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Maintaining Your Aircraft – Easy ways to keep your plane in tip-top, flight-worthy shape

To get show-stopping performance on a model like this Thunder Tiger 37.5% Yak 54, a pilot must perform various preflight checks to ensure that the aircraft is mechanically sound.

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Depending on where you live in the US, flight season can be anytime when the weather is pilot friendly. I like to go over my airplanes before I put them back into service, I like to do some inspection and any needed maintenance. With this said, lets discuss the maintenance we should all perform on our giant-scale aircraft. Every year, my father and I go through our entire fleet of airplanes to ensure that everything...

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