Mailplane review 2012 full#
Mailplane review 2012 software#

Mailplane review 2012 software#

There's a very high likelihood that he could get the plans printed out himself in France (Staples SEEMS to have stores in France, no kidding), after I use my suite of installed graphic software (like Corel Graphics Suite 12, DesignCAD 3DMax v.17, FinePrint Software's pdfFactory, etc.) to help him get the construction article and plans ready to send over for him, to get them printed out on his end. Since I'm fairly certain that these plans might no longer even BE available (or am I wrong about that?) I'm hoping that someone who might just have a copy of the March 1981 Model Builder magazine, and also have access to a flatbed scanner, might be able to scan that article in a decently HIGH resolution (like 600 DPI) so that I could help Jean-Paul out in having a set of those plans.

Mailplane review 2012 full#

a French aeromodeler named Jean-Paul is looking for someone to help him get a copy of the plans for my old RC buddy Hank Iltzsch's one third scale Dormoy Bathtub, and from an online listing elsewhere on the Internet, I found that the construction article for it, and the reduced-size FULL PLANS for it, were in the March 1981 issue of Bill Northrop's Model Builder magazine, now long-out-of-print. The PIPE Here again after a bit of an 'absence'. It would be nice to find plans of the Silver Tern exist somewhere, but it might be that this model was a 'one off' built by RFLG, maybe even specially for the exhibition, it certainly sported an 'exhibition finish, in which case plans may never have been published.ĭear Fellow 'Vintage & Old-Timer Plans' RC-Groupers: The other visual difference is that the Nordic Tern has small endplates on the tailplane. The other photo showing RFLG holding the Silver Tern at the 1950 Northern Models Exhibition where it has just won it's class seems to show a streamlined (crutch built?) fuselage whereas the Nordic Tern has a basically slab-sided structure with added decking. In reducing the model to A/2 area, it would probably have been necessary to change the fuselage in order that the smaller model would comply with the then required minimum fuselage cross section. It is possible that this model was a reworking of the Silver Tern to comply with the A/2 glider specification, probably by reducing the size - certainly in the photo showing the Silver Tern being examined by the two cadets the model looks to be bigger than A/2 size.

However, looking at the model, I think it is very close in outline, certainly of the flying surfaces, to the 'Nordic Tern' plans for which were published in the 'Aeromodeller' in April 1950 and are still available (see for a picture of a nice example of this - and a few other very nice vintage sailplanes). I haven't been able to track down any further info on the 'Silver Tern' beyond the photos I put on the thread. most especially 3-views or plans.ĭo any of you chaps have a 'lead' for me? Way back at the beginning of the 'Gosling' thread, there is a picture of a model called Silver Tern.