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from RCM&E July issue 20-Page FREE preview

HOOTS MON!

Editor: Kevin Crozier. Mortons Media Group, Media Centre, Morton Way, Horncastle, Lincs LN9 6JR kcrozier@mortons.co.uk

Welcome to the July 2023 issue of RCM&E.

Our town has long had one of those discount supermarkets famed for its centre isle bargains. But it’s a relatively small store and parking is a bit of a nightmare, especially as it seems to attract the kind of driver who tend to throw their large SUVs in at random angles. It’s only a few minutes away but it’s also up a busy road, hidden behind a parade of older shops, so it’s easy to put to the back of one’s mind if you’re the kind of person, like I am, that is attracted to their famous centre isle to scour it for cheap tools and other bargains to populate a model building area with. In fact, I haven’t been in there for quite a while, not since the last time that they had rapidly depleting stocks of their long-awaited small foam gliders (by aeromodellers at least!) which are ripe for conversion to radio control.

However, just before last Christmas this supermarket’s main rivals arrived in town, championed by an orange vegetable with the same forename as yours truly! Their shiny new store, much larger than their competitor’s, has a big car park with enough room to park well away from the ‘throw it in sideways’ merchants. And, to make matters worse, it is only a short walk away and is situated just of f the main road that I have to take every time I go f lying.

Of course, such temptation is now very dif ficult to overcome and I find myself inextricably drawn to the delights of its centre aisles at least once or twice a month, of ten on the slightly tenuous grounds of volunteering to nip round for some item missed from the weekly shop. Even if there’s nothing to immediately attract my attention their dastardly marketing coves have a cunning ploy up their sleeves by lining the packing shelves just af ter the checkouts with thin brochures advertising soon to be available bargains, with the hard to resist tagline, ‘Available in store next Thursday!’ This has worked at least twice recently, the first requiring an early morning dash to grab a voluminous ‘Angler’s Backpack’ to replace my well-worn modelling rucksack. Then, only last week, I was at it again, this time snif fing out the location of some neatly packaged ‘precision’ hand tools. I really only wanted to look at the micro drill set but ended up with their small hand saw and tiny screwdriver bit sets too! Oh, and while I was at it, those bargain pegboards looked very handy, especially as I was just about to start hanging up some of my expanding modelling tool collection. Two of those as well, please…

So cunning Kevin has got me in his ﬁrm grip. I think I need some non-retail therapy!

It’s time now to take a brief look at what we have lined up for you in the July issue of RCM&E, starting as usual with our regular columns.

In Retro Ramblings, Shaun Garrity buys a remodelled Graupner Kwik Fly which once provided shelter for a mouse and its many relatives. Shaun also looks at DB designed Micro-Mold kits and pays tribute to MFA. Next, in One Man & His Shed, Dave Goodenough starts to clean up a bargain priced SC glow motor.

Tony Nijhuis returns as the designer of this month’s Pro-Plan feature with the latest EDF model in his new Mini Jet series. This time the spotlight falls on the F9F Panther, which has numerous colourful schemes to choose from.

Our feature articles begin with Ian Turney-White’s description of his new giant scale Edwardian era aeroplane, a mighty Deperdussin from 1911. Mike Freeman is next, taking the lead to describe some of the things to consider when choosing a servo for your next R/C aeroplane. Then it’s time for this month’s event reports, starting with Danny Fenton’s photo essay hot foot from the Scale Indoor Nationals. Barry Atkinson has been out and about with a camera too, joining some of the UK’s top pilots at Classic Props as they headed for Wales for a relaxing weekend of propeller driven fun f lying.

On review this month John Stennard builds a well thought out Discus Launch Glider kit, the Kavan Cumul, before yours truly looks at pepping up the aerobatic performance of an old airframe with a little help from 4-Max Models. Shaun Garrity ﬁnishes of f this month’s reviews as he f light tests the latest ‘Generation 2’ receivers from Lemon.

I hope you enjoy reading it all.

Happy Flying!

Bob

On The Cover

Mark Parker’s Laser vee-twin powered Gloster Gamecock is a real stunner, built to the highest standard. Mark’s model was one of several ﬁne scale models that visited the Classic Props event held on the last weekend of July 2022 near picturesque Usk on the Welsh borders.

John Stennard builds a well thought out Discus Launch Glider kit. 22