Volume 16 No. 2 - Mar/Apr 2000
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FLYING RAZORS AND FLYING PIGEONS!
This issue features the third installment in our unique Russian Naval Nieuports series with five extremely rare period photos and the editor's three colour profiles on the inside back cover. Other top features include a photo report of an airworthy Fokker D.VIII reproduction built by Roger Freeman in the USA, and the curious Albree/Pigeon Fraser Scout monoplane described and illustrated by Colin A Owers with his own 1:48 and 1:72 scale drawings that provide all you need to know about one of the true aeronautical oddities of the war! Elsewhere,Alberto Casirati uncovers some colourful Italian Nieuport 'babes' and there are six packed pages of the latest kits,decals and accessories released in the first few months of 2000!
ONE of this issue's lead features showcases Roger Freeman's full-size Fokker D.VIII reproduction,the subject of our outer covers and a photo spread of close -ups. Elsewhere,more books are reviewed,Alberto Casirati takes a look at colourful Italian Nieuport Bebes with some rare photos from his archives, whilst Part 3 of Andrei Alexandrov's pictorial survey of Russian Naval Nieuports is continued with a number of photos,full serial listings of all known service examples and three colour plates by editor Ray Rimell depicting Nieuport 10; Nieuport 24bis and Nieuport25 aircraft in Russian colours.Colin Owers presents this issue's plans feature and it's the radical Albree/Pigeon Fraser Scout of 1918! Never heard of it? Well neither had we until Colin provided over a dozen photos and his own scale drawings to 1:48 and 1:72 scales that will provide all you need for an engrossing scratch building project.Six pages of detailed model kit reviews and a colour page of reader's models close out the very first issue of the new millenium!
