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COMPER CLA 7 SWIFT
1:3RD SCALE
CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
July 2022
No. 272 £5.99
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FULL SIZE FREE PLAN WORTH £10
BLACKBURN
BUCCANEER
25” WINGSPAN,
FOR ELECTRIC
PUSHER-POWER
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AVENGER
A ‘BACK-IN ACTION’ SAGA
KING OF THE DIVE BOMBERS!
GRUMMAN
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RECOVERY &
RESTORATION!
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TYPE HISTORY
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SCALE THREE-VIEWS
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COLOUR SCHEMES
JUNKERS JU 87 STUKA
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SUBJECT FOR SCALE
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SCALE THREE VIEWS
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DETAIL PHOTO STUDY
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COLOUR SCHEMES
THE ISSUE AHEAD...
TYPE HISTORY
Formation...
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FULL SIZE FREE PLAN FEATURE
BLACKBURN BUCCANEER
25.4” (590mm) wingspan, for pusher R/C
electric pusher-power designed by MATT
HOLDEN
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SUBJECTS FOR SCALE
JUNKERS JU 87 STUKA
King of the dive bombers that served on
all European combat zones during WW2
and in North Africa too.
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SCALE FROM SCRATCH
PAST 5: Ken Shephard deals with ailerons,
flaps and linkages
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JU 87 STUKA
SCALE DRAWINGS
1:60 scale three views
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BACK TO THE FUTURE
Built, flown, sold-on, recovered, restored
and back in action. JOHN CARPENTER
reclaims and re-commissions his
Grumman Avenger
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STUKA FLYING COLOURS
Warpaint worn in many combat theatres,
Summer and Winter
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JU 87 STUKE IN DETAIL
Close-up photo study for scale modellers
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TYPE HISTORY
GRUMMAN TBF & TBM AVENGER
A true workhorse of a naval aircraft that
featured in most of the U.S. Corces’ island
hopping progress across the Pacific
Oceon during WW2
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COMPER CLA 7 SWIFT
A nice ‘easy-build ‘large’1/3rd full-size
model that’s actually not too large at
84” (2134mm). Suits 1.5-1.8 cu. in. engines.
Designed by PHILLIP KENT
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AVENGER FLYING COLOURS
Avenger warpaint schemes for WW2 and
post-war service
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COMPER SWIFT
SCALE DRAWING
1:30 scale three views
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GRUMMAN TBM AVENGER
SCALE DRAWING
1:80 Scale three views
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COMPER SWIFT IN DETAIL
Close-up photo study of the full size
aircraft
ON THE
COVER
Be careful what you wish for! John Carpenter built this 96” wingspan, Laser 360 powered Grumman
Avenger back about at the time of the Millennium, did well with it in National Scale competitions;
then sold it on – only to regret the lure of the ‘readies’. More than a decade later, he bought the
sadly ‘aged’ model back and restored to action stations. John tells all in this issue.
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The paper used on this title is from
sustainable forestry
That’s an 18% survival rate, remarkable for
an aircraft designed nearly 90 years past
and perhaps a testament to the affection
that successive owners have had for this
little gem of an aircraft.
Thus, its popularity as a flying
scale model subject has
its own parallel!
Contact...
Nicholas Comper in
later life
Prototype Comper CLA 7 Swift, had a finely shaped nose section that
did not translate to production examples.
designed and flown three aircraft for
the Cranwell Light Aeroplane Club:
the C.L.A.2, C.L.A.3 and C.L.A.4. Then, in 1929
he left the Service, forming the Comper
Aircraft Company to manufacture a new
design, the Comper Swift.
Actually, the prototype Swift was hardly
a raging success, due to powerplant
choice. The horizontally opposed twin-
cylinder 35 h.p. ABC Scorpion engine
proved less than reliable, so it did not take
Nicholas Comper long to apply revisions so
that prospective customers had a choice
of five cylinder Pobjoy radial or in-line De
Havilland Gipsy powerplants
To an extent, that enforced change was
a bit of a shame because it spoiled the
elegant shape of the prototype’s fuselage
shape as the illustration below shows.
A total of 45 CLA 7 Swifts were build
between 1930 and 1933. Of that total,
eight still exists, either airworthy or in
storage in various countries around the
world, plus a couple of modern replicas.
S
mall, light aircraft of the late
1920s-to-late 1930s were, well …
small and light. Consequently,
types like the Compere CLA 7
Swift, even if modeled at 1/3rd
scale like Phillip Kent’s model which is our
major construction feature this month,
are hardly mammoth in size. At 1/3rd
scale the wingspan is still a manageably
transportable 96” (2438mm) wingspan;
even more so at quarter scale so that
scale surface detail, such as it was, is easily
and accurately applied.
It is such simplicities that have, for so
long, made this light aircraft type of that
particular aviation era so attractive to
builders of scale flying models and without
the effort of vast numbersa of building
hours. As Phillip recalls in his text, he
modelled the Swift in several sizes over a
long period of time.
Whilst serving with the Royal
Air Force during the 1020s, Flight
Lieutenant Nicholas Comper had already
Sleek nose section of the Comper Swift prototype,
revealed in this side view drawing.
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