Radio Control: Scale
NASA (National Association of Scale Aeromodelers) kingpin Stan Alexander has been kind enough to lend his skill to this column. Stan and I will alternately provide the magazine's monthly Radio Control (RC) Scale report, assuring you a good balance, varying points of view, and a slightly different flavor and style. Stan does a great job! Spitfire Build-Along: I have received letters regarding the disappearance of the Spitfire build-along. Interest was never lost; only bench time was lost. My work schedule has eased a little, and I'm back on the Spitfire again. This is a very nice Scale-for-fun project, and I'm sorry to have let it go for so long. The last installment that I can remember had you mounting the engine of your choice, and completing most of the forward fuselage construction. The vertical fin and horizontal stabilizer should be sheeted and sanded, and the rudder and two elevator panels should be ready for fabric covering.
Radio Control: Scale
RADIO CONTROL (RC) Scale events at the 1999 National Aeromodeling Championships offered five AMA events: Fun Scale, Sportsman Sport Scale, Expert Sport Scale, Designer Scale, and Team Scale. The events began this year's "Nats" competition Friday, July 9, with static judging at the Horizon Convention Center in downtown Muncie, Indiana-home to the Academy of Model Aeronautics since the early 1990s. With the exception of Fun Scale, whose models only have to look something like the prototype they're claimed to represent, each model in each event went through a virtual gauntlet of static judging.
