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Hover Collective Pitch Settings

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

In my prior blog we presented some representation angles that are a good place to start for doing autorotations. However, if we are in a routine of training to float it’s critical to revoke a common representation operation to keep a helicopter from being too sensitive. Many helicopter setup instructions suggest 5 to 10° of […]

Perry Georgia Swap Meet

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Every Mar for a past 6 years or so, my buddies and we make a eventuality to a tiny city in Georgia – a place not many people have ever listened of – a place that takes us about 5 hours to expostulate to – a place that is comprehensive sky if we like shopping […]

Free (online) cockpit tours!

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

At the National Museum of a U.S. Air Force website, we can stand into a cockpit of a P-40, a Spad XIII, a B-25B, B-24D, B-29 or even a Kellet autogiro! More than 10 aircraft have practical tours available, and some-more will be taken and uploaded as time and resources allow. You can even toggle adult […]

Assembling a (real!) P-47

Monday, March 11th, 2013

In this 1944 training film, a belligerent support organisation assembles a P-47 in a margin regulating zero some-more than muscle, palm collection and a shipping bin a pieces arrive in. One of my favorite tools is in a beginning: a warning to “read all instructions before unpacking!”  Enjoy! Many interjection to Zenoswarbirdvideos for posting this […]

Road to Top Gun: Zenith 801– Modeling in Metal

Monday, March 11th, 2013

Carlos Rangel is a unchanging during a annual Top Gun Scale Invitational and he is also famous as “the man who builds all-aluminum airplanes”. We got an email from Carlos recently along with some photos of his 2013 foe plane. Here’s what he said. “Well, we was ostensible to contest this year in a Masters […]