Tony Oliver
Jul 09, 2004, 06:07 PM
Yesterday I visited a bookshop a few miles from where I live. It has an aviation section and in it was yet another old-time modelling book to add to the collection.
This one is 'The Design and Construction of Flying Model Aircraft' by DA Russell. Those who go back that far will know him as an early editor of Aeromodeller Magazine here in the UK.
The book is a later version (1943) of an original 1937 book. It's even older than me.
It's full of good quality photographs, graphs and diagrams, but no plans unfortunately. 250 pages of fascinating reading, much of which applies today.
Plenty of Col. Bowden's models and engines which are almost forgotten now.
Multi-propped models driven from one rubber motor. Freeflight scale models of enormous proportions - 1/5 scale Lysander for example - powered by very large sparkers.
If you get the chance to read any of the early books on aeromodelling it's a revelation. Apart from technology of radio and materials, there's not much which happens now which is wholly 'new'
Tony
This one is 'The Design and Construction of Flying Model Aircraft' by DA Russell. Those who go back that far will know him as an early editor of Aeromodeller Magazine here in the UK.
The book is a later version (1943) of an original 1937 book. It's even older than me.
It's full of good quality photographs, graphs and diagrams, but no plans unfortunately. 250 pages of fascinating reading, much of which applies today.
Plenty of Col. Bowden's models and engines which are almost forgotten now.
Multi-propped models driven from one rubber motor. Freeflight scale models of enormous proportions - 1/5 scale Lysander for example - powered by very large sparkers.
If you get the chance to read any of the early books on aeromodelling it's a revelation. Apart from technology of radio and materials, there's not much which happens now which is wholly 'new'
Tony