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HANGAR DOORS - Aeromodeller's news from here and there, what's on, where and when...
PHOTO PRIZE - Fliar Phil sorts out his post to bring you the best of the aero-pix this month
EUROPEAN CONTROL LINE CHAMPIONSHIPS - A full report on this highly successful event held at Three Sisters Chester
VINTAGE CORNER - Alex Imrie casts his net-and catches those modern glimpses of the past...
BOOK REVIEWS - Aeromodeller takes time off to read a few books about full-size flying machines
SCALE TWINS - Rubber powered twins need not be such a chancy experience once you have read Charles Newman's hints on how and why
CONTROL LINE PICTORIAL - Drawings and sketches to help you improve the control systems of you next model - by Ian Peacock
OHKA MXY-7 - Full-size plans for this novel semi-scale control line model by Jym and Dave Leddy
CAUDRON & FARMAN 400 - Two full-size plans for rubber powered 'peanuts' from the pen of that rernarkable Frenchman Emmanuel Fillon (FULL SIZE PLAN - also see additional images above)
SCALE MATTERS - The free flight scale scene as observed by Bill Dennis
AEROMODELLING TECHNOLOGY - Readers'ideas, hints, tips and notes shared with you for your enlightenment
FREE FLIGHT SCENE - Dave Hipperson brings you the latest contest news and explains how to stop your motors - fast. Plus drawings for Ian Davitt's winning C d'H model
ADVERSE YAW - Ron Moulton looks back and sideways on things aeronautical
FROM THE HANDLE - Control line views and news from Claus Maikis and Jim Woodside
JETEX MOTORS - A look back at that popular power source of yesteryear by Ken Brothwell
MIND THE LINES - Andy Brough reports on the rotating vintage scene around the country
AT THE LAUNCH PAD - Scale model rockets are looked on asJhe star of this class of model. John Wheddon brings you three possible subjects...
Cover: One of the best European spacemodellers is Van Kutuha from Czechoslovakia, seen here with his superscale model of the Saturn V. Model is powered by two 40 Ns engines, weight is 495 grams and scale is 1/100.
The full size plan from this issue is
also available as a separate item:
THE YOKOSUKA MXY-7 'Ohka' (Cherry Blossom) was designed by the Japanese during World War II as a piloted missile intended for suicide attack. The mark II on which our model is based made its first powered flight in November 1944 and its first operational use was on 21st March 1945.
The first section contained a war head of 2645 Ibs of high explosive. The second section contained the cockpit which was equipped with only very basic controls and instrumentation and the third section contained three solid propellant rockets. The 'Ohka' was carried to its area of operation by a specially adapted GM42 'Betty' twin engined medium bomber. Once released the 'Ohka' would glide to the target and when in a dive it would accelerate to over 500 mph by firing the rockets. Our model is not quite so fast but still has a handy turn of speed with a good 1.5cc motor on 35ft lines.
