February 2020 Articles

• Events, even good ones, come and go: Club membership and leadership turns over, people lose interest in a particular discipline, or they just move on to other hobbies. That’s why it is astonishing when a single annual event is still going strong after 19 years, and still run by the same contest director and club. […]

  

  Southern Scale Heli Challenge

  Events, even good ones, come and go: Club membership and leadership turns over, people lose interest in a particular discipline, or they just move on to other hobbies. That’s why it is astonishing when a single annual event is still going strong after 19 years, and still run by the same contest director and club. […]
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• Over the years, flying giant-scale airplanes at night has increased in popularity, and for good reason. Not only is it fun, but it also presents an exciting challenge that daylight flying cannot provide. When I decided to try night flying, I used my giant-scale CARF Models Edge 540. I had logged many flights with the […]

  

  Night Flying Basics – Tips for installing a high-intensity lighting system

  Over the years, flying giant-scale airplanes at night has increased in popularity, and for good reason. Not only is it fun, but it also presents an exciting challenge that daylight flying cannot provide. When I decided to try night flying, I used my giant-scale CARF Models Edge 540. I had logged many flights with the […]
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• Editor’s note: In this special, two-part report from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., Patrick Sherman of the Roswell Flight Test Crew sits down with curator Roger Connor to talk about the museum’s rapidly expanding collection of modern uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) as well as the history of drones, which […]

  

  A Brief History of Drones

  Editor’s note: In this special, two-part report from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., Patrick Sherman of the Roswell Flight Test Crew sits down with curator Roger Connor to talk about the museum’s rapidly expanding collection of modern uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) as well as the history of drones, which […]
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• This unique kit offered by HobbyKing is modelled after the US Navy’s version of the J-3C-65 Cub. The full-scale aircraft has a US Navy designation of NE-1 and uses a Continental A-65-8 air-cooled horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine producing 65hp driving a constant speed two blade prop. This particular aircraft was assigned to Airship Squadron 32 […]

  

  HobbyKing NE-1 Navy Cub – Great-flying giant scale military version of a classic aircraft

  This unique kit offered by HobbyKing is modelled after the US Navy’s version of the J-3C-65 Cub. The full-scale aircraft has a US Navy designation of NE-1 and uses a Continental A-65-8 air-cooled horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine producing 65hp driving a constant speed two blade prop. This particular aircraft was assigned to Airship Squadron 32 […]
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• Building on their established industry benchmark for flight simulators, RealFlight has released version 9 of their popular RC flight simulator software. Having had the experience of reviewing RealFlight 8 and the RealFlight 8 Horizon Hobby edition, I was asked to test out and report on this latest offering from Horizon and Knife Edge software.   […]

  

  RealFlight/Horizon Hobby RF9 Flight Simulator

  Building on their established industry benchmark for flight simulators, RealFlight has released version 9 of their popular RC flight simulator software. Having had the experience of reviewing RealFlight 8 and the RealFlight 8 Horizon Hobby edition, I was asked to test out and report on this latest offering from Horizon and Knife Edge software.   […]
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• There’s something really special about radio control model airplanes. Like magic, you move your radio’s control sticks and your model’s control surfaces move precisely in sync with your stick movements. Think of servos as the plane’s muscles, and your radio as its brain. Today’s radio systems and servos work flawlessly, and this allows new pilots […]

  

  Servos 101 – All you need to know about your RC airplane’s “muscles”

  There’s something really special about radio control model airplanes. Like magic, you move your radio’s control sticks and your model’s control surfaces move precisely in sync with your stick movements. Think of servos as the plane’s muscles, and your radio as its brain. Today’s radio systems and servos work flawlessly, and this allows new pilots […]
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