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    RC Kits: The Great Planes Ultra Sport 60 … Building The Turtle Deck

    By Gary A. Ritchie In this column we will build the turtledeck – the portion of the upper fuselage that lies behind the cockpit. That will set the stage for designing and building a removable battery hatch that contains the canopy. After the glue dried on the turtledeck formers, the ¼” balsa...
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    Rocket Powered RC — The Me-163 Komet

    When it comes to blasting off from the runway, nothing beats a rocket powered warbird. Fireworks and firepower all in one package, what a great combination! Anyway, one of our favorite RC WW 2 warbirds is the rocket-powered flying wing the Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet! (Above) plans available...
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    Road to Top Gun — Chuck Hamilton’s Douglas SDB-3 Dauntless Dive-Bomber

    Chuck Hamilton from Bremen, IN will be competing for the first time at the 2017 Top Gun Scale Invitational. Chuck have been preparing myself since he got back in to the hobby 15 years ago and he’ll be flying his beautiful SDB-3 Dauntless. Every model he has built in some way ties to his...
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    Budget building: how to edge-glue balsa

    At some point in your model-building career, you will be faced with a problem. You will have an area of your model that requires a sheet of balsa wider than the material you have on hand. If you are like me, this usually happens when you are starting to make significant progress and when the...
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    5 Tips for flying a Triplane at Top Gun — Notes from a first-time competitor

    With it quickly becoming Top Gun season for 2017, I thought I would again show this post from last year. Being invited by Frank Tiano, I was extremely pleased with myself and with how well my big Fokker Triplane performed at my first ever Top Gun event. It had been several years since I flew in...
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    Road to Top Gun — Jamie Fiffles’ Chance Vought F4U Corsair

    Jaime Fiffles is once again making his trek from Los Angeles to Lakeland FL to compete at Top Gun. This year he will be flying in Expert with his 1/4-scale F4U Corsair which spans 122 inches. Scratch built from Don Smith plans Jaime’s aircraft is all wood, with detailed rivet and panel lines...
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    RC Aerobatics: Negative Snap from an Inverted Climb

    For this maneuver, the pilot enters from inverted flight and pushes to establish a 45-degree climb then he performs 1½ negative snaps. After the snap, another line segment (equal to the first line) is then executed. Once the maneuver is complete, the pilot must pull 135 degrees to exit in...
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    Knife-Edge Circle with a Positive 1 1/2 Snap Roll

    The first time I saw a knife-edge circle was at the Tournament of Champions in Las Vegas, NV. Seeing an airplane rolled 90 degrees to knife-edge flight and having the pilot push on the elevator stick to initiate the circle while maintaining altitude with rudder was a sight to behold, and it...
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    Flying Boat with 12 Four-Stroke Engines

    Built and piloted by Michael Bräuer, this impressive scratch-built plane has a 16-foot wingspan and weighs in at 132 pounds, and it’s powered by twelve (12!) O.S. .62 4-strokes. This 1/10-scale Dornier DO-X is done up in 1929 Lufthansa livery was designed. The model has Futaba servos, fiberglass...
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    From the Mailbag | Power Loading

    I read with great interest what Greg Hahn wrote in the April issue. I must agree with most of what he said in his “Speed, Props, and Power!” article. It is ironic that he chose a Ziroli Texan as an example. In 1982, Nick Jr. and I each built my 101-inch AT-6 and powered them both with 2.4ci...
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    Road to Top Gun — Bret Becker and his amazing North American XB-70 Valkyrie

    Intended to be the ultimate deep-penetration nuclear equipped strategic bomber, the North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie looks like it jumped off the pages of a Buck Rogers pulp-fiction comic book. The six-engined bomber was capable of reaching speeds in access of mach 3 while flying at an...
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    Desktop Laser Cutter — 40Watt hobby grade laser review — with Video

    After several years of RC modeling use, the compact laser cutter from Full Spectrum Laser, is still going strong and has been almost maintenance free. If you’ve ever wanted to get a laser cutter for your workshop, check out this product review. This impressive, easy to used unit is designed...
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    Road to Top Gun — Rogerio Araujo’s Brazilian P-47 Thunderbolt

    Team Brazil will be in full force at Paradise Field this year. Our good friend and Brazilian flying buddy Rogerio Araujo is coming to Top Gun with a new entry this year in the form of his P-47 dressed in Brazilian Air Force. Used in the European Theater of Operations, Italy during 1944 –...
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    Bill Holland and his Amazing Half-Scale Fokker Triplane

    Many scale competitors who’ve flown at Top Gun, know Bill Holland as the Chief Judge for the scale invitation, but he is also a very accomplished and experienced scale model builder and flyer. His newest project is this amazing 50% scale Fokker Dr.1 Triplane and it is a work of RC art! Bill...
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    Kyosho ReadySet 1/18 G-Zero Drone Racer

    From Kyosho: DRONE RACER glides above the ground with pistol-grip transmitter control. Unlike existing drones that are difficult to control, the sensational DRONE RACER is controlled like an R/C car with a pistol-grip transmitter. Takeoff and auto-hover with one-touch control using ultrasonic...
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    WRAM /AMA East Expo — Amazing Aviation History Lessons

    As many already know, 2017 was the first year that the annual model trade show, formally known as the WRAM show, switched hands and became the new AMA East Expo. Held at the Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, NJ, this year’s event had a double helping of Aviation History. Special guest...
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    Kyosho Syncro KT-631ST 6 Channel Radio With Telemetry

    From Kyosho: This intermediate-class 6ch transmitter and receiver set uses a telemetry system that displays information such as the receiver voltage and communication status (error rate) on the transmitter’s LCD screen. Ideal for the Calmato a and models with retractable undercarriage and...
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    DIY Shop Table (you’ll wonder how you lived without it!)

    As a long-time-fan of the PBS show “New Yankee Workshop” I’ve seen quite a few good woodworking projects, but none more handy than the large roll around shop table. I knew I’d have to build it one day when I had the room for it in a workshop I hadn’t even yet built. Sorry to say, the show is no...
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    Ki-15 Karigane (Wild Goose)

    Briefly in 1937, the Mitsubishi Ki-15 (Allied code-name “Babs”) was the fastest production aircraft in the world! The Ki-15 Karigane (Wild Goose) was a two-seat reconnaissance aircraft with a top speed of 300mph. It was about the same size as a P-47 Thunderbolt but only one-third as heavy and...
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    4 Simple Shop Tips

    Simple tricks are the best, don’t you think? These tips may not change your life, but they will make your time in the shop easier and more enjoyable. Have your own tip you’d like to share? Send it to MAN@airage.com and you could be featured in the magazine! SMOOTH THAT OLD IRON Have you...
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