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February 2011 NN Society News

The National Aerospace Library Aero Modeller

ollowing the detailed report on how The Foyle Foundation the contents of Aero Modeller from 1946-1971 is available Fgrant of £50,000 was used in conserving historic via the following websites: aviation material in the extensive holdings of The National www.aeroflight.co.uk/mags/uk/aeromodeller50.htm and Aerospace Library (see The Aerospace Professional, July www.aeroflight.co.uk/mags/uk/aeromodeller60.htm 2010, pp 10-11) — a major part of which was used to bind many 1,000s of post 1940 aviation magazines and issues For any enquiries regarding this material, please contact (totalling 2,111 journal volumes bound in under two years) — the librarians at Farnborough. T +44 (0)1252 the librarians at Farnborough were contacted by Dr John C 701038/701060; E [email protected]. Gibbings, CEng, FRAeS, who subsequently donated all his early issues of early Aero Modeller from 1935 onwards Those issues which duplicated the Library’s existing which the Library did not already hold. These magazines holdings have been passed on to the Society of Antique have now been bound and Dr Gibbings’ donation means that Modellers. the Library now holds a near complete set of the magazine from Vol No1 November 1935 through to its last separate issue published in February 2001. For decades the premier magazine for building and flying model aircraft (incorporating over time Model Aeroplane Constructor and Model Aircraft), the covers of these early issues reflect a seemingly less time-pressed era when hours could be devoted to this pastime and probably many of its readers subsequently later worked in the aircraft industry. A notable feature of the magazine was its regular Aviation painting publishing of detailed scale arrangement plans from which aircraft models could be then constructed. On behalf of the librarians at Farnborough, Mike Stanberry, MRAeS, has donation compiled a detailed listing of the 405 separate folded model plans which were circulated with Aeromodeller from 1958- recent addition to the 2001; these range from plans for Deperdussin Racing ARoyal Aeronautical Monocoque 1913, Handley Page E/Type 39 Gugnunc, Society’s collection of /Camel//1½ Strutter/Swallow, Vickers aviation paintings on display Gun Bus, Messerschmitt Bf109/Me163 ‘Komet’/Me262, at its headquarters at No.4 Boeing B-47, Lockheed P-38 Lightning, Hamilton Place is a striking, Mosquito/TK4/DH83 Humming Bird, Miles Messenger/M-14 large oil printing (5ft x 3ft) of Magister/M20 etc. through to the British Aerospace EAP a 125 Programme together with numerous Series 400B, G-AYOK. The homebuilt designs such as ‘MollyHawk’ (a rubber-powered painting, by Edmund Miller, 660mm span semi-scale ) and ‘Poppet’ (a 31¾ inch GAvA, was presented to the Society by Raytheon UK in May span free flight sports power model). An indicative listing of having been transported from its Glenrothes site.

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The National Aerospace Library Lanchester Models

Dr F W Lanchester with one of his flying models. RAeS (NAL) photo. One of the restored models on display at the National Aerospace Library. Christine Woodward photo.

wo original 1894 flying models key early work in the development of described above has been fitted to The NAL holds numerous Tconstructed by Dr Frederick William aeronautics — describing how he the rubber-driven model with the books/papers by and about Lanchester, FRS, HonFRAeS, (1868- projected the models from the lettering in Lanchester’s style added Lanchester, including a number of 1946) which have been carefully westward-facing first-floor window by Nigel Pressnell, the very thin wing personal letters, and reprints of early restored by Martyn Pressnell, FRAeS, of his home in Olton, Warwickshire, tips and trailing edges of the other papers on aerodynamics by Ludwig are now on display at the National over a series of flights undertaken original model which had become Prandtl (1875-1953) from the Aerospace Library, probably the first time during June and July 1894 achieving damaged being used to shape a new collection of F W Lanchester which they have been publicly displayed in living a flight distance of up to 290 yards wing of elliptical planform. had been presented by the author. memory having been stored in a large over an undulating and swerving wooden box (measuring 51 inches x 21 flight path in strong wind conditions. inches) which had not been opened for Carved from pine, the models many years. bore hand-written identifications as The models were originally being 1894 half-size model and presented to the Royal Aeronautical 1894 half-scale model and one may ROYAL AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY Society by Lanchester’s widow Mrs be the ‘gliding model’ which Dorothea Lanchester, the then Lanchester loaned for display at the No.4 Hamilton Place Secretary of the Society J Laurence Royal Aeronautical Society’s Pritchard acknowledging their extensive historical exhibit at the LONDON W1 receipt in a letter dated 14 International Aero Exhibition held at September 1946: Olympia 16-27 July 1929. “The box containing the two flying A detailed list of the exhibits was The Proprietors again beg to inform the Nobility, Gentry and Public of the models arrived safely at the office published in the Society’s Journal yesterday. They are, indeed, that year which records on page Aerospace and remarkable and will be for all time 1003: one of the Society’s most treasured possessions. When I examined them AEROFOIL, 1894 Aviation Book Fair carefully and understood the Actual aerofoil constructed in 1894 tested astonishing foresight behind their on Gottingen in 1913 and certified as construction I had a look at one of giving lift/drag ratio — 17, when best Monday, 21 November 2011 11.00-17.00 the latest fast jet machines, and previously tested there or elsewhere — 15. A great opportunity to browse and buy from a range of aviation there, fifty years afterwards, was Lent by F. W. Lanchester, FRS, HonFRAeS booksellers and publishers. something which, in principle, was very little from your husband’s GLIDER, 1894 Visit the National Aerospace Library stand selling a models of 1894.” One of some five or six made to same large range of new/secondhand books and journals. Lanchester provided a detailed design and flown at Olton, Warwickshire summary of the flying experiments in 1894. Partake from the RAeS merchandise range. undertaken with his ‘Aerodrone’ Note: High aspect ratio and “wash out” of models in his book Aerodonetics camber of aerofoil. Also two vertical fins (London: Constable & Co Ltd 1908) to give lateral and directional stability. FREE ADMISSION the companion volume to Lent by F. W. Lanchester, FRS, HonFRAeS Aerodynamics: constituting the first Please contact the Conference and Events Department to RSVP: volume of a complete work on aerial In the process of restoration the Tel: +44 (0)20 7670 4345 e-mail: [email protected] flight (London: Constable. 1907) — a 36 inch span wind-tunnel wing

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The ‘Vansteed’ of 1950. Christine Woodward photo. The ‘Jaguar’ of 1948. Christine Woodward photo.

he growing hanging display of aircraft models which can Tbe viewed at the National Aerospace Library at Farnborough was added to on 11 May 2012 through the donation of two further models in the Wakefield series — the Wakefield Jaguar and Vansteed. During the inter-war and the early post-WW2 years, prior to radio control becoming available to modellers, the Wakefield specification set the standards for model flying aircraft and through the efforts of Martyn Pressnell, FRAeS (who has beautifully restored these donated models), the National Aerospace Library now holds a pre-eminent collection of these significant designs. In 1948 the Wakefield International Cup held at Akron, Ohio, was won by the ‘Jaguar’ — a striking design by Ted Evans with a prominent under-belly which enabled a shorter undercarriage to be used — the last occasion that this prestigious trophy was won for Great Britain. In 1950 Evans produced the ‘Vansteed’ (an anagram of his name) — an innovative design incorporating diagonal longerons and a feathering propeller — in which was culminated the epitome of the Wakefield specification before the rules were significantly amended, fixing the cross-section independent of the overall length. Also on display at the Library are a replica of the 1930 winner of the Wakefield International Cup designed and flown by Joseph Earhardt of St Louis, Missouri, a replica of the 1936 winner of the Wakefield International Cup designed and flown by Albert Judge when the competition was staged at Wayne County Airport, Michigan, and a 1939 Flying Minutes Wakefield designed to the revised international rules setting the minimum AUW at eight ounces. An important design trend setter, it continued to attract young model flyers in its kit form during the wartime years when powered model flying was restricted for reasons of security.

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