Catering for all aspects of R/C flying, Radio Control Models and Electronics first appeared in May 1960 and is the biggest and best selling monthly model flying magazine in the United Kingdom with a large overseas readership. RCM&E has brought benchmark levels of writing and photography to the hobby and each issue has extensive reviews, informative features and opinionated columns from a number of well-known contributors.
WELCOME • Editor: Kevin Crozier. Mortons Media Group, Media Centre, Morton Way, Horncastle, Lincs LN9 6JR kcrozier@mortons.co.uk
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L-39 ALBATROS • Arrows are back with another mini jet and this time there’s an on-board stabiliser. David Ashby puts some LiPos on charge
O&R SPARKIE MODS • Tim Hooper returns to his sparkie project and fettles a few accessories
PILOTS’ PICTORIAL • Get your planes in print! Get in touch... kcrozier@mortons.co.uk
MODELLING YOUR OWN SUCCESS • Ask Graham Ashby and he’ll tell you that success in model flying isn’t about winning, having the fastest or being the best
TWO FOR ONE • Danny Fenton reports from the British Scale Nationals at Buckminster, incorporating the Euro Scale Master Championship, from 6 – 10 Sept
LYRA REVISITED • Adrian Britton’s sporty biplane design is still timeless thirty years after it was first published. Dick van Mourik builds an updated version
YELLOW • Ton van Munsteren redesigns a classic .049 design for electric power and modern lightweight radio control gear
DRACAN • Terry Anderson offers up an easy to build canard based on his popular Hanky Planky
SEVEN DAY CHALLENGE • For his Gemini project John Hutson gave himself just a week to draw up, build and fly his latest own design aircraft
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F3A WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS • This month Keith Jackson’s aerobatics column features a report from the 32nd F3A World Champs held in Warwick, Australia earlier this year
POPHAM 2023 • Despite a congested calendar causing a low trade turnout our reporter Mike Freeman and other visitors enjoyed some fine flying displays at this popular model show
GOING PLACES • Diary dates for the coming season
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