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Para-RC Cloud 1.5
Web & Digital: Powered paragliding has become popular with full-scale aviation enthusiasts. RC modelers can also try powered paragliding with the Para-RC Cloud 1.5 available at Hacker Motors USA. This 1/5-scale rendition of a powered paraglider (PPG) is propelled by an electric motor and uses standard radio gear. It is a unique RC model that offers an equally distinct flying experience. See it in action online and in the digital edition.
Actor, Modeler Reginald Denny
Web: Reginald Denny was born at the same time that Nikola Tesla invented electricity and Thomas Edison created cinema. While living in an orphanage, he’d watch “aeroplanes” fly overhead and carve models of the curious aircraft. This later led the movie and television actor to start his own business and hobby shop. Model Aviation Executive Editor Jay Smith talked more about the late actor on his April episode of Model Aviation LIVE. You can watch this episode and others on YouTube.
Learn How-Tos
In this issue, you can read a feature story about how the hobby helped modelers across the country cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of them turned to building to pass the time and take their minds off of what was going on around them. If you enjoy building or would like to learn, AMA created a series of videos and compiled some helpful tips and tricks submitted by readers. You can watch the videos, including a tour of the Du-Bro factory, and read more at www.modelaviation.com/how-to-tips. Here are some comments about the tips and videos:
Morris Lee: An even easier way to tell your charged batteries from your discharged ones is that once you charge your battery, slip your balance connector between the discharge leads you plug into the ESC. Then pull the balance connector out from between them once you’re ready to use the battery.
Jim Slaughter: Good stuff Jay!!
William Hoenstine: Thanks for the video tour—very interesting. Just wish hobby shops weren’t disappearing like they are today!
