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07 PREFLIGHT Heard at the Hangar Doors 08 SHOPTALK New products review 12 EVEREST CONQUEROR! Martin Fardell’s majestic quarter scale scratch-built Westland Wallace 20 WARBIRDS OVER SHROPSHIRE Whittaker takes his camera to the Spring North West Warbirds Event at Sleap 26 SILENT WINGS With age comes wisdom - but senior moments too - all’s well that ends well however! 31 AIRWORLD HAWKER HUNTER Supermarine produced the most beautiful piston engined fighter of all time but Hawker responded with the sublime Hunter in the jet age! 34 FEENEYS FLIGHT FILE Delta dabbling, and a bumped backside! Gerard Feeney catches up... 66 PIAGET Bruce builds the TechOne Piaget EPP F3P indoor foam aerobat 75 INCOMING Reader’s Talkback! Got a beef, useful comment, or sound advice on any aspect of the hobby that you’d like to pass on? 78 TEMPUS FUGIT Time Flies, looking back 75, 50 and 25 years ago in The Aeromodeller 82 THE NORTHERN MODELLING EXHIBITION Whittaker visits Darkest Mancunia for this inaugural multi-disciplinary modelling event 90 WHAT, WHERE, WHEN Classified events diary 92 MILLER’S TALES Building your own models is no longer fashionable - or is it? 94 WEBWALK Mike Evatt scours cyberspace once more 38 HOLIDAY ON ICE Mike’s quarter century report from the land of the midnight sun 42 HALLAM HOT PLATE Mike advocates the simple approach, with great results! 46 IN SCALE CIRCLES The end of an era - sadly F4B at the World Champs is no more! 50 BESTSHOT From the lower slopes of Cadir Idris, the views across the Mawddach estuary are stunning – slope flying adds another dimension to the hobby! 52 FOR OLD TIMES’ SAKE More vintage from Don Howie 56 COUPE EXTRAORDINAIRE Mike Evatt presents Frenchman Michel Picol’s contest winning F1G 60 MODEL ROCKETRY 5-4-3-2-1... HOW TO START WHAT, HOW, WHY...three key questions AVIATION MODELLER INTERNATIONAL