RCM&E

Catering for all aspects of R/C flying, Radio Control Models and Electronics first appeared in May 1960 and is the biggest and best selling monthly model flying magazine in the United Kingdom with a large overseas readership. RCM&E has brought benchmark levels of writing and photography to the hobby and each issue has extensive reviews, informative features and opinionated columns from a number of well-known contributors.

Welcome

SWITCH ON • Our latest round up of model flying news and miscellany

ALL ELECTRIC AT BASINGSTOKE • Mike Freeman celebrates two decades of the All Electric Fly-In at Basingstoke Model Aero Club

40 YEAR FLASH BACK • Encouraged by the response to his last column Shaun Garrity has another go at time travel, this time visiting the 1980s

F-35 LIGHTNING II • Harry Curzon assembles XFly-Model’s quick build EDF version of Lockheed Martin’s stealthy multirole strike fighter

All Write • Have your say in RCM&E’s monthly chat room

KING OF THE CATS • Join Stuart Mackay as he takes a close look at a twin warbird which is well known on the large model show circuit

Pilots’ Pictorial • Get your planes in print! Get in touch… kevin.crozier@kelsey.co.uk

INTERNATIONAL MODEL GLIDER FAIR • Thorsten Häs reports from the ‘Segelflugmesse 2025’ held in Schwabmünchen, southern Germany

MITE EP • Shaun Garrity modernises an early 1970s low wing sport aerobatic design for electric power and separate wing servos

OL’ ORANGE TRASH • With the arrival of Seagull’s new ARTF David Ashby grabs the opportunity to fly a classic aerobat

AN ILLUSTRATOR’S PERSPECTIVE • Where would RCM&E be without professionally drawn plans and illustrations? For over three decades we have relied on Grahame Chambers to supply top quality drawings. Here’s a brief history of his ‘sketchy’ past

SHRINKING NUTBALLS • John Stennard builds a micro version of a favourite indoor model and decorates it with a new brand of marker pen

POWER & PLAYTIME • This time Dave Goodenough boils an engine, reveals some foam mega models and attends his local scale slope soaring competition

ON SLICKS • Kevin Crozier dips into a large box containing a dazzling Pilot-RC aerobatic model

Going Places • Diary dates for the coming season

Marketplace • Sell off your unwanted airframes and engines or maybe buy a few new ones

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