[rcsoaringdigest] The New RC Soaring Digest | December, 2021 | Volume 36, No. 12

For the December issue, we're once again featuring the photography of Alexandre Mittaz, accompanied this time by his friend AlainR. This beautiful winter scene was taken near Bern, Switzerland on January 10th of this year.

December, 2021 Volume 36, No. 12

We have lots of other great articles for you this month—we encourage you to click any of the stories below to go straight to that article and start reading...

Contents

In The Air December and the annual rite of Wright-mas. Terence C. Gannon Dec 1 · 2 min read "You see, after reading Taylor's book and its coverage of the early pioneers of aviation, the...festival on the 25th came in a dim and distant second place to a much more significant event occurring eight days before. On my calendar that was, of course, Wright-mas..." Silent Arrow® Wins New US Air Force Contract Significant order placed for smaller scale, 'swarm' variant of the GD-2000 precision guided cargo delivery glider. The NEW RC Soaring Digest Staff Dec 1 · 3 min read "In a story RC Soaring Digest has been closely following since March of this year, Silent Arrow® of Irvine, California just announced a significant new contract with the US Air Force based on a new variant of their commercially successful GD-2000 cargo delivery glider..." Letters to the Editor So what's in the ol' mailbag this month? The NEW RC Soaring Digest Staff Dec 1 · 2 min read "I particularly enjoyed reading about Peter Garrison, both your reminiscences and his. I passed this on to a good friend that I knew would enjoy those articles, as he and his wife did a circumnavigation in a single engined Piper Comanche a couple of years ago..." The Gull A modern take on a classic. Thomas Martino Nov 25 · 10 min read "The Gull project began on the morning of March 30, 2021. I was talking to some friends in an RC soaring chat room when I learned there would be a scale soaring aerotow event at a field near me in one month's time. I was still furloughed..." We have a special new feature to announce: both English and Japanese versions of our very popular Cover Photo T-Shirts. We're starting with the August issue and will eventually expand to all issues. Be the first to have one! Check them out in the RCSD Shop.   Sponsored Shinobi | A Home-Grown Moulded Fuselage Part I: The Urge James Hammond Nov 30 · 9 min read "I believe that many of you dearly beloved readers have often thought of making your own-design composite model fuselage. Looking at a model you might think: 'well if I that was a little larger to fit my radio'..." Spanish F5K Championships Taking place in Sevilla on 25th/26th of September, 2021, it was the first F5K national championships ever! Nicolas Ridray Nov 25 · 7 min read "Then Luis Manuel announces it: in 2021, if the damn virus allows us, we will organize a Spanish F5K championship. Friends get ready! He is not a beginner in organizing the first national championships of a new category..." Scheibe-Loravia Topaze 1:4.2-Scale Part I: The Initial Build Chris Williams Nov 30 · 3 min read "The Topaze was built under licence in France as a version of the popular Scheibe SF 27, and took my eye some years ago, culminating in a version scaled to 1:3.5. Three more versions followed over the years until ..." Electricity for Model Flyers Part I: The Basics Peter Scott Nov 30 · 10 min read "More and more flyers are using electric power for the motors in their model gliders and tugs. I can't think why. Can it be because it always works, never needs adjustment and doesn't cause noise problems..." Is your publication locked up in old media and traditional distribution methods? Would you like to relaunch as a 'digital first' publication like RC Soaring Digest? We did it for them and we would love to help you, too. For more information, please visit our website.   Sponsored From Whence Came the Windsong...and Other Thoughts What's with all the mullets and Phil Collins' songs? Because suddenly, it's 1982. Bob Dodgson Dec 1 · 6 min read "After introducing the Camano 100 kit in 1986, to replace the Todi, I was ready to seriously consider a replacement kit for the Maestro line which was first introduced in 1974. Originally I had favored using the Maestro fuselage..." Soaring in the Rockies My summers of avalanche chutes, Grizzly Bears and slope soaring the Columbia Icefield. Peter Lemieux Dec 1 · 4 min read "the late seventies, after moving to Jasper in the Canadian Rockies, I re-discovered the joy of flying model gliders, and saw the impressive advances in RC technology (no more escapements or rubber bands!)..." 1/3 スケール三田式 3 型改 1 製作記 マルチパートシリーズの第9部。 Norimichi Kawakami Nov 24 · 23 min read 「石膏型は作った当初は水分が蒸発して気化熱を奪うのでひんやりと冷たいのですが、日が経つに従って冷たさが薄れてきました。十分乾燥したと思われたので樹脂を塗る面に離型ワックス（ボンリースワックス）を8回塗りこみました。その上にPVAを塗布しました。」 Getting Your Plug Holes Aligned Looked what I dreamed up. Tom Broeski Dec 1 · 3 min read "I can usually measure pretty accurately, but I was dream building (seem to do it every night) and I came up with this. Take a Post-it® Note or a piece of paper with a very light tack glue or repositionable adhesive..." The Trailing Edge So long 2021, it's been…well…interesting. The NEW RC Soaring Digest Staff Nov 27 · 4 min read "It seems like yesterday we were just kicking off the New RC Soaring Digest with the January issue and here it is December already. The year 2021 has come and gone. If you were born on January 1st, 2021, that's going to seem like a lifetime. Because it is..."

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