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Throw Back Thursday — Betty Skelton and a Lil’ Stinker Pitts

Thursday, September 4th, 2014

Throw Back Thursday, this past Sunday we remembered one of a good Pitts Special Pilots, Betty Skelton who upheld divided 3 years ago, (June 28, 1926 – Aug 31, 2011).  She was famous as The First Lady of Firsts, and helped emanate opportunities for women in aviation, automobile racing, astronautics and advertising. Betty soloed in […]

Question of a Week: Aerobatics — Who’s a Best?

Thursday, September 4th, 2014

As we container adult to conduct to a US Air Meet sponsored by Horizon Hobby and hosted during a Seacoast Regional Airport in Sanford, ME., we removing vehement to see all a good RC and full-size airshow planes. One of a good friends who’ll be during a airshow, pilots both RC and full-size aerobatic planes and […]

Workshop Tips — Laminating Balsa Parts

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014

As my online Build-Along for a Sopwith Camel continues, we recently did some lamination work on a tip wing, and suspicion it would make a good How To. This technique has been used for decades though to a new era of RC indication builders competence be value explaining in detail. Here’s how we did. There’s […]

What telemetry can do for you

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014

Transmitters such as a MC-32 Pro have a dedicated shade for telemetry information. Receiving real-time information about a state and functioning of your aeroplane during moody enables a RC commander to make sensitive decisions therefore contributing to altogether reserve and assent of mind. The stream generations of radios yield several sorts of telemetry information such […]

Workshop Tips — Working with Laminated Parts

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014

So, final night we finished a core cutout crawl for a Camel’s tip wing. In all, it took about 48 hours for a laminated balsa strips to entirely dry and close into a ridged lamination. Here’s how we incorporated a new shaped partial into a Sopwith’s wing structure. Last time, we left off with a […]