subman

Anyone tell me it's more interesting to get old copies of Model Maker/Model Aircraft etc from the 50/60's out of the loft and read them than the latest editions of our magazines.

Maybe I'm just reliving old crashes/sinkings/two left wings.

I still think my favourite trick? was hand launching a diesel powered plane with the engine running backwards several times before I cottoned on.

I also got the sack from an engineering lab in Oxford for starting a student's (who had spent days trying to start it)new Frog 249bb in the lab!
I think the Dean objected to the noise!!

Life and nothing on the building board

Subman

wonwinglo

The magazines of the fifties were some of the best ever produced,the publishers then really went to town to produce first class material and plans,and once more they are still useable and practical,some of the free drawings in current mags are simply awful,very few of the plans are checked properly,consequently you get parts that just do not fit properly or mate up,the plans are usually produced 'after' the model has been made,instead of careful templates being kept to produce proper working drawings.
Some of the best free planes appeared in 'Model Aircraft' magazine,I still mourn the passing or should I say amalgamation with another mag.
Its editorial team were the best,quite a lot of material also from the late Doug McHard, superb modeller in his own right.
Hoard those old mags,they really were the best because they cared in those days.

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subman

Hi Chinese pilot

Did you ever read the copy of M/A that got past the censor with it's very(for those days)sexual meanings.

It was based on a R/C outfit review!!!

My local model shop owner even came round my house to try to retrieve my copy!!

Rgds

Subman (retired "you bring down and I will test fly it specialist)

Even the ones with foam wings joined with balsa cement? OUCH!!!

wonwinglo

Chinese pilot indeed LOL !
I dont remember that one Subman,but I am sure that it must have been one of those risque things,keep on test flying those flying bricks,you know the sort of thing lift up by the wings and the tail goes down to he ground ! half a house brick on the nose will soon fix it says the builder,well someone has got to test fly them ?

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Bunkerbarge

I have a few old model engineering mags and I always enjoy having a flick through them. They certainly are of a better editorial quality and content than todays offerrings.