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4 CONTACT Just for openers Full size plan feature 6 MAX HOLSTE 152 R/C A 34” wingspan R/C enlargement of George Wooll’s 1954 free flight original using electric power 12 MAX HOLSTE 152 Free flight George Woolls' 25” wingspan rubber power free flight scale model resurected from AeroModeller April 1954 issue 14 SPORT SCALE MASTERCLASS PART 3 GORDON WHITEHEAD continues with aerodynamic considerations 20 SCALE SOARING Recent fair weather scale sailplane events provided a ‘lift’ for both models and participants alike! 24 Savoia marchetti SM79 sparviero Italy's WW2-era tri-motor 'Sparrowhawk' bomber, modelled to 53.5” wingspan for triple electric power, designed by KEN SHEPPARD, 30 SM79 flying COLOURS Combat colours for the ‘Sparrowhawk’ 34 SM79 SCALE DRAWING 1: 100 scale three-views 36 SM79 TYPE HISTORY From airliner to long distance racer and record setter, to front-line WW2 bomber, this was possibly the hottest piston-engine tri-motor ever 42 FOKKER D.VII PART 2 Detailing and finishing are what produces a first class scale model. Here's how to do it for the 1/4 & 1/5 scale WW1 biplane presented last month. Plenty to learn from this, even if you're not actually looking to model the D.VII 50 FOKKER PILOT What was it really like - back then? This story, based on an incident in Ernst Udet's biography 'Mein Fliergerlegen' gives some clue 54 FOKKER D.VII SKETCHBOOK Some details of the intracies of the bare airframe of the full size Fokker D.VII 60 FOKKER D.VII IN DETAIL Close-up details of the RAF Museum, Hendon’s machine, right after completion of the restoration work some years ago