It starts with a great shot of Greg (Slopeflyer.com) and his tiny sun flying on Lake Michigan.
Then Jerry Slates has some really nice coverage of the Los Banos Scale Fly-in, some very cool shots of scale planes flown at the event.
'On the Wing' (Tail Less sailplanes only!) has an excellent article on swept versus 'plank' wings. Its really detailed, getting into flaps on wings, and drawings of various tailless sailplanes.
Your's truly gets the inside and outside stuff on that new Sportube snowboard case for sailplane transport.
Steve Savoie (another slope addict) writes about some upgrade mods to the DAW P51 foamie. I don't know if you guys know the plane but I saw Dave from Dave's Aircraft works, thermal it way up in dead Kansas slope air! Pretty amazing foamie!
Dave Register gets into the science end of foils, reviewing Mark Drela's X-foil Airfoil Analysis program. Lots of charts, graphs and multi-sylable words that you engineer types like to see.
On the slope side of fun is Greg Smith's column "The Sloper's Resource", Greg has the best slope website in the Midwest, and he finally decided to step up to the plate, joining past greats our or hobby, and signed on as an official columnist. RCSD " The Journal for RC Soaring Enthusiasts" was started as an academic publication for the advancement of our hobby through sharing ideas and innovations. Not your candy colored pablem of advertising with some text on the sides, RCSD has been the resource for builders and creatitivity for over twenty years. Way to go Greg!
Oh yeah his column....:-) He reviews a neat new foam DS machine in the vein of the JW, called the Gulp. Highly pre fabed, this plane looks good and rocks according to Greg's experience... That's not all he reviews, on the other side of the spectrum of sloping, he covers the Wizard Compact 2, arguably the premier speed machine.
Then there are the usual stuff ....no no adverts for park flyers, but there are announcements...FULL PAGE for the MidSouth and SVSS events coming up. You club guys holding big events are missing the boat! It doesn't cost a thing to get your event highlighted the same way!
You guys who have some cool innovation should consider publishing it in OUR magazine, the only RC Sailplane Mag written by us for us.
If you think all that stuff is pretty cool... last month was just as good!
Gordy
Louisville, then PA, then Toronto
