Small Radio Control Modeling: Where Less is More!
WheTher YoU’re flying aerobatics,
a heavy-metal warbird, or just boring
holes in the sky with your Stinger, “bigger
flies better” is undeniably true; large
models track better in a wind and fly more
realistically than smaller models.
However, with bigger models comes
the need for travel to distant flying fields
and considerable time spent packing
airplanes and paraphernalia in the ultimate
big-model tool: the minivan.
At the field, significant time is spent
assembling and disassembling the model,
and building these large models requires
large shops and power tools.
What many modelers have come to
understand is that although bigger may
fly better, “small flies more often”—
mostly because small, light models can
be flown pretty much anywhere there’s
an open area.
Small models can also be built,
transported, and stored more easily than
their larger brethren, and these are big
advantages to the growing number of
people living in condos and apartments.
This has prompted, almost literally, an
explosion of activity with smaller,
simpler models.
Small Radio Control Modeling: Where Less is More!
WheTher YoU’re flying aerobatics,
a heavy-metal warbird, or just boring
holes in the sky with your Stinger, “bigger
flies better” is undeniably true; large
models track better in a wind and fly more
realistically than smaller models.
However, with bigger models comes
the need for travel to distant flying fields
and considerable time spent packing
airplanes and paraphernalia in the ultimate
big-model tool: the minivan.
At the field, significant time is spent
assembling and disassembling the model,
and building these large models requires
large shops and power tools.
What many modelers have come to
understand is that although bigger may
fly better, “small flies more often”—
mostly because small, light models can
be flown pretty much anywhere there’s
an open area.
Small models can also be built,
transported, and stored more easily than
their larger brethren, and these are big
advantages to the growing number of
people living in condos and apartments.
This has prompted, almost literally, an
explosion of activity with smaller,
simpler models.
