Safety Comes First - 2011/05

TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS are the bane of the publishing
world. One little goof and I get waves of semihumorous e-mail
messages from
friends reminding
me that perfection is
hard to achieve.
Some MA readers
save each issue, so
any errors in this
column can be
rediscovered by
future generations of
modelers. Oh
goody.

Safety Comes First 01/10

RECEIVED a letter that mentioned “corporal tunnel syndrome.” It
sounded like that old movie, The Great Escape, but I realized that the
sender meant “carpal” tunnel, and he was referring to something the
doctors call “repetitive motion injuries.”

Safety Comes First - 2009/03

The wing-cracker tool snaps into action
GETTING YOUR MODEL overhead in the first place can be a
big problem if you are flying one of the inexpensive stick-balsa
ARFs from the toy store. Kids start out with these airplanes and too
often learn that the flight potential is extremely low. After a
disillusioning failure with the low end of aeromodeling, a youngster
is likely to head back indoors and play a video game.

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