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The Magazine for the Radio Control Modeller Radio Control Model News RCM News The magazine for the radio control modeller Radio Control Model News RCM news MORE PAGES! The Christmas edition was scaled up 1.14% to lift an extra 16 pages. l Shepparton Mammoth Scale Number 93 l Learning to fly - stick n rudder Australia: $8.95 l The Project - 1911 Caudron racer Inc GST l New products PRODUCT REVIEWS l JR PCM 12X 2.4 l Supertiger G-34 l World Models Cap 232 l Awesome Mig 15 l Awesome Sea Vixen l Awesome Chinook l Austars Ag-Husky l Famous Models Rafale l Dolphinco Edge 540T l APL Defender l E-Go Models MLD 500 l Sport Flyers Rythym Regular Columns l RC Scale Forum l Flying Electrics l Spooling Up l R/C Helitech l Scale Aerobatics l R/C Helitech l Scale Aerobatics l Large Scale Air Racing Australia Print Post Publication No: PP3466 9310 003 -bird RADIO CONTROL MODEL NEWS Contents: Issue 93. December-January 2008-2009 6 The leading Egde by Brian Green. 49 Product Review: Awesome R/C 83 Product Review: Dolphin Co Edge 540T. Sea Vixen by Stephen Green. 25% scale with a good finish and 8 Shepparton Mammoth Scale. Now on patrol fighting birds. construction reports Les Marriner. Bigger again says Ken Thomas. 88 Product Review: APL Defender. 16 Stick n Rudder. 52 Product Review: Famous Models David Hipperson with an RTF, built Use it for more than just taking off. Rafale EDF. right here in Australia. So easy to launch. 91 Product Review: Awesome R/C Chinook. 19 Product Review: Awesome R/C Mig 15. Reg Neville adds another indoor heli Dean Williams goes down Mig Alley. 55 Large Scale Air Racing with Stephen Green. to his collection. You want to race what now? 93 RC Helitech with Justin Church. Geoff Sussmans BK 117 and flying the Blitz Avro. 32 Product Review: Supertigre G-34. 57 Scale Aerobatics with Steve Richardson. A nice little engine say Neil Giggins. The 2009 Tuscon Shootout. 101 Product Review: E-Go Models MLD-500. Hardly any says Stuart Claire. Fly in doors or out and forward flight. 64 NEW PRODUCTS. 36 Product Review: Austars Ag-Husky. 66 Spooling Up with Andy Bolle. Ross Bathie builds it in just 21 days. Temora Jets, Prolynx Struts Pt2, the $6 million upgrade. 103 Flying Electrics with David Hipperson. Flying Flea, ASM Panther, ESC pro gramming, Easy Bee. 72 Product Review: World Models Cap 232. Dean Williams finds good perform- 44 Product Review: JR PCM 12X 2.4. ance straight out out of the box. by Brian Green. 112 RC Scale Forum with Frank Curzon. The Pace Spirit, 1910 Hanriot- a likely contender, Showtime, NSW State Champs, the Next Monty. 76 The Project. Caudron racer circa 1911. 122 Advertising policy. 123 Market Place Hobby Shop Service Guide. 4 Subscribe andwww.rcmn.com.au. get delivery to your door and save dollars Radio Control Model News Advertisers Index. INTRODUCING OUR NEW PALM-SIZED POWERHOUSE Blade® mCX Bind-N-Fly™: Fly It with Any DSM2 Compatible Transmitter What more could you want from an ultra micro heli? E-flite’s Blade® mCX Bind-N-Fly™ offers more than enough excitement for any pilot. With as much technology as the Blade CX2 packed into one ounce and with a main rotor diameter of 190mm, this 4-channel heli can be flown with precision and control anywhere indoors, making it the perfect alternative for those times when you can’t make it out to a park or flying field. Compatible with all DSM2™ aircraft transmitters, the Blade mCX Bind-N-Fly is a stylish heli that offers DSM2 transmitter owners a one-of-a-kind indoor experience. All you need to do is bind the Blade mCX to your transmitter and your adventure into the new era of RC flight begins. It even includes the Lithium Polymer battery and charger for lightwieght power and great performance. Want to see one in action? Visit your local E-flite dealer. These hot helis are sure to fly off the shelves. © 2008 L.O’Reilly Pty Ltd trading as OMP. E-flite® products are distributed exclusively by OMP in Australia. DSM and DSM2 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Horizon Hobby, Inc, and licensed in Australia to O’Reilly Model Products. The Spektrum trademark is used with permission of Bachmann Industries, Inc. Spektrum radios and accessories are exclusively available from OMP. The Leading Edge It’s interesting to compare our appar- was telling me about the extremely exciting COVER PIC ently forthcoming economic situation Red Bull air races he had attended on the with similar ones in the past. Back when Swan river in Perth. Wow and Wow are modellers spent leisure time putting kits just a little of what the experience was for together, then covering the finished struc- him. That night in bed, the brain starting ture, installing the gear and then go flying, ticking over, why not something similar for recessions did not have a really big impact us, RC models. “Holy Cow Air Racing” on our hobby trade. Of course if you had avoids any copyright problems. Ten laps lost your job and had no reasonable chance around a two hundred metre long course of employment, it truly did. But for those with aerobatic manoeuvres performed on who had their working hours reduced, the straights. One model at a time though. leisure time that could be spent on putting Slow roll, four point roll, fast roll, inverted kits together increased. And therefore the flight, knife edge flight are just some. The The full size MK 16 Supermarine Spitfire, cost of enjoying our hobby could be spread fastest time wins. Say four classes based on on which Chris Henry from Twin Cities over a long period of time. engine size, up to and fifty CC, up to and based his superb model, has quite a But today we buy our models and seventy five CC, up to and a hundred CC history. It originally flew in 1944 and they just require a few short hours to put and open above that. So what about it, is it took park in 17 operations over Germany. together. The enjoyment comes from the a goer? After surviving the hostilities, it had a flying side and there is a cost with that. We were having a cuppa between fl starring role in the film “Reach For The Even the cost of transport to and from the ights at the field recently when the talk Sky” before being shipped to Wanaka flying field can mount up. turned to the models being manufactured in N.Z., where it stayed for over ten years. It Maybe the smaller indoor helis and tiny China. Talk about the variable quality and is now at Temora NSW. The model, built park flyers that can be flown locally so one. Then one question was, how come from a Yellow Aircraft kit, has quite a will be our saviour. On that subject, Reg China has basically come from nowhere in history as well being ten years old. Neville, whose name graces these pages the aeromodelling world to one who now Ken Thomas pic. from time to time, has really got into the produces most of the world’s ARF models? indoor heli scene, big time as he now has After all the U.S.A. Europe and Japan, then China’s virtual domination of the world’s around twelve of the little beggars. He later on Vietnam have been the traditional ARF manufacturing market. organises an indoor heli day each week in a players. I was fortunate enough to be in Our team of Bill Bloodworth, Steve hall South of Melbourne and the attendance China in the late eighties for an aerobatic Coram and Glenn Orchard are back from is growing at an alarming rate. Helis and competition and during the event had the the Combined Asia Oceania Continental tiny aircraft are the go. During the last visit opportunity to engage with long talks with Championships, (CAOCC), aerobatic to our place he was flying one of his little the CD Huang Yongliang. He told me that championship in Taiwan and have done helis in and out of the furniture. For more aeromodelling is considered a sport and well, finishing just behind the highly details give him a call on (03) 9803 2342. each region in China has a Government professional Japanese in the team result. Then Ian Boyd from Hstore in Sydney sports administration body. Aeromodelling Individual placings had Bill in Fourth just rang to say they have a very popular indoor coaches are employed by this body and go seventy eight points in a thousand from event the second Saturday each month. You around the schools teaching aeromodel- third, Steve just behind in Fifth and Glenn can call Ian on (02) 9525 7540 for more ling (control line and free flight) to those in his first International competition in info. students who are interested. Each school Ninth. After the preliminary flights that are The last week in October we were buy- then held annual competitions and the win- to a known schedule of manoeuvres, the ing a piece of furniture. We had found what ners of these then were entered in regional next stage in the event, the semi finals, are we wanted and were standing there just events where the winners progressed up flights to both a far more difficult and an looking at it. Along came a sales lady with the competition chain that culminated in unknown schedule. Competitors are told a sticker in her hand and went to place it on the National Championships and then entry of these at a meeting the night before.
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