Category: Flying Techniques

  • Pilot’s notes

    Pilot’s notes

    Continuing our voyage of discovery into the art of aerobatics we’ll take a look at the slow roll this time […]

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  • Flying from water?

    Flying from water?

    Treat water like concrete and you'll not go far wrong. Although I’ve been model flying now for over twenty years, […]

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  • Want a slope arsenal?

    Want a slope arsenal?

    The stable light air machine and the only foamie worth considering is Dreamflight's Alula. In a total affront to common […]

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  • Flap Happy?

    Flap Happy?

    Talk about flaps in R/C aeromodelling circles and there’ll no doubt be a fair amount of puzzlement and head scratching […]

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  • Want to fly 3D?

    Want to fly 3D?

    3D flying has come a long way since Paul Heckles took his WOT4 to the limit with countless '3D' machines […]

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  • Pilot’s notes

    Pilot’s notes

    We recently looked at setting up a model and introduced the (relatively simple) positive spin into our aerobatic repertoire. There […]

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  • Pilot’s notes

    Pilot’s notes

    For a number of years at the Sandown show we heard fellow pilots and spectators shout out “Blender!” to Christophe […]

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  • Pilot’s notes

    Pilot’s notes

    A few weeks ago we looked at the roll, and added the refining complexities of using all the controls smoothly […]

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  • What Goes Up – Pt.1

    If you found my lift article 'What Goes Up' in the December 2010 issue of RCM&E interesting then here are a few […]

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  • Pilot’s notes

    Pilot’s notes

      Knife-edge flight is that condition where the model is flying on its side, using one side of the fuselage […]

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