Southwest Aeromodeling Conference
The 2000 Southwest Aeromodeling Conference featured successful indoor flying demos, seminars, and a static model display, with plans for expansion in 2001.
MA at 25
Model Aviation celebrates 25 years as a stand-alone magazine, launched in 1998 after AAM's bankruptcy, led by Carl Wheeley and a dedicated team.
Free Flight: Duration
IT IS with great sadness that I report the March 22 passing of longtime Free Flight modeler George Pharr of Cincinnati. Modelers throughout the Midwest will remember George as one of the original Southwest Ohio Free Flighters (SWOFF) from the late 1960s. He was also a prolific builder and excellent competitor. At times he dabbled in the other modeling disciplines, but his primary interest was competition Free Flight. His eldest son, George IV, or "Bubba," often flew with him and was quite successful in his own right-he was an AMA scholarship winner, valedictorian of his class, Rhodes scholar, and so on. George flew virtually every competitive Free Flight event at one time or another, but his flying skill is perhaps what I will remember least about him.
Free Flight: Duration
A TRULY SHEETY IDEA: The June 1991 Duration column contained a photo of the latest in a series of re-entry models I've built in an attempt to re-acclimate myself to Nordic flying. Since a number of people have expressed interested in the design, I'm presenting it here. As the FF team Finals approached last fall, I needed an additional model to give me a reasonable fleet to take to Lost Hills. I became interested in the possibilities of all-sheet wings when doing some catch-up reading of old NFFS Symposium reports, which showed a number of models, particularly those of Peter Allnutt, using this construction.
Free Flight: Duration
POWER FLIERS don't publish: So says Keith Hoover, who seeks to solve the problem by editing the 1992 NFFS Resource Book on Power Models-the State of the Art. If the press release I recently received is any indication, this will be quite a formidable effort. It's Keith's intent to cover virtually every aspect of power flying, from the winning current designs to the classics-Satellites, Pearls, Stardusters, etc. Also featured will be sections on individual components and techniques, such as adjustment, finishing, innovative design, international design, props, and fuels.
