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REGULARS:
Best in Scale - We report from the Liverpool club's memorial scale event; more on wing rib tapes, and the 2005 Traplet Unlimited scale season is unveiled
Aerodynamic Forum - What a Drag! Alasdair Sutherland considers the implications of giving up his hobby! And answers some reader's 'wing' questions
The Sports Channel - Model thoughts on those 'Zany Afternoons', the rapidly-growing indoor flying scene, and your answers for the translation of 'Zaunkonig'!
Powerhouse - Pre-season info for your current model and some thoughts on how to get the best engine installation for your next
Charged Flying - Essential Pre-Flight Preparation and a few new useful bits
Soarer's Slot - This month we look at a new EPP racer, how to clean a servo pot and a powerful 'mini' receiver
Flying Stuff - This month we consider whether dihedral is necessary for rudder/elevator control, and there’s the final, final word on downwind turns!
Rotary Wings - This month Richard takes a more in-depth look at rotor blades
Bright Ideas - Hints & Tips, with prizes to boot!
Pre-Flight - Musings from the Editor...
Light Flight - Mixing and matching fans motors and models, more on the interesting Micro-Zagi development, and further details on the Breeze Block
Take Off - What's going on in the modelling world...
SERVICES:
Shop Window - What's NEW for YOU
Coming Next Issue - What's coming up in the May issue of RCMW
Classified Adverts - The biggest FREE 'For Sale' section around
Shopper's Directory - Where to find your modelling needs
PRODUCT REVIEWS:
Wailing' Good Time! - Dave Rumball puts the Cermark Banchee E3D through its paces
A Better Mousetrap? - A 3-D fun-fly model used as a trainer! Taking a different approach we look at Weston UK's Cougar 2000 for the job
Big Red - We take a close look at a semi scale ARTF model from Seagull Models, the Decathlon
FEATURES:
Tempest MK V - A photo feature of David Wigley's Hawker Tempest which featured at the 2004 Top Gun event
DH98 Mosquito B.Mk.IV - A semi-scale twin electric-powered WWII fighterbomber for 600BB motors featuring retracting under carriage and flaps designed by Robin Fowler
Inflammatory Articles - Nick Reffold looks more closely into safety and managing Nickel based batteries
Receiver Aerial Orientation - Dave Armitage explains the theory of long servo leads and inducing interference through aerial wires
Model Makeover - Alasdair Sutherland transforms a reluctant performer by the application of some general principles...
Nose Leg - A D1Y project to make a sprung nose leg for a trike undercarriage
Getting Connected - How to make adjustable connectors for mini and micro servers.
FLIGHT LINES:
Diary Dates - What's on and where
AMA Convention - Eloy Marez reports on the annual convention held in Smiilii'in < ulilmnia which heralds the start of the new season
Roodee 2004 - The informal all electric meeting where people fly for fun dedicated to the late Charles Filtness one of the founders
FULL SIZE PLANS:
3-Dicer - A 34" span Depron electric 3-D spoils aerobatic model designed by Mike White
Mini-E-Cutlass - Our second Free Plan this month is a simple all-sheet construction 'pusher' design, once again courtesy of Mike White
