Eagle Book of Model Aircraft is a book dedicated to showing you in great detail how to build
7 model Aircraft. Some are propeller driven, others powered by Jetex model jet motors.
The top of the range models even have compression ignition motors.
Original Price : Unknown
Published by : Hulton Press in 1959
Edited by : Ray Malmström
Dimensions : 20cm x 26cm with 64 pages.
Selected highlights:
- Watch your fingers when firing up the compression ignition motors !
- Build your own semi-scale atom bomber
- The photopages show a wide range of other models, including a WW1 S.E.5.A fighter biplane
- Get dizzy learning how to fly control-line models round in circles
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chapter 1 | AN INTRODUCTION TO AEROMODELLING | Page 4 |
| 2 | A GUIDE TO WHAT YOU WILL NEED | 6 |
| 3 | ABOUT GLIDERS | 8 |
| 4 | THE AIRFLO GLIDER | 10 |
| 5 | RUBBER-POWERED MODELS | 14 |
| 6 | THE STARCREST | 16 |
| 7 | THE E.P.9 | 20 |
| PHOTOPAGES | 26, 27 | |
| 8 | JET MODELS | 28 |
| 9 | EXCALIBUR | 30 |
| 10 | POWERED MODEL AIRCRAFT | 34 |
| PHOTOPAGE | 37 | |
| 11 | THE SKYGYPSY | 38 |
| 12 | FLYING IN CIRCLES | 47 |
| 13 | THE GEE-BEE SPORTSTER | 50 |
| 14 | TEAM-RACING | 54 |
| THE HALL RACER | 56 | |
| 15 | FLYING THRILLS AHEAD | 63 |