Today’s gliders echo the past - 2015/06
The whole thing started with gliders. The earliest history of model building is mostly an unknown, but there’s little doubt that gliders were constructed and flown long before propulsion systems were added. Perhaps a caveman stood on a cliff and launched a willow stick with bird feathers glued on to it with dried pine resin. Today, our gliders (or sailplanes, if you prefer) are simply refinements of those obscure beginnings.
Old-Timers - 2015/04
Altitude Limited Old-Timer (ALOT) is the term for the Society of Antique Modelers’ (SAM) version of the popular Altitude Limited Electric Soaring (ALES) event for AMA electric sailplanes. It was first mentioned in my column in the December 2012 issue of Model Aviation.
OLD-TIMERS - 2015/02
History is a moving target, progressing at calendar speed. The problem with history is defining when it begins. It’s an individual thing, often depending on when we were born.
OLD-TIMERS - 2014/10
Competition comes in various intensities. Many forms of competition require you to devote most of your life to it for any degree of success. A shot at the Olympics, for example, takes years of effort and monetary outlay. Slack off, and all is lost. Few of us are into that.
OLD-TIMERS
Let’s conclude the cause-and-cure discussion about virtual adverse yaw that began in the June column. I described the climbout of a rudder-elevator (no ailerons) Old-Timer RC aircraft that was behaving oddly. The airplane was climbing out in a right turn as planned, but with the left wing low.
