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Model Airplane News - RC Airplane News | A Buster of a Canopy!

A Buster of a Canopy!

Buster Canopy How To By Bud Roane   When doing a canopy for a sport model, where I want as light a weight as possible and a nice appearance, I usually just spray the inside of the canopy with plastic spray paint. This is a technique that I learned from Dick Sarpolis many years ago. […]
Model Airplane News - RC Airplane News | Lighting up the Glowdog

Lighting up the Glowdog

–How to install the onboard LED lighting system By Keith “Sparky” Sparks    More photos below   Flying model planes at night was not very practical at most flying fields until the quiet powered electric models became popular. These smaller models have created a new market for ready to install lighting equipment. However, with a […]
Solar-Powered Charging Station for Electric Planes

Solar-Powered Charging Station for Electric Planes

By Arlen Harbaugh and Jim Norcutt See Photos Below Loudoun County Aeromodelers Association (LCAA) is a club of approximately 150 members located in Northern Virginia. We fly in a nature preserve, and there is no AC power at the flying site. As more and more flyers choose electric planes, we’ve seen a big increase of […]
JR 6th Annual Indoor Electric Fesitval

JR 6th Annual Indoor Electric Fesitval

Join Us! Be our friend, follow us, talk to us, stay in touch with us, or just say Hi! <!– –> MEET THE TEAM Gerry Yarrish Senior Technical Editor Watch for updates from Gerry on location at the 2009 JR Electric Indoor Festival. The Festival runs November 6,7 and 8, 5000 East Broad Street, Columbus, […]
Model Airplane News - RC Airplane News | SEFF 2009

SEFF 2009

            If a flying event can grow to become a living, breathing, pulsating, life form with its own mannerisms and language – SEFF is it! What Joe Nall has become to giant scalers, SEFF has become to electric flyers around the country.             From its humble beginnings in 2002 with 130 pilots, the event […]
Model Airplane News - RC Airplane News | Let’s Get Back to Building

Let’s Get Back to Building

Text and photos by Jerry Smith I can remember when kit building was the way of life. If you wanted an RC airplane, you had to build it. In those days, kits were a pile of wood, a set of plans and maybe a pre-bent landing gear, if you were lucky. Sometimes the ribs and […]
Model Airplane News - RC Airplane News | JT MODELS GEE BEE R-1

JT MODELS GEE BEE R-1

By Bob Aberle Photos by Bob Aberle & Ray Juschkus     While attending the big JR Indoor RC Festival last November in Columbus, OH, I witnessed several flights of the JT Models Gee Bee R-1 aircraft. The excellent flight performance of this aircraft inside the large sports dome totally caught my attention. The little Gee […]
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