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Port City R/C Club
Bombs Away!
Pictured is a P-47 150 making a bombing run.Each aircraft in our warbird fleet is equipped with Slimline smoke system components and custom-fabricated bomb releases. While we do drop the beautiful scale H9 bombs.
ProTek R/C iCharger 208B
allows you to charge and balance 2S to 8S lithium batteries, or multiple batteries. Full Story |
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Carl Risteen's Biplane Secrets
Bonus info from our interview with aeronautical engineer and model designer Carl Risteen. Full Story | Video
Design and Evolution of a Sport Airplane
A re-visited to a design that started back in the days when virtually all “sport” or “fun-fly” planes were kits.Full Story |
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Let's Get Back to Building
I can remember when kit building was the way of life. If you wanted an RC airplane, you had to build it. Full Story | VideoHow To:
I was asked to write
an article about building, and equipping electric indoor foamys.
Where to start? First of all,
I'd recommend going to Bunker School during the winter, on Tuesday evening
from 5:00 pm to 9:00 p.m. a couple of times....
This method involves laminating a cylinder of 1/64-inch plywood and capping it with a balsa ring for the leading edge. The method of making a round cowling involves laminating a cylinder from 1/64-inch plywood and capping it with a balsa ring for the leading...
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When Roy Vaillancourt wanted to fly his 1/4 scale Bird Dog and Sentinel models he went to his workshop to draw up a plan for 1/4 scale skis. You can download his plan here.
Aerobatics
From a nice low entry with your ship really cranked on, pull up into a full inside loop, continue for another half loop which should put you at the top of the first loop inverted. At this point the plane has 'spent' most of its' momentum and a lot of speed. Neutralize...
Read More...Here again power is a distinct benefit due to the abrupt 90-degree pull up at the entry, followed by a tall vertical climb. Here we are looking for an unwavering, brisk climb to the 'crown', where a quick push of down will press model over the top into horizontal...
Read More...The most important part of a tail slide is the entry. To achieve a tail slide, a true vertical entry is required before the reduction of throttle; otherwise, the plane will slip into a hammerhead, resulting in a zero score for the maneuver in International Miniature...
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Shout Box
- Rich F. : 18:37 "OUT"
- Rich F. : Hello RCer's 16:30
- Ron H : lol
- Rich F. : My vote is wing.
- Ron H : Carl - any chance you could put the Big Bird Fly-in info on the home page? - maybe replace the "Bombs Away"
- Ron H : as the divorced guy said to his ex - "the check is in the mail"
- Ron H : I'm not sure if I want to start on the wing or cowl next
- Ron H : ya, so far
- Ron H : Hi Rich
- Rich F. : Your really moving on the new build