Articles

Super capacitor powered foam Lysander by Paul Burling – posted Oct 2023
Click here for Pauls article

Playing with Arduino by Mark Saunders – posted Feb 2022
Click here for Marks article

“Duct” – a ducted fan home brew adventure by Mark Saunders – posted Jan 2022
Click here for Marks story

Building the P51D Mustang from the SFM kit by David Stopher – posted Jan 2021
Click here for Davids build report

Fabricating Coiled Wire Undercarriages by Mark Saunders – posted April 2020
Click here for Marks guide

Moulding Canopies by Mark Saunders – posted March 2020
Click here for Marks useful guide

Marshall of Cambridge – The “Accidental” C130 Hercules Service Centre – posted Feb 2020
Click here for a paper produced by club member Alan Paul for the RAF Historical Society in October 2019

Moulding Balsa Fuselages by Roger Simmonds – posted March 2018
Roger gave a very interesting talk at the Public Open Day on 18th March 2018 and kindly allowed us to publish his work.  Click here for the article and here for accompanying Diagram 1 and Diagram 2
Also see Rogers website at www.jetex.org

Stuart Jessups 3D Printed powered glider – posted Jan 2018
Stuart writes about his experiences with his 3D printer here

Mark Saunders home brew Foam Cutter project – posted Dec 2017
Mark designed and made his own foam cutter. Download the details here

Richard Crossley’s guide to airbrushing – posted Mar 28 2017
Taken from Richard’s talk at the Spring Public Day – download

Richard Crossley’s guide to carving pilots and crew – posted Mar 28 2017
Following Richard’s talk at the Spring Public Day and with permission of the Aeromodeller
download part 1 download part 2

An important lesson learnt – posted by Bryan Gostlow Jan 12 2017
When the prototype Boeing 299 bomber crashed on August 30 1935 many people concluded that it was simply too complex to fly – download

Building a simple Torque Indicator
A design for a quick and easy Torque Indicator can be downloaded here

Automating a winder
Design notes can be downloaded here