Radio Control Slope Soaring - 2004/04
I FOUND A picture that brought back a flood of memories: flying
with Bob and Katie Martin at Soar Utah 1995. Bob was ahead of his
time—way ahead. At the time of the US bicentennial in 1976, he
designed and produced kits for the Coyote and the SR-7: the first
“energy planes” designed for the slope that I knew of in my early
slope-flying days.
Radio Control Slope Soaring - 2006/04
Scheduled Slope Soaring events for 2006
RADIO CONTROL SLOPE SOARING - 2004/10
ONE OF THE TERRIFIC things to do
on the slope with your buddies is fly in
close formation. You may have heard
about “Slope Scale Parties”: the informal
term for flying two to 10 heavy, highperformance
fiberglass warbirds in a
“half-pipe” pattern, tearing across the
slope with high stall turns on each end of
the circuit. Not many things in Slope
Soaring provide as much adrenaline rush
and camaraderie and as many laughs as
formation flying.
Radio Control Slope Soaring - 2011/02
In the August 2010 column I
reported on my search for an RTF or ARF
slope sailplane, and I decided to try a
Multiplex Cularis “servos installed”
version. The Cularis “RR,” or receiverready,
came with an impressive amount of
prefabrication, requiring only gluing on the
wingtips and rudder, connecting the rudder
control link, installing a receiver, and
balancing the airframe.
Radio Control Slope Soaring - 2009/10
FLORIDA IS OUR fourth most populous
state, has the favorable weather, and is
packed full of model builders and fliers. All
that’s missing for our particular brand of RC
fun and fury is hills. Or that’s what I thought
during my first 20 years of Slope Soaring.
There was one spot. According to an
article on TampaBay.com, “It’s known
simply as Mount Trashmore, the only high
ground in flat south Florida. It’s where
Miami’s garbage ends up—millions of tons
of it.”
