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If aircraft had Family Tree
diagrams, the Gloster Gamecock
would be traced immediately back
to the WW1-era SE5a., but with
the flamboyant RAF squadron
colour schemes of the between-
the-wars period. Gordon
Whitehead’s 1/6th scale model is
our major construction feature in
this issue
JULY 2018 NO.224
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gloster gamecock
1/6th scale 59.6” (1512mm) wingspan model of one of the Royal
Air Force's earlier post WW-1 fighter aircraft, designed by
GORDON WHITEHEAD.
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dummy engine for the gamecock
1:12 scale three-view and close-up photo detail
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gloster gamecock TYPE HISTORY
An SE5a on steroids! his pugnacious looking little biplane
fighter epitomised the ‘best flying club in the World’ that was
the Royal Air Force of the 1920s and early 1930s
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gamecock flying colours
Hardly warpaint! Colour schemes carried by the Gamecock
equipped squadrons, during the RAF’s most flambouyant
period
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gamecock IN DETAIL
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Kz III Laerke (lark)
1:40 scale three-view
Close-up photo study of the painstakingly accurate replica at
the Jet Age Museum, Gloucester
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subjects for scale:
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scale soaring
Try rubber power free flight scale with this 19.5 inch span
model of the Danish light aircraft
Chris Williams describes his revised wing construction for two-
piece gull wings
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cesna c-165 airmaster
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An 18" span 'micro' model for electric power and three function
control. Designed by Peter Rake, with the prototype model built
by Phillip Artweger
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globe swift scale draWING
Corrected1:30 Scale three-view
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GLOBE SWIFT COLOUR SCHEMES
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We ran out of space last month, so here are a selection of
liveries applied to Swifts over the years since it first appeared
in 1945
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n this year which commemorates the
formation of the Royal Air Force in
April 1918, it is worth noting that in the
two decades that followed, this the
Wold’s first independent military Air
Arm was reduced to a shadow of its 1918
presence, defending its survival against the
objections to its very existence by Army
and Navy. But the effective use of RAF
Squadrons to maintain ‘Imperial Order’ in
the Middle East helped to fend off total
emasculation, together with the carefully
orchestrated Air Shows and Air Pageants
over home skies where fighter aircraft decked in their colourful and
prominent individual identification schemes provided aerobatic
performances intended to keep the R.A.F in the public eye.
With little else to do in a world where external military threat seemed
minimal and remote, our Air Force was, in many respects “The Best
Flying Club In The World” for the elite, lucky enough to participate,
riding their colourful fighter biplanes.
One of these aircraft that seems to have received scant attention for a
long time now, is the mid-1920s Gloster Gamecock, the last significant
model of which we’ve seen dates back to the mid-1970s, when Gordon
Whitehead first published his 1/6th scale model of the type. So Gordon
gave us permission to re-publish his design, which is presented as our
major construction feature in this issue.
Of fighter aircraft types of that period, there are quite a number for
which there are no surviving genuine examples, and the Gloster
Gamecock is one (assuming you discount the fuselage hulk surviving in
Finland). But skill and determination has produced a first class replica,
using original works drawings, and it resides at the
Jet Age Museum
in
Gloucester where it can be seen at weekends. Entry there is free and
well worth a visit.
GLOBE SWIFT - WHAT SCALE?
The brain in either my calculator - or alternatively its driver (me) must
have suffered serious brain-fade, while working out the scale of the
Globe Swift three-view in last month’s issue. Rather than the 1:30 scale
intended, it’s something like 1:34.868-to-infinity! It only came to light
when organising an enlargement to quarter scale, so we’ve presented it
again at the correct scale on pages 54-55 in this month’s issue.
Also included is the range of colour schemes carried by individual
Swifts that was squeezed out of June issue when we ran out of pages.
GUILD OF AVIATION ARTISTS ANNUAL EXHIBITION
One of the most enjoyable aviation orientated events that the job of
Editor takes me to each year is the Guild of Aviation Artists’
“Aviation
Painting of the Year”
show, which takes place this year
July 9th - 15th, as previously at The Mall Galleries, near
Admiralty Arch, St. James’, London SW1A 2BN.
Building model aircraft is an acquired skill; drawing or
painting pictures of aviation scenes really is something
else and GAVA’s annual event draws together the very
best of the best. This year there will be
388 original works of art on display from 122 different
artists, at the Guild’s 48th Open Annual Exhibition This is
the premier event (the largest of its kind in the world) for
wholly original works of aviation art, each the result of
meticulous observation or careful research of aircraft, events,
personalities and historical achievements blended with artistic skills in
land, sea and skyscapes.
As this year is the centenary year of the
RAF, expect to see more iconic
representations of both well-known and
not so well known RAF subjects.
All eras of aviation will be represented,
from the earliest hot air balloons through
to current airliners and combat aircraft
from the world’s air forces.
The Exhibition will be open to the
public from July 10th to 15th.
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