Mint Julep Scale Meet - 2003/06

Kentucky has a wealth of beautiful state parks. One of
the jewels—Rough River Dam State Resort Park—is
located on State Highway 79 in Falls of Rough in
western Kentucky. The Kentucky Department of Parks
in association with AMA and the Southern Indiana
R/C Modelers started this meet many years ago. From the start,
Dale Arvin and John Guenther have been working together to
bring Scale-aircraft competition to modelers in this region.
The Mint Julep, held May 17-15 in 2002, regularly draws
modelers from New York to Florida and points west as far as
Kansas and Iowa, but the question you may be asking at this point
is “Why?” There are many reasons for this long-term success
story for Scale competition and the three organizations that started
the contest.

RADIO CONTROL SCALE - 2005/02

MODELERS WHO BUILD Scale aircraft want them to look right,
or have the “right stuff.” Making that happen may seem simple to
some modelers of vast experience, but it’s a huge challenge to
newcomers. Getting the details correct and then proving them is a
must if you plan to enter competition. If not, it’s still fun to make
them right.
Simple aircraft make some of the best Scale models. To see
some, you could go to a full-scale fly-in, the biggest gathering of
airplanes on earth in one week at the Experimental Aircraft
Association’s (EAA) AirVenture Oshkosh in Wisconsin, or an EAA
Fly-In, depending on how long you’ve been going there. The EAA
regularly has more than 12,000 full-scale aircraft. Many are military,
but more than half are civil types. It’s a Scale modeler’s treat!

RC Scale - 2012/06

Regular readers of this column may wonder why I, Mark Lanterman, am this
month’s author, rather than Stan. Stan was unable to finish the column, so I
was asked to fill in. By the time you read this, he should be back in the author’s
seat and all should be back to normal.

Why Not Model... WACO YMF-5 - 2005/02

WIND IN THE wires is a sound that has
been heard in aviation since 1903. Climbing
up the left side of the fuselage and carefully
sliding into a fabric-and-steel-tube-covered
biplane was the thrill of a lifetime for many
pilots and passengers. Feeling the vibration of
the radial engine just ahead of you and
smelling the oil and exhaust is the tonic of the
Golden Age of Aviation.

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