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THE WORLD’S ONLY RC SCALE MODEL MAGAZINE
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65” WINGSPAN TRIKE-UNDERCARRIAGE WARBIRD FOR ELECTRIC POWER
FULL PLAN CONSTRUCTION FEATURE
BELL P-39
AIRACOBRA
December 2016
No. 205 £4.99
FORGOTTEN FIGHTERS!
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TYPE HISTORY
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FLYING COLOURS & SCALE DRAWING
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ON THE COVER
The Bell P-39 Airacobra is an
undeniably sleek and shapely
WW2 warbird. Dick Edmonds’
65” span electric powered
model is our major construction
feature this month, seen here on
landing approach at Dick’s
personal flying field, smack bang
next door to his home!
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Just for starters
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master models:
FOKKER D.XXI
A rare radial engine early WW2 fighter from the
Jerry Bates Plans stable
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FOKKER D.XXI TYPE HISTORY
Simple, rugged and practical, this neat little fighter found its
greatest success with the air arm of Finland, against the
might of Soviet Russia.
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D.XXI FLYING COLOURS
The Fokker D.XXI in warpaint
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D.XXI SCALE DRAWING
1: 50 scale three view
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Bell P-39 AirCOBRA
The Airacobra is a WW2 fighter largely ignoed by Warbirders,
so why no change all that with Dick Edmonds; 65” wingspan
sport-scale design for electric power
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P-39 IN DETAIL
Close-up detail photo study
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P-39 SCALE DRAWING
1:50 fine-line three-view drawings
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P-39 FLYING COLOURS
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P-39 TYPE HISTORY
Warpaint in the air arms that flew the Airacobra
One of only two viable and available US Army Air Corps fighters
when USA entered WW2, the P-39 did sterling work at a time
when needed
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GOUPY BiplanE
An electric powered model of an unusual pre-WW1 aircraft for
three-function control. Designed by Peter Rake, with the prototype
model built and test flown by Phil Burress
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the LOZENGE pattern conundrum
The late Ron Moulton extensively researched these unusual
German WW1 camouflage schemes
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SCALE SOARING
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QUIET ZONE
Enjoy the last of the 2016 summer wine, scale sailplane style,
with Chris Williams
Peter Rake offers full size plans for a Deprom sheet profile scale
indoor Grumman F4F Wildcat.
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IN PRAISE OF LESSER WARBIRDS
he more adventurous among Scale Warbird enthusiasts seek
to take their ‘must build’ list beyond the usual perennial
favourites of Spitfires, Mustangs and Messerschmitts, not
forgetting the WW1 era, where the
Dawn Patrol
group have
moved spectacularly beyond the S.E.5a, Sopwith Camels and
Fokker D.VIIs. One wonders therefore why the WW2 era has no parallel
organisation.
Beyond the WW2 era, into the jet age of aviation, scale modelling
becomes exponentially more expensive, with gas turbines
This month’s issue deals with two of the less prominent aircraft from
the WW2 era. Firstly, the Bell P-39 Airacobra, not necessarily all that
obscure, but rarely modelled - perhaps due to an unflattering reputation
as a fighter aircraft of which, repetitious uncomplimentary anecdotal
stories have become part of aviation history myth.
Some of the more studious aviation historians have tended to counter
this. The P-39 was the first fighter aircraft to enter service with a tricycle
undercarriage. It was hobbled at birth by the customer’s decision to
dispense with the engine supercharger originally specified and applied
to the prototype. It was a pre-WW2 design from an isolationist nation
unfamiliar with, and disinterested in developments elsewhere. The
Airacobra was a timeline contemporary of the Curtiss P-40, which has
received far more complimentary appreciation.
One of the more thoughtful analyses of the Airacobra can be found in
Dr. Rene Francillon’s book
‘American Fighters of WW2 Vol.1’
. It carries a
comparative table of performance between P-39 and P-40, which shows
the P-39 with noticeable performance advantage in speed and climb rate
at all altitudes right up to service ceiling, where the Airacobra
climbed higher.
Robert F.Dorr and Jerry Scutts provide a far more detailed picture in
their book Bell P-39 Airacobra which provides an interesting clue
concerning the ’Cobra’s reputational tendency to snap into a spin at low
speed, particularly during landing approach. In this book a reminiscence
by a flight instructor at one the US fighter training establishments
comments that by 1944, with P-38 Lightnings, P-47s and P-51 Mustangs
well into front line service, P-39s were being fed to the training
establishments. The combination of the Airacobra’s questionably
rearward fore/aft balance point (C.G.) and straight-out-of-flight-school
rookie pilots led to a string of fatalities, mostly occurring during the
landing approach.
In comparison, the Russians who received thousands of P-39s,
admired the Airacobra greatly in a land war where lower level ground
support was an important part of their ever westward drive against the
German Wehrmacht. Many Russian fighter units transferred to the P-39
in preference to Spitfires and Hurricanes.
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onsiderably less well known are the Fokker fighters of the WW2
era, not least of course because the Netherlands was overrun by
German Forces in May 1940. Prior to that, Fokker had developed
the G.1 (Reaper) twin boom, twin radial engine ‘heavy fighter’ and D.23,
also twin boom, but smaller and with twin engines located front and rear
of the
fuselage ‘pod’.
There was also the Fokker D.XXI single engine fighter, production of
which never achieved great numbers due to the 1940 German
occupation, by which time only about 36 of these aircraft had been
delivered to the Netherlands Air Arm.
Far greater success with this aircraft was achieved by the Air Arm of
Finland, where at least twice as many D.XXIs were manufactured under
licence and flown with distinction against Russian forces.
Our
Master Models
feature this month spotlights a first class example
built from the Jerry Bates plan, backed up by the service history of this
neat little fighter.
Thus, those lesser known types can be just as intriguing and
rewarding as scale modelling types. so why not start trolling the
archives?
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