Building with Speed and Efficiency - 2004/11

THERE ARE TIMES when you don’t care how long it takes to
build a model, because sometimes the journey is more important
than the destination. Other times it becomes a priority to complete
the project as quickly and efficiently as possible. To that end,
following is a compilation of tips and methods for organizing your
shop and planning your activities to finish a building project
rapidly and with minimum wasted time and effort.

Radio Control Slope Soaring - 2004/02

BALSA LIVES! If God had intended man to build model
airplanes with fiberglass, there would be fiberglass trees. In this
time when EPP (expanded polypropylene)-foam sailplanes take
the lion’s share of the market and molded fiberglass sailplanes
define one extreme of speed, strength, and craftsmanship, balsa
bashers are still out there designing, modifying, and flying stickbuilt
Slope jets.

Midwest Slope Challenge 2003

SLOPE SOARING IN KANSAS? Yes, Kansas. Although it’s
surprising to some who may not have flown sailplanes there, it’s
true. It’s windy in the heartland and the topography around Wilson
Lake gives us several primo flying sites, and that’s why it’s been
the place of choice for the Lincoln Area Soaring Society’s
(Nebraska) memorable Soaring-event series.

RADIO CONTROL SLOPE SOARING - 2005/01

GUEST COLUMNIST Greg Smith will cover Soar Utah 2004,
hosted by the InterMountain Silent Flyers and held Labor Day
weekend (September 3-6). Following is his report.
Official festivities of the fifth Soar Utah event started Friday,
September 3, but for many the trip began early in the week with a
Slope Safari, visiting excellent sites in the West and Midwest. A
total of 60 pilots came from California, Colorado, Illinois,
Kansas, Oregon, Minnesota, Utah, and Wisconsin to fly at the
event.

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