This circuit provides aircraft modellers with extremely realistic beacon and marker lights at minimum outlay. The project ’s Strobe out-put (A) provides four brief pulses repeated periodically for the wing (white strobe) lights. In addition the Beacon output (B) gives a double pulse to drive a red LED for indicating the aircraft’s active operational status. On the proto-type this is usually a red rotating beacon known as an Anti-Collision Light (ACL). The circuit is equally useful for road vehicle modellers, who can use it to flash headlights and blue emergency lights. Circuit diagram : Lighting Up Model Aircraft Circuit Diagram All signals are generated by a 4060 14-stage binary counter and some minimal output selection logic. Cycle time is determined by the way the internal oscillator is con-figured (resistor and capacitor on pins 9/10) and can be varied within quite broad limits. High-efficiency LEDs are your first choice for the indicators connected to the B...