Aircraft Workshop – Learn to Make Models that Fly

The key to the book is the extraordinary thoroughness of its scope and content, from the step-by-step instructions to the detailed scaled plans and illustrations. Even the summary of contents is five A4 pages long showing at-a-glance what there is to learn and how to get additional information and practice! The book covers your first flying model, what materials and tools are needed, marking and cutting, designing your own plane, construction drawing, enlarging plans and building models. It explains the simple rules of flight, building a glider with control surfaces, building a progressive trainer, choosing radio control, how to handle your first flight, preflight checks, flight debriefing, adding an engine, engine management, engine tuning, powered flight and adding wheels. Flying instructions include taxiing, takeoff, landing, basic flight maneuvers, turning, the figure of eight, flying in a wind, dead stick landing, loop and roll. Modeling techniques covered include working with polystyrene, molding in fiberglass, vacuum forming, finishing and fitting out, installing large engines, registration of plans and much, much more. Contents: Designing your first Chuckie; Glider with control surfaces; Piper J-3 Cub building exercise; Joining a club; Building a Micro a progressive trainer; Choosing a radio; Radio control and first flight; Adding and managing the engine; Adding wheels; Adding a camera; Looking at and modelling full-size aircraft; Building a sports-scale plane; Building a 1/4 scale DH71; Sport kit to Schneider racer; Building a 60: Hawker Sea Fury; Researching and building a 1/5 scale Spitfire F.XIVE; Where to from here: Summary of Contents.