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From a Workbench — Repairing a Landing Gear Sub-Wing

Thursday, July 14th, 2016

Back in April, we was advantageous adequate to contest during Top Gun in Lakeland, Florida with my 1/3-scale Fokker Triplane. Unfortunately, during one of my flights, we suffered a dead-stick and had to move a vast triplane down into a severe to a south of a categorical runway. When a indication landed, we found a […]

Precision Aerobatics – Reverse Cuban-8 from a Top with Half Rolls

Wednesday, July 13th, 2016

When we initial started aerobatic competition, exquisite maneuvers that total several elements were of a many formidable to perform both precisely and consistently. Let’s take a loop, for example. While it might be sincerely candid to perform a singular loop, try drifting a straight 8, that is an inside loop followed by an outward loop. […]

F-14 Swing-Wing Tomcat

Friday, July 8th, 2016

This conspicuous swing-wing F-14 is a handiwork of German modeler Rudolf Winter, who built it from a Fly Eagle Jet Model Factory kit. During a flight, a model’s wings brush behind for faster speeds and afterwards pierce brazen for slower moody and landing. The splendid “flares” that are launched during moody are scale (the full-size used […]

Junkers Ju 88 — RC Bomber rebuild

Thursday, July 7th, 2016

When it comes to giant-scale warbirds, some modelers usually can’t let go. This is a box with PJ Ash and his 128-inch-span Junkers Ju 88 twin-engine Luftwaffe bomber. Known now to his friends as his “Phoenix” bomber since it has risen from a ashes, so to speak, PJ’s bomber still flies during many warbird events […]