[rcsoaringdigest] R/C Soaring Digest Volume 36 No. 1

Phil Davy and Steffen Peters launch a six meter Arcus RC sailplane at Torrey Pines Gliderport. Dog Shelby in chase. (image: ©2014 Ian Cummings Photography. All rights reserved. Used here with kind permission.)

January, 2021 Volume 36, No. 1

After a two year hiatus, the R/C Soaring Digest is back! Although we were smoothing out a few little wrinkles this time 'round, in the future the 'index email' (better name TBD) will be the first notification of a new issue. You can expect it to come out the day each new issue is released. Without further ado, here's what we have lined up for you for the January issue: click on any of the stories below, and you will be taken directly to it.

Contents

In The Air Welcome back. We really missed you. Terence C. Gannon Jan 6 · 4 min read I am both humbled and honoured — and a little nervous — to bring you the very first issue of the NEW R/C Soaring Digest. Officially, this is Volume 36, Number 1 which means that RCSD published for an unbroken run of over 400 issues sweeping across 35 years concluding in December of 2018. Most recently, it was very ably published by Bill and Bunny Kuhlman... Spencer Lisenby Clocks Record-Breaking 882 km/h at Parker Mountain The dynamic soaring legend notches the bar up. Again. The NEW RCSD Staff Jan 29 · 2 min read In a remarkable advancement of the state-of-the-art Spencer Lisenby, the renowned practitioner of the dynamic soaring (DS) flight regime, has broken the outright speed record for a model aircraft. On January 19th, 2021 Lisenby's Kinetic Transonic DP hit 882 km/h (548 mph) at the famed Parker Mountain location... Seven Stages of Slope Evolution Will the circle be unbroken. Dave Garwood Jan 29 · 8 min read This article proposes a taxonomy of seven developmental stages that we have seen in slope soaring pilots as they progress through the hobby/sport. It is offered for the review and reflection of readers, and we hope that others will contribute to scholarly research and scientific knowledge in this area of study... Two Days of Sublime Soaring on the Great Orme A full report of the UK's Power Scale Soaring Association Fly-In, 5th/6th September, 2020. Phil Cooke Jan 29 · 10 min read 2020 has been a very odd 'stop/start' sort of season with no planned flying events running at all until July due to the Covid-19 situation. We've since run a couple of quite low-key events — with some good PSS flying achieved at the Orme but very little at the Lleyn due to high pressure conditions — this weekend certainly made up for our losses... German Engineering. Made in the USA.WindyHillHobbies is the new company in the R/C space started by Martin Hempel and his wife Viola out of the Bay Area. They released their first RC glider, the 60" S1 Swift, in the Fall of 2020. It comes as a kit which implements an innovative combination of EPP, composites, wood and 3D printed plastic making it a very practical and high performance design. Check it out!   Sponsored Champion of Something Dad did his fair share of dreaming big. Particularly when it came to his kids. Terence C. Gannon Jan 29 · 10 min read On a whim in the summer of 1976 — no doubt in part because he wanted to drive his shiny silver Alfa Romeo on the twisty and dangerous road through the mountains — my father suggested I have a stab at the Model Aeronautics Association of Canada National Championships held that year in Calgary, Alberta... Community The many ways for RCSD readers to keep in touch. The NEW RCSD Staff Jan 29 · 8 min read There have never been so many ways to connect online and we are committed to be on those social networking platforms where significant numbers of RCSD readers can be found. We attempt to use each platform in a distinct way so that we are simply not repeating content from one platform to another... Champion of Something Steps, guidelines and a few Pro Tips for authors. The NEW RCSD Staff Jan 6 · 8 min read The NEW R/C Soaring Digest is a reader written publication to which any and all are invited to contribute. Here's an outline of the basic steps... The Trailing Edge What's coming up in the next issue The NEW RCSD Staff Jan 27 · 2 min read In The Trailing Edge, the article which will wrap up the current issue of R/C Soaring Digest and foreshadow the next, we hope to find a particularly inspiring image to send readers on their way 'til next month. Perhaps it was beginners luck, but we think we found an absolute dandy our first time out...

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