26 SZ - 16iZ - 10J
Modes 1 and 2
Clearing out the last remaining radio stock
6K - 6L Modes 1 and 2
10PX - 7XC
4GRS - 3Pv - 3PRK
10PX - 7XC
Surface Receivers
HV drift and other servos
Flying Futaba - Magazine style newsletters
It's about flying, not just for Futaba owners - Download for free in easy to read PDF format
March 2026
Old Fokker edition, a lazy read for the Easter break.
Back to glo with an old fashioned stunter and helicopter. Snapped up one of the last surviving 2015 Sandown F1 Air Race Cassutts, Stunt Pilot Gilderslag fesses up how he shoehorned himself into a Seagull Nemesis, Futaba's A703 73 kg/cm brushless, servo selection, antenna installation
Calibre 60 - OS 61
Classic Pattern Style
Seagull Cassutt - OS GT 60
Air Racer
Internal mufflers in a 60cc Nemesis
Asbestos undies needed
Thunder Tigre Raptor 50 - OS 55
Flybar and Glo Engine
February 2026
Working through unfinished projects continues, Prop Head Teds, Gone Sloping, Flight Training, Thunder Tigre Raptor 50
Fourteen Channels
Glider tug Project
Self launch with ease
Multiplex Lentus
All these RV-8s
What's the go at BADMAC
Futaba 26SZ
Gearing up a few Models
January 2026
Whatever level you aspire too this practial information should help
It's a live document
1st Edition
A basic
Flap Elevator Mix
Which engine
Wish List & Other Projects
Ubiquitous bush plane
Cessna 170
December 2025
What it's all about
Old Fokkers
Blast from the past
1991 F3A World Champs
Quiet news day
Before RPAS
Promoting the hobby
Olgilvy has a few Gems
November 2025
RV-8 and C-170
Flex Innovations
Ready for the next Flight
Leslie V12 Update
Takes to the sky
Project Ugly Stick
Antenna Placement & Failsafe
Range Check
September - October 2025
Preparing for the MAAA Nationals
Competition Flying
Ready to Paint
Mk V canopy replaced
Landing in a Strong Crosswind
Repaired Again
Amazing Talent
Could it Race Again?
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
Click each photo to download a previously published article
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