MODEL AEROPLANE NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 96, 24 April 1931, Page 15 (Supplement)

MODEL AEROPLANE NOTES.

THE GIPSY MOTH 11. (By PROPELLER.) This week I am giving you some more details of the Gipsy Moth. The landing carriage arrangement is shown clearly. To see how the shock absorbing devices work it will be better for you to study a real machine. The arrangement of the landing gear will give ample scope for using your own ideas 011 your model. The wheels may be made of Balsa wood or three-ply. A

The Landing Gear. suggestion for modelling the pneumatic tyres is to take a piece of thin rubber hose the length of the circumference of the wheel and split it down one side. Be %ure to use a sharp knife or razor blade, and keep dipping it in water. This ensures a clean cut. Slip the cut edge over the wheel and finish by sticking tho ends with rubber solution. This makes a very realistic model of an aeroplane wheel. In the sketch showing the control cockpit the position of the seat and the "joy etick" is clearly given. The foot bar for the rudder control works just like an ordinary trolley. The wires A and B are crossed on their way to the elevator.

Interior of Control Cockpit. Always bear in mind that you want a flying model as well as a scale model, and that your success ill duration of flight will greatly depend on the lightness of your model as well as the correctness of deta! .

. | Emphcnnage: The Tail Assembly. 1 j Quite a number of entrants for the competition have made a start on their * models, and, I hear of "hush-hush" ' machines being built all over the town. I Some of the secrets have been disclosed i to me, but I must keep a discreet • silence as to details. When the machines I are finally shown it will be a surprise

to a great number of folks to see the painstaking care than has been put into the work. Well, boys, you have quite a while yet in which to finish your model, the closing date being Saturday, May 9, as mentioned in this column la-st week. The place of judging w:il be announced in next week's isauc. If any reader is m difficulties or up against a problem in connection with this model, write me, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, and 1 will be happy to help you. CLUB NOTES. Oiiehuiiga Branch. —The Onehunga boys, though small in number, make up for it in keenness. Tlicy hold their regular meetings, aim continue to improve their Hying. Christchurch. —This club is very enthusiastic, and has made its rules on similar lines to ■iucTdand Club. We hope to have some records broken in Christchurch shortly. Auckland. —The New Zealand Model Aero and Gliding Club continues to forge ahead. Numbers of new members are enlisting and seven squadrons arc now filled up. Can you form a squadron in your distiiet?