Focus on Competition - 2012/08

If you don’t know
already or haven’t
had the fortune
(yet) of receiving
a temporary
restriction
pertaining to our
model flying fields,
you will stand
a better chance as we get further
into the presidential election. Since
January of 2009, our beloved hobby
has been affected by flight restrictions
for “very important person” (VIP)
movements in and around the
contiguous United States, specifically
the president of the United States.

Focus on Competition - 2008/09

TRY SOMETHING NEW! As I’m
writing this we are deep in the middle of
the AMA Nats here at HQ, and for me it’s
the first time I’ve been exposed to many
of the different specialties in this great
hobby. It is amazing to me how time and
technology has not eliminated many of the
old disciplines as it has too much of our
past.

Focus on Competition - 2011/04

TECH STUFF, Part Two: To reiterate
what I ended with last month, the
importance of the care and size of wire for
servo leads cannot be overemphasized. I
don’t know how many times I’ve had to
explain to modelers that their servos either
didn’t work correctly or at all because of the
wire they used for the lead.

Focus on Competition - 2010/06

Sound ISSueS: The greatest cause of
losing existing flying fields in the past 20
years has been, of course, the noise or
volume of that noise we generate when
flying our model aircraft. The second
Technically Speaking ...
Greg Hahn
Technical Director
[email protected]
Focus on Competition
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greatest cause is the proliferation of soccer,
but we’ll deal with that later.

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