Hotlanta Hucktoberfest - 2009/07

THE ATLANTA, Georgia, event was the last
in a series of Huckfests held across the US in
2008 after a successful run of gatherings at
Saint Louis, Missouri; Woodstock,
Connecticut; and Napoleon, Ohio. Held
October 24-26 and co-sponsored by the Flying
Giants and Extreme Flight R/C, the venue was
the Georgia Model Aviators’ (GMA) club field
just outside of Cumming.

Joe Nall Giant Scale Fly-In

BEAUTIFUL South Carolina weather smiled on us for three gorgeous days of flying. The 10th annual Joe Nall Giant Scale Fly-In, held May 15-17, 1992, was the largest International Miniature Aircraft Association (IMAA) event ever held in the South. In fact, the fly-in is second only to the largest IMAA event-the IMAA Rally of Giants, held annually at different locations throughout the United States. The setting for this well-attended event was Hartness Field, Greenville, South Carolina. Each year Pat Hartness, owner and host, opens the big iron gates to his 400-acre estate and allows spectators and pilots complete freedom to wander about taking in the wonders of the place.

Dual Battery System

DO YOU FLY Giant Scale airplanes? Are you running multiple servos and experiencing some glitching from your radio? Could be you're short on battery power. Some modelers like to use six or seven servo functions-and, to top it off, they double up on some servos to increase power for added safety. That means it's possible to wind up with eight or nine servos in one airplane! When the radio system is on, the servos are sitting at idle drawing a small, fixed amount of current. When a command is given (a stick on the transmitter is moved), a servo or several servos respond by moving and by drawing significantly more current. This increased demand for current causes a momentary voltage drop to ripple through the entire system-and the receiver, sensing the low voltage, temporarily loses sensitivity. During that split-second loss in sensitivity, the receiver sends a glitch to all the servos, and the resulting twitch can be seen at the control surfaces. This situation becomes even more pronounced when the battery is on the flat part of the discharge curve.

The 11th Annual Joe Nall Giant Scale Fly-In: RC Heaven and Southern Hospitality in Greenville, South Carolina

Go down Smith road, through the big iron gates, and you are in RC heaven! (Well, it's true.) The largest International Miniature Aircraft Association (IMAA) event held in the southeastern US took place May 13-16. More than 260 pilots registered with some 350 aircraft. In some places, models were spread out two and three deep along the flight line. (You can imagine what it was like trying to get a frequency pin.)

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