Safety Comes First - 2005/03

“WITH CONTROL LINE, the airplane
never gets more than 60 feet away from
you and you can watch it all the time—in
fact, you better watch it all the time!”
—Nick V.
CL Combat fliers may disagree (they
can fly by feel while watching their
competitor’s airplane), but keeping your
aircraft in sight is important for the rest of
us. Outdoor RC pilots frequently have an
issue with glare from the sun. The Red
Baron made use of the fact that an airplane
is hard to see when it’s in the sun, but now
we also know that ultraviolet (UV) rays
from sunlight can damage human eyes. Do
you wear UV-blocking glasses when
flying?

Safety Comes First - 2008/08

LOOK AT THE two photos of Don Butman’s immaculate P-40. This
was a Guillow’s kit, mind you. He is almost finished building it, with
only the propeller installation to go.
The whole model comes apart easily for storage or crashing, and it
is held together with imbedded magnets. Even the CO2 motor is held in
place magnetically.

Safety Comes First - 2011/05

TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS are the bane of the publishing
world. One little goof and I get waves of semihumorous e-mail
messages from
friends reminding
me that perfection is
hard to achieve.
Some MA readers
save each issue, so
any errors in this
column can be
rediscovered by
future generations of
modelers. Oh
goody.

Safety Comes First 01/10

RECEIVED a letter that mentioned “corporal tunnel syndrome.” It
sounded like that old movie, The Great Escape, but I realized that the
sender meant “carpal” tunnel, and he was referring to something the
doctors call “repetitive motion injuries.”

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