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
CUMUL • Fancy trying your hand at a Discus Launch Glider? John Stennard builds a well thought out DLG kit from Kavan
HOOTS MON! • Shaun Garrity buys a secondhand model and finds ‘…a mouse loose aboot this hoose’
MAXED OUT • In the search for better aerobatic performance from an old airframe the Editor turns to 4-Max Models for advice
1911 DEPERDUSSIN • The first flight of any model can set nerves jangling but imagine what it feels like when your new aircraft is to three quarters scale! Ian Turney-White describes the build and maiden flights of his latest giant Edwardian monoplane
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SERVO SCIENCE • Mike Freeman offers advice on some of the things to consider when choosing a servo
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F9F PANTHER • Tony Nijhuis returns with the second EDF jet in his latest series of TN Mini Jets
FRUITY RADIO • Shaun Garrity flight tests the latest ‘Generation 2’ receivers from Lemon
MOTOR MUTTERING • Dave Goodenough starts to clean up a bargain glow motor
GOING PLACES • Diary dates for the coming season
SCALE INDOOR NATIONALS • Danny Fenton takes a break from his Contest Director duties to report from the BMFA’s spring scale bonanza
CLASSIC PROPS • The last weekend of July last year saw some of the UK’s top pilots heading for Wales for a relaxed weekend of propeller driven fun flying. Barry Atkinson joined them to capture the action
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