Radio Control: Soaring
LAST month, this column highlighted a few subjects seen at the Australian F3B World Championships. There was also a feature article in the same issue that covered the event more in depth. However, judging from the phone calls and questions regarding the details of the performances, a lot of you readers were interested in a further breakdown of the scoring. Details of each round constitute a total of nearly 50 pages of tabulations, which includes a listing of each flier's performance with a display of his raw and final scores for each task. Way too much to print here!
Radio Control: Soaring
NEAT! A little item which served very well throughout the F3B World Championships in Australia was the monitor pictured here this month. It is small enough to sit comfortably on an 8 1/2 × 11 sheet of paper. It's labeled the "AOR Communications Receiver" and the model number is AR 2001, and it is manufactured by AOR Ltd. of Japan. Besides covering all frequencies from 25 through 550 MHz, the AR 2001 also has a 20-memory scan feature. This means a whole band, such as 72 MHz, can be programmed into it.
Radio Control: Soaring
NEAT! A little item which served very well throughout the F3B World Championships in Australia was the monitor pictured here this month. It is small enough to sit comfortably on an 8 1/2 × 11 sheet of paper. It's labeled the "AOR Communications Receiver" and the model number is AR 2001, and it is manufactured by AOR Ltd. of Japan. Besides covering all frequencies from 25 through 550 MHz, the AR 2001 also has a 20-memory scan feature. This means a whole band, such as 72 MHz, can be programmed into it.
I985 NATS: RC Soaring
DEAR BOSS: This was more like it. The 1985 Nats, I mean. Remember Reno and all the negative comments, bad attitudes, and in general the bad time had by all? Well, I'm pleased to say this year's event was the antithesis of the bash held in 1984. It's not that this contest was perfect-there's no record of one yet with that rating-but the feeling in the air by all of the contestants and officials was that we've going to make this one work. That attitude prevailed for five days. Contest Director Jeff Troy and about 15 of his club members from the Valley Forge Signal Seekers, along with other volunteer help, kept the biggest-ever Thermal Soaring event humming for almost a week. That was no simple task, especially when you look at some of the covered with MonoKote?
Radio Control: Soaring
ONE of the most popular large (and by "large" I mean larger than most other kits) Sailplanes was the Sagitta-XC. This 174-in. model with its four-piece wing was a builder's delight. In the best tradition of Airtronics and the late Lee Renaud, most of the parts were machine-cut and fit with nearly zero tolerances. Unfortunately, only 500 of these kits were produced and were quickly bought up by modelers interested in cross-country flying. Over the seven years that this model graced the skies, modelers-being modelers-tried different modifications to improve the original version. Some were successful; some were not. One who did make changes worthy of note was Warren Plohr (Ohio), recently past-president of the League of Silent Flight.
