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
Switch on • Our latest round up of model flying news and miscellany
VOLANTEX P-51D MUSTANG & SPORT CUB • John Daniels tests a couple of mini models that are ideal for small field flying
BRITISH SCALE NATIONALS • Danny Fenton had a few jobs to do in order to ready his F4C Hurricane and F4H Auster for the UK’s top scale competition at BMFA Buckminster
SCOUT EXPERIMENTAL 5A • Nick Fellah presents a pictorial storyboard of the scale details undertaken when building his DB SES5a, with additional static pictures supplied by Danny Fenton
WHEN LIFT TAKES A COFFEE BREAK • Chris Williams and friends enjoy another scale get together atop White Sheet Hill, plus CW maidens yet another soarer. The man is a model making machine!
MILES MAGISTER PART 3 • Roy Thompson finishes and flies his newly restored Bowmans semi-scale kit
Pilots’ Pictorial • Get your planes in print! Get in touch… kcrozier@mortons.co.uk
SPARMAX ARISM MINI KIT (CHRISTMAS EDITION) • Barry Stevens unwraps a seasonal airbrush and matching compressor set
NEW STYLE • Build this simple to build small glider and go back to basics when launching it. Ton van Munsteren shows how
Counterpoint • A selection of new gadgets, kits and bits for you to buy
TRIALS & TRIBULATIONS • Dave Goodenough begins this month’s selection of shed and flying field topics with a dodgy test flight
OVERLANDER RC-S100neo • Barry Stevens upgrades to a new balance charger
All Write • Have your say in RCM&E’s monthly chat room
INDOOR FLYING OBJECTS • This time John Stennard covers a bit of ‘retro’ indoor flying, plus some up-to-date models and further No-Cal adventures
PRESTBURY HELI DAY • Last summer the Prestbury Park club in Gloucestershire hosted their inaugural scale helicopter event. Steve Tew reports on the wide variety of models present
DJI NEO • Kevin Crozier flight tests a palm sized photo drone
Going Places • Diary dates for the coming season
Marketplace • Sell off your unwanted airframes and engines or maybe buy a few new ones
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