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Issue No.29

AUSTRALIAN MODEL NEWS

August 2014

Australian Model News page 2

Australian Model News is published bi-monthly to fea-ture model aircraft building and flying, together with other associated events, in Australia and New Zea-land. Contributing material and requests for inclusion on the distribution list may be forwarded to — John Lamont Unit 5, 1326 Main Road, Eltham, 3095 Ph: 03 9431 0044 E-mail: [email protected]

I’ve had a fairly average time from early June to mid-July with a nasty chest complaint that saw me spend a day in the hospital checking for a pos-sible heart attack. It turned out to be nothing other than a pain caused by a lot of coughing but it was a reminder that I’m getting on in years and what used to be minor problems now have to be treated a bit more seriously. Enough of the ‘hearts and flowers’ and back to modelling. It’s the middle of winter — cold and wet — but still we fly! The Wagga scale event in late April was well attended as was the Vicscale Trophy at Shep-parton in early June. The Bairnsdale modellers had a successful scale event at their new field and the NSW free flighters enjoyed a good competition at their new field at West Wyalong. The free flight scale event at Richmond was held at an excellent venue in bright, sunny weather and the control line flyers are still full of enthusiasm. My thanks to all who assisted with photographs and reports from these events. The World Scale Championships are now in pro-gress in Marmande, France and those interested in the performance of the Australian team can find details on the WSC website at http://wc2014f4c.ffam.asso.fr John Lamont.

On the Cover. Brian Evans’ DHC-2 “Beaver” is an ARF by VQ Models

Contents 3. BRUCE HEARN 1946 - 2014 4. TYABB AIR SHOW 2014 8. KNOX WARBIRDS 10. VICSCALE TROPHY 2014 12. WAGGA WARBIRDS 2014 16. NSW FREE FLIGHT STATE

CHAMPIONSHIPS 2014 18. MID-MAY MUSTER 2014 AT BAIRNSDALE AND DISTRICT MAC 20. BARRIE REABY’S FW 56 STÖSSER 22. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MODELLERS PREPARE FOR THE 2016 WORLD CONTROL LINE CHAMPIONSHIPS. 23. ALAN BEGGS’ CA-28 “CERES” 24. RICHMOND FREE FLIGHT SCALE RALLY AND THE TRANS TASMAN CHALLENGE COMING EVENTS DAFFODIL DAY AT GREENSBOROUGH MAC RINGMASTER FLY-A-THON 31ST SEAPLANE EVENT AT TWIN CITIES MAC VICTORIAN FREE FLIGHT SOCIETY’S 9TH ANNUAL INDOOR SCALE EVENT

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Bruce was the son of the late Keith Hearn who, together with his two brothers Jack and Bruce (snr), established Hearn’s Hobbies in Mel-bourne immediately after WW2. Bruce was proud of his Hearn family history as four succes-sive generations were in-volved in various aspects of aviation. His grandfather Jack (snr) was in the Royal Flying Corps during WW1, his father and both uncles served as RAAF officers and pilots dur-ing WW2 and his son, Adrian,

is currently a captain with Virgin Australia. Bruce enjoyed a shared interest in both full sized flying and aeromod-elling, he built and flew models and became a qualified glider and powered aircraft pilot. In the 1980’s he restored a DH.82 Tiger Moth (registered VH-KEH in memory of his father) and in more recent times he also built replicas of famous vintage aircraft for display purposes. The Hearn family were very active in the Gliding Club of Victoria and Bruce was happy to be indoctrinated. Many weekends were spent at the Berwick and Benalla airfields as well as at Surrey Park and other model flying fields. In the early 1970’s he obtained his private pilot’s license and soon after became a glider tug pilot, flying tugs on week-end roster at Benalla for over 20 years. A memory he cherished from his tug pilot days was flying alongside his father as they came in to land. His son, Adrian, also gained valuable flying experience as a tug pilot and Bruce flew tugs alongside Adrian, just as he had done with his own father some 20 years earlier. At the family holiday house at Bonnie Doon happy times revolved around model flying and boating with many aeromodellers visiting for fun days of slope soaring gliders and flying model seaplanes at Lake Eildon.

In his spare time, Bruce always had a ‘project’ to work on. In the 1960’s it was a hot rod based around a T- Model Ford, followed by hang gliders and ultralight aircraft. The 1980’s were taken up by the Tiger Moth restoration. In 1991 Bruce and Adrian, who was then 12 years old, flew the Tiger Moth from Benalla to Temora where it was judged ‘The Best and Most Original” Tiger Moth. In retirement, Bruce joined the Australian Gliding Museum and rel-ished being involved in various projects, including the building of three George Taylor replica gliders – one of which is now hanging in the foyer of the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. He served as the vice-president of the AGM and enjoyed being involved with this group of like-minded enthusiasts who have an impressive collection of vintage gliders in their hangar at Bacchus Marsh airfield. Bruce’s interest in aeromodelling continued and in 2010 he built a model Catalina which now hangs in the bistro dining area of the Box Hill RSL. Bruce enjoyed good health until late in 2011, when he was diagnosed with a severe form of cancer. During his illness Bruce undertook the building of a replica Otto Lilienthal glider and, hopefully, this last pro-ject will be displayed at the World Gliding Championships to be held at Benalla in 2016. Bruce had the skills to create true technical works of art and thorough-ly enjoyed all aviation related activities and the friendships he made through these activities. He was able to happily blend these achieve-ments with a very productive and fruitful career and a rich family life. Bruce is survived by his mother Betty, his wife Judith, three children, eight grand children, a sister and two uncles.


I missed this air show back in March as my priority at the time was to attend the 100th Anniversary of the RAAF at Point Cook. Fortunately Norm Hearn went to Tyabb with his father Jack and was able to obtain the accompanying photographs taken by Stuart Davies. It was obviously a fine display, held in much better weather condi-tions than the Point Cook event, and with a nice collection of aircraft on display. I had intended to include this report in the last issue of AMN but modelling events had to take priority and it was bumped to this is-sue. Enjoy Stuart’s photography and I’ll make a point of attending in 2016 if all goes well.

(Photographs by Stuart Davies)

Tyabb Air Show 2014


Flt Lt Jack Hearn, 24 years old and CO of No.5 Squadron RAAF, with his Kittyhawk fighter at Bougainville in 1945. Jack also flew Boomerangs with No.5 Squadron, marking targets for New Zealand pilots in their Corsairs. This was a hazardous task flown at low level with little chance of survival should the aircraft be put out of action by ground fire.

Almost 70 years on and Jack is re-acquainted with a Kittyhawk at the Tyabb Air Show.


KNOX WARBIRDS

Back in May the Knox control line club held a couple of good events at their field in Stud Road. I was unaware of the events and therefore did not attend but Steve Vallve, the Knox secretary, fortunately took a number of pictures and passed them on to me for publication. The main event was an aerobatic competition for stand off scale warbirds which attracted a good entry with many novel approaches to the design and construction of replicas of various full size aircraft of WWII. The standout model was Peter Rowland’s large model of the Avro Lancaster complete with four operating engines and capable of a full aerobatic pattern. Including outside loops! A second event , known as “Pluck-a-Duck”, is a variant of the normal carrier event. In this case, in addition to the usual high speed / low speed laps, the model is required to pick up a duck which has be-come ensnared in netting on a pond. This is probably not quite what the environmentalists envisaged with their duck shooting protests but must have been lots of fun and entertainment for both the flyers and the spectators. Steve’s photos did not extend to this event but I’ll make sure that I’m there next time.

2014

Bell P-39 Airacobra and Curtiss P-75 by Robert Halliwell.

A Hawker Hurricane by Perry McNeally.

Steve Vallve's Seafire.


Ju 87 “Stuka” by Peter Koch.

Peter Rowland’s large model of the Avro Lancaster is fully aerobatic.

Dave Lacey’s profile model of the Focke Wulf 190. Andrew Nugent’s profile P-51 Mustang.


VICSCALE TROPHY

2014

The 2014 Vicscale Trophy was a poorly attended event with only three entries, Noel Findlay winning for the second time with a new DH Fox Moth. The other two events, Large Scale and Flying Only, drew more sup-port however all but four models were ARF’s and scratch built scale models are becoming a rarity these days.

(Photographs by Roger Carrigg and Glen White)

David Law won Large Scale with this very large ARF Decathlon.

Bob Hulett came down from Albury to fly his Stinson Reliant in rarely seen Royal Navy camouflage.

Roly Gaumann with his hard working Polish Wilga.


CONTESTANT MODEL RND 1 RND 2 RND 3 TOTAL

D. LAW DH VAMPIRE 2271 2397 DNF 2334 1

N. WHITEHEAD CT-4 2173 2235 DNF 2204 2

R. GAUMANN WILGA 2089 2217 2133 2175 3

R. HULETT STINSON RELIANT 1865 1654.5 1968 1969 9

D. WHEELER JUNKERS Ju 87 1887 1290 1791 1839 10

G. SUNDERLAND BRISTOL SCOUT 1810 1447.5 DNF 1478 11

D. MALCMAN SPACEWALKER 1268 1422 1425 1423 12

R. POPELIER EXTRA 300 2163 2113.5 2042 2138 4

S. MALCMAN PIPER J3 CUB 1706 2212.5 2028 2120 5

R. CARRIGG STEARMAN 2019 2080.5 2054 2067 6

J. FINOCCHIARO PIPER J3 CUB 2005 2040 2037 2038 7

G. LEPP PIPER J3 CUB 2054 DNF 1925 1989 8

I. LAMONT YAK 54 1865 DNF DNF 932 13


D. LAW DECATHLON 2556 2005 2352 2454 1

M. WERNER SUKHOI Su29 2479 2361 2379 2429 2

A. MOTT CESSNA 182 2109 1905 DNF 2007 4

D. WHEELER YAK 55 2047 1486 1953 2000 5

T. GRIEGER SUPER CUB 1915 1819 2075 1994.5 6

M. ROWAN SUPER CUB 1803 1787 1748 1795 7

S. MALCMAN PIPER J3 CUB 2220 2273 2112 2246.5 3


N. FINDLAY DH FOX MOTH 2028 2468 DNF 4663 1

G. SUNDERLAND PFALTZ D.XII 1788 1656 1382 4005 2

W. WHEELER TURBULENT 1727 1573 1106 3603 3

STATIC

2385

2283

1953

LARGE SCALE RESULTS

FLYING ONLY RESULTS

SCALE RESULTS

Daniel Wheeler’s ARF Stuka was a new model flying in its first competition.

After a disappointing static score at the last World Championship Noel Findlay has built a new DH Fox Moth for this year’s Championship. The new model also has a larger engine, the OS 120FS having been replaced by a OS155 FS.

Noel Whitehead flew his new CT-4 that he will also take to this year’s World Championship.

The CT-4 looking nice and stable on a landing approach.

Some nice detail in and under the enormous canopy on Noel Whitehead’s CT-4.


Wagga warbirds 2014

This event was held over the ANZAC weekend in April. the report is a little late, but I had to get a lot of help from John Rolfe, who was able to obtain photographs from Stuart Dawson and provided other information with the assistance of Peter Goff. My thanks to those people for their effort. This year looks to have been a very successful gathering with good flying conditions and a large entry in all classifications. Most of the entry was from NSW, demonstrating that scale compe-tition is still strong in that state.

D. MURRAY JUNKERS Ju87B 712 216 278 261 1251 1

A. OGLE F4U CORSAIR 622 0 299 317 1238 2

A. WILLIAMS FIESELER 156 STORCH 718 236 264 253 1235 3

STATIC FLT 1 FLT 2 FLT 3 TOTAL WWII

S. HARVEY FOKKER D.VIII 722 291 301 289 1314 1

B. ELLIOT SOPWITH PUP 706 231 279 273 1258 2

C. BRYSON SOPWITH SNIPE 674 276 295 275 1245 3

C. HENRY EMBRAER TUCANO 674 297 312 309 1295 1

G. HARROD DH CHIPMUNK 656 289 305 279 1250 2

P. GOW AT-6 TEXAN 702 269 254 1225 3

P.GOFF AICHI D3A VAL 285 320 317 637 1

A. OGLE FOKKER D.VIII 286 297 304 601 2

P. GOFF HAWKER SEA FURY 285 312 0 597 3

WWI

MILITARY

ARF

C. BRYSON GLOSTER GLADIATOR 748

HIGHEST STATIC

Richard Symes’ Messerschmitt Bf 109.

Japanese Misubishi “Zero”by William Sipma.

Graham Harrod’s DHC “Chipmunk” placed second in Military.

(Photographs by Stuart Dawson)


Ray Clark’s very large Fiat CR.42. Peter Noak’s Fairchild PT-19.

Guy Young’s Douglas DC-3. Stuart Dawson’s Junkers Ju.87 “Stuka”.

Paul McKeown’s Fairy “Swordfish”. Another Japanese aircraft, Peter Goff’s Aichi “Val” placed first in ARF.

Craige Bryson’s Sopwith “Snipe” placed third in WWI. Ray Clark’s Fokker Dr.I triplane.


Ray Clark’s Fiat CR42 on take off.

Alan Danvers’ Sopwith “Pup”. Boyd Elliot flew his Sopwith “Pup” into second place in WWI.

Robert Zyp’s Albatros D.Va. Another Albatros D,Va, this one by James Price.

Simon Harvey’s Fokker D.VII placed first in WWI. Barry James also flew a Fokker D.VII.

Mal Pedan’s DH Tiger Moth in flight.


Craige Bryson’s Gloster “Gladiator” received the highest static score.

Anthony Ogle’s F4-U “Corsair” placed second in WWII.

Chris Henry placed first in Military with his Embraer “Tucano”. Peter Goff’s Hawker “Sea Fury” placed third in ARF.

William Sipma’s “Zero” in flight.

The “Gladiator” in flight.

Richard Symes’P-51 “Mustang”in flight.

Richard Symes’ Me 163 in flight.


We flew the NSW State Championships at West Wyalong on June 7th and 8th. It was a pleasant competition and fair test of the field. There had been rain in the days before and there was some wind, mostly about 2-3 m/s but up to 5 m/s on Sunday afternoon. On Sunday morning, despite the breeze, there was thick fog until 9:30. We waited and started the first round at 10:00. The time between 08:00 and 10:00 was usefully occupied by Terry, Matt and a chainsaw. The field has trees (although one less after Sunday). The wind on the weekend was from the South, which is not the best direction, but it was possible to locate the flight line so that it was clear to fly for a kilometre down wind. No one managed to score a tree. A few flights went into the next property past a tightly strung fence along the North-ern boundary. This was difficult to climb over until Martin went back to town and picked up one of those ladders that convert into two stiles. I was a bit concerned about recovering models from the cropped field in the next property without permission however a fortuitous accidental meeting between Roy and the owner of the field to the North (and the

East and the West) cleared the way for retrieving from these fields. The owner was not at all fussed especially as he now knows that, although the NSW Free Flight Society was reported in the West Wy-along Advocate to have 200 members, free flight competitions here are actually attended by only a couple of dozen somewhat elderly and fairly harmless individuals. The field has been used for sheep and there were still quite a lot in the far corner south of the house. As a result the grass is short – mostly only a few cm with small patches up to 30 cm. The ground is smooth to drive over and good to run on but is a bit bumpy on a bike – a full suspension bike is useful. It’s really nice being only 14km from town.

NSW Free Flight State Championships 2014

at West Wyalong

(Report by Vin Morgan) (Photographs by Malcolm Campbell and Vin Morgan)

F1B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 TOTAL Vin Morgan 180 180 180 180 180 180 180 1260 Terry Bond 180 180 180 180 180 180 179 1259 Ted Burfein 180 178 180 180 180 180 166 1244 Leigh Morgan 180 180 160 130 180 180 167 1177 Donna Gray 166 171 180 176 150 180 110 1133 Matt Hannaford 180 141 147 180 160 140 177 1125

F1A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 TOTAL Malcolm Campbell 180 180 180 180 180 180 180 1260 Vin Morgan 180 180 180 180 180 137 180 1217 Martin Williams 151 180 180 87 180 180 180 1138 Tahn Stowe 180 180 90 127 180 180 180 1117

F1C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 TOTAL Terry Bond 180 180 180 180 180 900 Gary Pope 137 131 145 143 38 28 77 699 Roy Summersby 180 180 180 180 540

Queenslander Albert Fathers circling his F1A model.


Setting up for Saturday’s F1B competition. The grass is short an d the trees are a long way off.

Victorian flyers Leigh and Vin Morgan in F1B. Vin won.

Victorian flyer Martin Williams tows up in the Sunday F1A event.

Current World Champion Roy Summersby launching his folding wing F1C model.

NSW flyer Matt Hannaford retrieves a couple of F1B models.

NSW flyers with Ray Smith (in blue pullover) the CEO of Bland Shire, who visited the field on Saturday.


MID-MAY MUSTER Bairnsdale and District Model Aero Club

Bairnsdale and District Model Aero Club again hosted their annual fun fly in May of this year with the support of many excellent sponsors. While the weather was a bit cool to start, the gentle breeze was almost straight along the runway. This event is a Scale Fun Fly with any model that reasonably resem-bles a full-size aircraft eligible to fly, detail and accuracy are very flexi-ble. With visiting pilots from Latrobe Valley Model Aero Club, Sale and District Aeromodellers Club and South West Amalgamated Model Plane Society twenty seven pilots were registered and 42 aircraft flown. It was a friendly and sociable event, the ladies in the canteen were kept busy and models were in the air all day. Many visitors from the general public came to watch, contributing to the club’s coffers, and appreciated the entertainment afforded through the efforts of the pilots and the performance of their models. If memory serves there were just three casualties on the day, only one causing destruction of the model. AWARDS Judge’s Choice - The World Hobbies sponsored Giant ARF Spitfire went to David Chigwidden for his Fairey Gannet. Pilot’s Choice - The Dyson & Long sponsored Sunglasses went to Ian Waters for his L4 Grasshopper. Best WWII - The Dahlsen's Mitre 10 Sponsored Drill Kit went to Brian Hutchinson for his PBY Catalina. Best WWI - The Toyland Bairnsdale sponsored Charger and Lipo Went to Cameron Dyson for his Albatros D.Va. Best Other Military - The Toyland Bairnsdale sponsored aluminium spinners and APC props went to Charles Hock for his Boeing Stearman Best Civilian - The BADMAC sponsored $50 Toyland voucher went to Ian Waters for his Cessna 182.

Best Scale Take-off - The Four 'n Twenty sponsored $50 Coles Myer Voucher went to David Chippendall with his DH Beaver. Best Scale Landing - The Bunnings sponsored $50 Voucher went to Rex Mitchell with his Sopwith Pup. Hard Luck Award - The Micro Boomerang donated by Dave Faulkner went to Barry James for breaking his DH 82 Tiger Moth. Bunnings Barbeque Raffle: Won by Col Taylor Gate Prize - The World Hobbies sponsored MPX Easy Star RTF went to Barry James. The only way the day could have been better would be if there had been no cloud cover, never-the-less a great day was had by all. Next year’s event should be bigger and better as we will be at our new, permanent home with even clearer airspace and a 200 metre runway. Go to www.statefieldeast.blogspot.com to see the field. Geoff White

The shed nearing completion at the State Field East. BADMAC are the resident club at the field.

Barrie Reaby’s

FOCKE WULF “STÖSSER” The Fw Stosser is a somewhat unusual looking aircraft with a parasol swept wing, a tailplane set high above the fuselage in front of the fin and with mixed metal, plywood and fabric covering. Barrie is building his 2.1m wingspan 1/5 scale model from 1/4 scale plans by Arizona Models which were photocopied down to 1/5. As can be seen from the accompanying photograph, construction is progress-ing well. The single leg, 6.5mm wire, cantilever undercarriage and the 4mm wire wing centre section struts required some careful bending and silver soldering of the heavy wire. Barrie has passed on some useful information on the techniques that he used to carry out this work. Heat Treating Music Wire. The music wire used by modellers to make landing gear and cabin struts is medium carbon steel heat-treated to spring temper of about 45 on the Rockwell ‘C’ scale of hardness (RC45). On this scale, RC20 is soft, RC45 is tough and RC80 is hard. Tough wire can be bent and cut using the proper tools and techniques but sometimes it’s just too difficult to work with. One way to soften steel music wire is to heat it, which makes it easy to bend and form. But after heating and forming, the subsequent cooling — often at an uncontrolled rate — can make the finished wire too hard or too soft since its hardness is determined by the rate at which it cools. For some parts, the final hardness isn’t critical, but a landing gear formed from wire that has been softened too much won’t spring back to its original position; and a gear made from wire cooled to a harder than normal state will snap on its first use. To restore the wire to its original specific spring temper it must be heat treated a second time and cooled at a controlled rate. To form wire easily it must be annealed at the location of the bend. To anneal it , heat the wire with a torch until it becomes a bright cherry red — about 760ºC. Let it cool completely to the touch, don’t quench it or blow on it, just let it cool naturally away from any drafts. The wire should now be in the RC25 soft range and will bend easily. After form-ing, again heat the wire with a torch until it becomes bright cherry red and then quench it i.e. cool it rapidly by immersing it in room tempera-ture water. Plunge the steel into the water with a twisting, swirling motion to keep water vapour from insulating the wire against the cool-ing action of the water. At this point the wire should be very hard, probably above RC60. To test the hardness try to make a mark on the worked area with a file. The file should slide off without cutting into the steel. If it cuts the wire try the heat and quench cycle again.

If the file still cuts the wire it isn’t carbon steel — get another piece of wire and start again. When the file test signals success the wire is ready for the final step. The final step is to temper the wire back to the desired hardness. Tempering is a form of annealing but is controlled so that the steel achieves a specific hardness. Start by polishing the wire with steel wool or emery cloth, then heat it gradually with the torch. Watch for the following colours as a guide: straw colour (180ºC), followed by dark blue (315ºC), and then medium blue (400ºC). At this point re-move the wire from the heat and allow it to cool slowly. Don’t quench it or blow on it, let it cool naturally in still air. Once the steel returns to room temperature it should be at RC45 hardness, which is a good spring temper. Try the file test again, you should be able to make a mark but only with some effort. If it passes this test the wire is properly tempered. Silver Soldering the Cabane Struts.

The three components of each cabane strut are laid out over a section of the plan placed on parti-cle board. Each wire is held in position with wire brads.

Bricks are used to prevent heat loss.

Most of the paper drawing is removed to minimise flames. Burning of the particle board can be reduced by cutting holes in the board where joints are to be silver soldered.

Finished struts with mounting tabs attached.


Focke Wulf Fw 56

“Stösser” The Focke-Wulf Fw 56 Stösser (Falcon) was an advanced training aircraft that was used at German fighter pilot schools throughout World War. II The Fw 56 was designed during 1933 in response to an Air Ministry requirement for an advanced trainer. It was a parasol wing monoplane with a fixed undercarriage, and built around a steel-tube fuselage with metal and fabric covering. The first prototype made its maiden flight in November 1933. It had a wing built with a wooden structure and cov-ered with plywood and fabric. Tests revealed problems with the under-carriage, and so the landing gear was replaced on V2, the second prototype. This also had an all-metal wing. V3 followed in February 1934, with the original wooden wing and a modified undercarriage. The prototypes were followed by three A-0 series pre-production se-ries, two armed with two 7.92mm machine guns and three 22lb prac-tices bombs while the third carried a single gun. In the summer of 1935 the Fw 56 competed against the Arado Ar 76 and Heinkel He 74 to win a production contract as a home defence fighter and advanced trainer. The Fw 56 won the competition, and was ordered into production in the advanced trainer role. During 1935 the Fw 56 was also used by Ernst Udet to test out dive bombing. It was a sturdy aircraft with clean lines that gave it a high diving speed and allowed it to survive the pull-out. Udet had seen a demonstration of dive bombing by a Curtiss Helldiver in the United States, and carried out the 1935 tests with the Fw 56 in person.

In the next year, as head of the RLM's technical department, Udet was able to put his support for the dive-bomber into practice. Between 1934 and 1940 around 1,000 Fw 56A-1a were produced, able to carry one or two 7.9mm machine guns. The aircraft was used at the Luftwaffe's fighter-pilot training schools through the Second World War, as well as serving in the Austrian and Hungarian Air Forc-es and for experiments in towing gliders and to help develop the idea of the 'piggy back' mistal concept, acting as the upper part of a Fw 56/ DFS 230 combination.

Engine: Argus As 10C Series III eight-cylinder inverted-Vee air-cooled engine Power: 240hp Crew: one Wing span: 34ft 7in Length: 25ft 1in Height: 8ft 4in Empty Weight: 1,477lb Loaded Weight: 2,171lb Max Speed: 166mph at sea level Cruising Speed: 152mph at sea level Service Ceiling: 20,340ft Climb rate: 1,650ft/ minute Armament: Two 7.9mm MG 17 machine guns Bomb-load: Three 22lb bombs



Western Australia prepare for the

2016 World Control Line Championships

The WA State Field at Whiteman Park is undergoing some major work in preparation for the 2016 World Control Line Championships. Whiteman Park is located only a 22min. drive from the centre of Perth and the model field is one of a number of sport and entertain-ment facilities on this 10,000 acre site. As can be seen from the photographs, a new concrete circle is al-ready completed and work is progressing on another two bitumen circles at the runway intersections. My thanks to Steve Brown of Altitude Imaging Pty. Ltd. for allowing the use of his photographs.

The new bitumen surfaced circles under construction at the intersections of the r/c runways.

This newly completed, concrete surfaced, circle will be used for speed and team racing.


Allan Beggs is an ex-Victorian now living in Townsville. A former mem-ber of the Latrobe Valley club, Alan flew in scale competitions at Lilydale in the 1970’s and 80’s and may be remembered by other mod-ellers of that era. In recent years Alan has left the r/c scene, returning to his early model-ling days of control line flying, and now flies Vintage and Classic stunt with a small group of fellow FNQ control liners. Allan’s model of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CA-28 “Ceres” is 1.88m wingspan and powered by a Magnum 91 four stroke engine. First flown in 2008, the Ceres flew well but rarely and after only ten flights it now sits in the shed waiting to take to the air again.

Allan Beggs’

CA-28 “CERES”

CA-28 ”CERES” three view. This is the later model with an extended cockpit for a second, rearward facing, seat.

“CERES” VH-CEC on a test flight over Williamstown, Melbourne.


The NSW free flighters are fortunate to have access to a large mown grass field near the RAAF Base Richmond. I have flown there before, during National Championships over the years, but this was my first experience of the free flight version of the Trans-Tasman Trophy. Every second year a team from Kiwiland fly over with their scale mod-els to take on an equal number of Aussies in a flying scale contest. Free flight, no radios, with points for take off, climb out, glide and (possibly) landing, with static judging of outlines, finish and detail to follow. These Trans-Tasman flights take part within a normal free flight scale contest using the same rules and scoring, so everyone can have fun and a chance of winning something. In New Zealand and Southern Australia the winter frontal systems were generating winds but near Sydney, in early July, it tends to be calm and sunny. This proved to be the situation again this year, with virtually no wind in the early mornings, a slight breeze after 10am and a light wind setting in by lunchtime. This allowed enough time for most pilots to complete at least one qualifying flight. A great improvement this year was to have the owner provide a large area of cleared flat earth available for R.O.G (rise off ground) take offs. The usual short mown grass at Windsor can be a problem for many models (particularly mine!) but the hard earth surface was as good as the best runway at any R/C field. The R.O.G was an im-portant part of traditional free flight scale flying that is now being lost at National and State Championships and it is great to see that the art and science is being preserved by the NSW enthusiasts, with a little help from New Zealand. Using a R/C site for an early morning F/F scale contest is surely possible at some Nationals. I have personal-ly flown F/F from the Twin Cities field, although the presence of a busy road on one side and a field of bulls on the other does take some care as to when and where to launch. The individual winner of the F4A event was Phil Mitchell of NSW with his old and reliable DH.82 Tiger Moth.

RICHMOND SCALE RALLY and

F4A TRANS TASMAN CHALLENGE

An accurately built and detailed “Tiger” in trainer yellow colours, the model performed a smooth take off followed by a steady climb and glide to take the top spot. The Trans-Tasman is also flown to the F4A free flight rules and is similar to the F4C radio control scale contest in being a team event for three flyers per country. As a consequence the individual scores are less important than having all three placing well. If one pilot has a problem, or some bad luck, then that team will be unlikely to recov-er. The Kiwis got off to a good start with their two Auster models per-forming good take offs and steady flights. Gary Odgers elected not to fly his new Albatros, which was now complete but not yet finally trimmed. His reserve model put in a nice R.O.G and a steady flight, matching the New Zealanders. Meanwhile Roy Summersby was flying his new Sopwith Swallow and elected to hand launch it, fore-going take off points. Likewise my BE.12 proved too big and heavy to R.O.G. and had to be hand launched. Everything now depended on the third Kiwi entrant who was hand launching a very nice model of a Douglas Dauntless WWII dive bomber. This was ‘gear retracted’ of course, hence the hand launch, but a good flight could put the NZ team ahead in flight points. After several attempts the Dauntless was in the air but began to behave strangely as one of the wings began to work loose. Eventually the wing separated completely at some height and the remains per-formed a spectacular vertical dive. A sad loss to a keen competitor and to the NZ team. We all felt the loss of a very nice model and all of the Australian team would have preferred to win, or lose, in happier circumstances and through skill rather than bad luck. However we all crash models from time to time and it is a part of the hobby that we have to accept. The evening dinner and presentation went well and we were able to discuss many things. The New Zealanders have vowed to return again in two years time and continue the tradition of free flight scale flying competition. Gary Sunderland

Tahn Stowe with his Hawker Hurricane. The model is powered by a 1950’s vintage ED 3.49cc diesel engine.

(Photographs by Gary Sunderland)


George Fay of New Zealand with his Douglas Dauntless. Roy Summersby presenting his winning rubber powered Focke Wulf TA-152 to the static judges.

Comprehensive detailing on Gary Odgers’ Albatros. Gary intends taking this model to the British National Championships.

Roy Summersby flew this Sopwith Swallow in F4A. A monoplane version of the Camel, the Swallow was a 1918 prototype.

Gary Odgers’ Albatros C.III is now completed and ready for England. Gary flew a spare model in the Trans Tasman but made a few test flights with the Albatros.


FOR SALE

OS Sirius FR5-300

50cc 5-cylinder radial engine with Microsens 5 glo-driver

and balancer. 10 min. bench running only.

$1800

OS Gemini FT-300

50cc twin cylinder engine. NIB

$900

Interested parties should contact -

Graeme Goodson

Mob: 0433956611

RICHMOND SCALE RALLY and

F4A TRANS TASMAN CHALLENGE

RESULTS F4A and Trans Tasman Challenge P. Mitchell DH.82 Tiger Moth 1453.6 R. Bould (NZ) Auster AOP-9 1385.7 G. Sunderland (AUS) Taube 1349.5 G. Odgers (AUS) Gloster Gannet 1319.4 R. Summersby (AUS) FE.8 1302.6 S. Maugher (NZ) Auster C-4 1277.0 R. Craine DH.606 1017.5 G. Fay (NZ) Douglas Dauntless 919.5 David Hope-Cross Trophy Australia 3971.5 New Zealand 3582.2 Rubber Scale P. Warren Comper Swift 1339.6 R. Summersby Focke Wulf TA.152 1149.0 Peoples Choice R. Craine DH 606 Spectacular Arrival G. Fay Douglas Dauntless Next Time Tahn Stowe Piero Magni 3/1

Tahn Stowe flew this 1930’s Italian Piero Magni 3/1 sport plane in F4A. A very fast model (just like the original?).

Stan Maugher (left) with an Auster C-4 and Ricky Bould (right) with his Auster AOP-9, both from New Zealand.

I have reported on the last couple of Ringmaster Fly-A-Thons but this year, after receiving the adja-cent flyer from the US organisers, I have decid-ed to get a little more involved. For those not familiar with the “Ringmaster” it was first produced in 1950 by the US company “Sterling Models” and has since been reproduced in many different forms and sizes. The accompanying draw-ing is taken from the origi-nal kit drawing for the 42”wingspan S1 version. The outlines and general construction follow the original, the only change being the method of con-struction for the wing.


VICSCALE Victorian Flying Scale Aircraft

Association The Special Interest Group

for Scale Modelling in Victoria.

General Meetings of the Association are held bi-monthly on the first Thursday of the even months at the Field Naturalist Club of Victoria, 1 Gardenia Street, Blackburn. Visitors are always welcome and a highlight of meetings is the presenta-tion of new models as they are constructed, and discussion on building techniques by members.

The VFSAA Calendar of events is available on the VFSAA website at http://vfsaa.org.au/

A Bit of Nostalgia Many of our older flyers are keen on maintaining interest in modelling memorabilia and collect old models, kits and plans. John Moody in Tasmania has already reproduced a number of old Australian model plans and made them available on vari‐ous web sites. He is presently collabora ng with Steve Be s to reproduce kit box artwork of Australian manufacturers and writes‐ “Here is a sample of Steve Be s’ kit box artwork restora on. Steve and I are a er as many old kit box artworks as we can get for restora on and display. We already have the Aeroflyte Taipan, Cougar, Humbug and Vulcan.

If you could spread the word at your convenience and ask if any old Aussie kit boxes, mainly AeroFlyte (R/C, C/L, F/F), could be scanned at a resolu on of 600 dpi. Any A4 scanner can do the job. Just scan three mes – le , middle and right with good overlap on each scan. If artwork is on the sides and ends then these should be scanned as well. Steve will straighten and join, then restore them. It doesn’t ma er what condi on they are in — up to a point.” If you are able to assist in any way John can be contacted at ‐[email protected]


MODEL AIRCRAFT CLUB OF SUNBURY INC.

PO BOX 271 SUNBURY 3429 www.macsunbury.asn.au

Annual Auction October 11th 2014

We plan to do it all again in October.

Come along and make it our biggest auction yet! Who knows, there might be something worth buying!

Time for a change – sell the old, buy another pre-loved treasure. Everything must go.

The auction is scheduled to start around 12:00 pm, but we will be registering goods for sale from 10:00 am.

DOOR PRIZES -- RAFFLE

$2 entry fee

Hot dogs and refreshments will be available from 10:00 am.

St. Andrews Uniting Church Hall Barkly Street, Sunbury (Melway 382 E4)

Enquiries: John Sutherland 03 9338 4563

Bruce Palamountain 03 5428 7492


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