In part-two of soldering like a pro West Coast Senior Editor, John Reid shows you how to solder any connector onto your batter without transferring any heat to the pack. Enjoy Part Two-Soldering Battery connectors. video platform video management video solutions video player
In this flight technique video, West Coast senior editor John Reid takes you step by step through the teardrop with a roll, a center stage maneuver that allows you to change direction at either end of your aerobatic box. Real-time transmitter inputs shown with the plane in flight will make it look easy! Click here [...]
Check out our review of the latest addition to the Vibe 50 series! “Rotor Speed” columnist Paul Tradelius puts this high-performance machine through its paces and notes that because it’s a kit, when you finish assembly you’ll have an appreciation for the quality and overall design features.
Wouldn’t your scale plane look so much better on display with a scale metal propeller? Making your own is easier than you may think: you just need a damaged wooden prop and a few cardboard tubes. Let master modeler John Tanzer show you how to do it. After building my giant-scale Top Flight Stinson SR-9 [...]
Reviewer Aaron Ham calls this bipe “a compact little hotrod with a ton of power and mind-numbing maneuverability!” Designed for a 40 to 50cc gas engine, this ARF features straightforward assembly and, in the air, it is capable of scale aerobatics as well as unlimited 3D maneuvers. Photos are by Hope McCall. The Bulldog II, flown by [...]
Welcome to the all-new, easier-to-use RC Car Action Membership Site. The site has been reworked to give you a new look and more content as well as improved search and navigation, easy log in and exclusive material that is only available to you, our members. While perusing the site, you’ll find 3+ years of digital editions of RC [...]
I recently started a scratch-built micro light project of a Sopwith Pup of a design by Mats Johansson. This required me to build two scale 1-inch-diameter spoked or covered wheels. The plan calls for building them from three layer of shaped balsa, but my skills being what they are, my version would have been a [...]
Each photo tells a powerful story! And Greatest Aviation Photos reaches back through 15 years of Flight Journal, its special issues, and beyond, for those portraits of flight that speak to us all. From the sweat and sand of the South Pacific to F-22’s blasting through the fringes of the stratosphere to landmark modern photography [...]
–Maximize your performance with energy management By Keith Shaw At any air show, you’ll see many styles of flying. The public’s favorites seem to be the speed, thunder and close quarter flying of the jet teams and the brutal precision of planes such as the Pitts, Laser, Extra and Sukhoi as they effortlessly perform intricate [...]
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