The Inside Loop - 2008/08
have the benefit of going to trade
conventions on a semiregular basis. I
go for many reasons, including those
that help me find evidence of trends
developing in the hobby. Last fall I was in
Chicago at the iHobby Expo, and what I
saw wasn’t just a trend—put more
accurately, it was a full-blown outbreak. I
never said the word “cool” so many times
in my entire life.
The 2006 Pinnacle of Aeromodeling - 2006/11
The Nats reunited AMA’s family during six weeks in the Midwest
for a sumptuous helping of tradition and today’s latest
How To Do It Flat Foam Farming - 2009/03
Make this weightless material even lighter
NO ONE EVER said that foam was the
new balsa. Both are essential in modeling
today, because they are lightweight and
available in varying densities to suit various
needs. Although balsa has foam beat hands
down in tensile and compression strength,
foam is more consistent in density. And in
thin sheets such as Depron, foam is far
lighter.
Plane Talk: ESM Douglas Dauntless SBD ARF - 2011/03
THE DOUGLAS DAUNTLESS has been
called the principle Allied dive-bomber in the
Pacific Theater of Operations. In the American
Navy war effort throughout the Pacific during
World War II, the late carrier strike bomber of
the 1930s punched back at the enemy and
soldiered on even as more advanced warplanes
outflanked it inside its own hangar.
Zactly F3P - 2009/03
Indoor aerobatics is all about doing it slow
THE COOL THING about flat-foam models is that almost
anything you can think up that has wing area and a correctly
located CG will fly. My biplane design came about just that way;
it’s exactly what I wanted.
