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Sky Bandit! Inflight Video from a Bob Violett Models’ Sports Jet

Friday, August 15th, 2014

Model Airplane News writer and consultant Scale and Jet commander Sean McHale has been drifting jets for a prolonged time and he does a good job. Recently He strapped a GoPro Hero camera to his BVM Bandit turbine powered sports jet and constructed a good onboard moody video with several camera angles! Check it out!   […]

Stellar T-33 Shooting Star

Thursday, August 14th, 2014

Used during a noontime demo flights during a new Warbirds over Delaware troops extravaganza, this T-33 Shooting Star is a work of longtime WOD attendee Paul LeToureanu. This year, Paul was a Sky Boss for all of a mid-day demo flights and while he wasn’t creation certain all went off as planned, he was also a […]

7-Engine Russian Bomber

Thursday, August 14th, 2014

If we like flying really big, singular aircraft, afterwards this 16-foot-span Kalinin K-7 competence be usually what you’re looking for! With a wingspan tighten to that of a B-52, usually one full-size K-7 was ever built, and it crashed after 7 flights due to a tail bang structural failure, so it’s puzzled you’ll run into another RC chronicle […]

Workshop Build-Along — Sopwith Camel Part 13 — Wings are a Thing!

Thursday, August 14th, 2014

Now that a Camel can lay adult on a possess articulated alighting gear, it’s time to purify off a dais and start gluing ribs to spars. With all my wings, we start by pinning a punch to a house and afterwards we use a integrate of a ribs to space a trailing edges and sub-spars. […]

Workshop Build-Along Part 12 — Sopwith Camel — Articulated Axle Assembly

Wednesday, August 13th, 2014

Wow! That’s a mouthful… Part of a impression of a Sopwith aircraft, is a pattern of their alighting rigging and in sold their “articulated” (pivoting) spindle assembly. Much of a alighting rigging public has been done from song handle that has been bend, firm and soldered together to replicate a figure of a gear, that […]