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Twin-turbine English Electric Lightning

Thursday, June 20th, 2013

Beauty is in a eye of a beholder, though compared to today’s modern, colorless fighters, classical jets had some panache. Take a English Electric Lightning, a supersonic interceptor of a ’60s and ’70s that reached double a speed of sound as a initial British jet fighter. With twin built turbine engines, it even looked fast! In […]

Gas engine review: DLA-64 Twin

Thursday, June 20th, 2013

 Xi’an Feiao Model, home to a DLA engine series, expelled a new twin cylinder engine, responding a need for a 60cc category powerplant. When we schooled of a twin, we had to have one. If it was anything like a predecessors, it has to be a primary sheet for a 90-110″ in. category machines. As […]

Sherpa: RC heli that’s full of prohibited atmosphere (really!)

Thursday, June 20th, 2013

On arrangement during this year’s Paris Air Show, a ultralight Sherpa by Belgian startup Sagita aims to make a helicopter simpler, some-more efficient, some-more arguable and some-more affordable. The helicopter’s contra-rotating rotors are directly driven by turbines that are themselves powered by prohibited atmosphere and smoke from a helicopter’s powerplant. Sagita claims that this creates […]

XFC Winners Are Crowned!

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

The 2013 Extreme Flight Championship is in a books.  Taking place during a pleasing AMA domicile in Muncie, Indiana and with good continue for many of a event, a best in a foe laid all on a list to give a closest scoring foe in XFC history. In a loyal general event, organizer Frank Noll […]

The Radio Control Show [Episode 215]

Friday, June 14th, 2013

One of a highlights of RCX each year is a awards banquet, where Model Airplane News benefaction their Editors’ Choice Awards. In this week’s Radio Control Show, get a dip on who won plane, helicopter, creation and radio of a year. Article source: http://www.modelairplanenews.com/blog/2013/06/14/the-radio-control-show-episode-215-2/