The Schuemann Wing
THERE ARE PILOTS like Brian Agnew and Tom Brightbill who can max out with just the picture of a model Sailplane! Meanwhile, the rest of us are still looking for that one special design that will magically turn us into Top Gun fliers. Traditionally this search has led to our borrowing design features from Free Flight, from full-
Radio Control: Soaring
I'm Pete Carr from Columbus, Ohio. I'm a Contest Director, AMA 536, with a Ham ticket of WW30, and I am a past-president of the National Soaring Society. I'm working on the eight-hours and distance tasks to finish LSF Level V (since 1982!). I also subscribe to the R/C Soaring Exchange and welcome postings from you all. I'd like to commend Dave Garwood for the fine work he did as your Soaring columnist. Dave did a wonderful job of bringing us a cross-section of activities from around the country. His interviews with the "legends" of Soaring were particularly interesting to those of us who are working to master the seven-minute task. Late October is the time of year for Cumberland, Maryland and the annual Soar-for-Fun. Old Knobley Hill is a westward-facing slope with a beautiful view, located just west of town. RC pilots gather here for one last flying session before winter's arrival.
New Life For Old: Four-Wire Servos
FOR THOSE who look for a frustration index of 11 on a scale of 1-10, with a side order of eye strain and a sore neck, working on servos has to rate high marks. Why, then, would anyone want to rebuild an old servo, especially as the price of a new one with all the latest features is so reasonable? One reason is that some of the older units had tighter gears and stronger motors than some of the "economy" servos of today. More important, when someone asks you what rig you use, you can say, "just bits and pieces of this and that," and they will think you are the original eccentric genius.
Sig Cub Contest
THREE YEARS AGO at the January meeting of our model club, we found that interest had waned to the extent that the group was in danger of folding. It seemed that the members were getting older, and there were no new faces showing up to help fill out the ranks. The usual schemes were discussed, but we concluded that a fresh approach was needed. The program resulting from that fateful meeting has been far better than we could have imagined. Instead of our winters being filled with long days in the basement building models to be stored away until springtime, we spent our spare time in building simple models to be flown right away and in scheming how to stretch a few extra seconds of flight time from a length of rubber. We had decided to hold a Sig Cub Contest.
