and take it off as the roll is completed

One of my favourite "Classics" isDick Shumacher's "Little Ship" . 44" span, published in MAN December 1949 so true vintage. tor ro I have built 4 of them plus a 1 1/2 times version called "The Big ship" (available from Sarik) A club member uit this and has been flying it for several years. It is amazing as it is very aerobatic on three channels and does superb aileron/elevator rolls. My latest is a brushless conversion (With our editor now)

Think...If I was in that situation I would only be 21!!!!!!and a bit

Mine is tomorrow. My parents were never that tight fisted!!!

I see people bellyaches about a pretty small increase on the BMFA membership fee. This covers a very valuable insurance scheme. I would love to hear their screams of total agony at the increase in their car insurance. Perhaps those who say that they will give up model flying will also give up driving??!!

A little story related to CGs. At one stage In the RAF I was on second line servicing of Vickers Varsities (Also known as "the Pig") and we ha one in the hangar up on jacks. About three of us were standing at the nose when the engine men removed a propeller. All of a sudden the nose started rising up. It is had gone too far it would have come off the main jacks which would have caused a lot of damage. We reacted fast and threw ourselves onto the nose wheel. How we all managed to cling on I don't know but it was enough to stop that aircraft coming off the jacks. Someone had forgotten to put the tail trestle into place!!! You never forget incidents like that!!!

Once the battery fell out of my Moon Dancer. (The hatch was underneath) Amazingly the model flew on and made a perfect landing out of sight several hundred yards away.

You were lucky. A club member put on a pair of gardening gloves a couple of weeks ago. Agonising pain in his finger.A spider had bitten him. he had two puncture marks in his finger. Took a day for the pain to subside/

Unheard of in the RAF in the 50s and 60s