My introduction to the Acro-Wot was around twenty-two years ago, when the club was flying from inside Kirkistown race circuit. Pinned to the wall of our club hut was the lid of the box that the Acrowot came in and I thought it was a great looking plane and still do even twenty seven years after it was first kitted with its white/yellow colour with red and orange trim and having been designed by Chris Foss you were guaranteed a plane that was going to be a joy to fly. I would be surprised if there was a club in the UK that did not have at least one Acro-Wot flown at one time or another, in fact in our club, Pete, Richard, Michael, Patrick, George, Steven and Peter are some of the members who own (or have owned – ouch!) at least one.

Here's a very effective cleaner for your badly stained engines & exhausts.

THE FALL AND RISE OF THE SIG FOUR STAR 60

I loved flying my Sig Four Star Sixty.  That was, until one day, my beloved airplane rolled into a terminal dive.  The crash was not pilot error as it happened from straight and level flight and the radio did not go into failsafe as the throttle did not close as it ought to have done (I had lost all controls).  I sent the receiver, a Spektrum AR6200, to Horizon Hobby UK with an explanatory note.  They replaced it, free of charge, with a new AR 6210 unit “for peace of mind”.  I am full of praise for the speed and quality of service Horizon provided but I became increasingly suspicious of the reliability of the AR 6200 receiver as I had suffered an earlier crash of an Astro Hog in very similar circumstances to the Four Star.  Again there was absolutely no control of any of the functions as the plane descended.

A Beginner’s Guide to Building Model Aircraft

(Learned from bitter experience)

By Comrade Mikhael Braithwaite KGB