Preparing for the MAAA Nationals
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September - October 2025
Ready to Paint
Mk V canopy replaced
Landing in a Strong Crosswind
Repaired Again
Amazing Talent
Could it Race Again?
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August 2025
Flex x Innovations C170 glider tug
Foka V test flight
Electric versus Glo
Caibre 60
Compass installed- getting closer
Balsa USA SE-5a
210 kph on 10s for five minutes
Seagull Nemesis EP
July 2025
248 kph straight and level
Seagull Nemesis EP
Servo torque and extension leads
Seriously?
Better get the glue out
Foka 5 Scale Glider
MAAA Scale Nationals
Manoeuvre Selection
June 2025
Calculating cost per FLight
Back up Model
Do I risk aileron flutter?
DA 85 Hawk Speed Six
Great Value all Composite
Valenta Gliders Salto
Dealing with Dickheads (part 1)
Brian Green Trophy
May 2025
Checking out new coreless digitals
A Series Servos
Ditched the FR Sky radio
Bronco
Grahame Goodson does me a favour
Balsa USA SE5a kit
Soft spot for engines
Nostalgia
April 2025
What do about this
Back into a jet
And this
F-100 Super Sabre
And this
GT 2000
And this
Hangar 9 MB-339
Prevously published RCM News magazine articles
Basic and Advanced Flying
When I started competing in 1972 there were two categories in F3a aerobatics. Novice and Expert. You don't have to compete in aerobatics to get better but the basic principles of competition flying start with taking off, maintaining a straight line back and forth and landing on a given spot
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Novice
First Solo
Balsa does not fly better
Expert
Art of Aerobatics
What to do after going solo
Expert and Novice
When Reviews Go Wrong
Actual Reality versus the Flight Sim
Expert and Novice
WG Gilderslag - Stunt Pilot
No worries `it'll buff out
Basic and advanced
Novice and Expert
Flight School (2016)
What to do after going solo
Novice and Expert
Stick and Rudder (2008)
Basics remain the same
Expert and Novice
Heavy Model Permit
Whats' all the fuss about?
Display Director
Sandown F1 Air Race
3rd time I hired a motor racing venue