I’m consulting for a company that is building an UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) designed to fly in the stratosphere.
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Imagine this: professionally produced free videos of model airplane reviews, tips and news. Entertaining hosts. A new video posted every couple of days. What’s not to like? As it turns out, plenty.
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Under controlled laboratory conditions, it has been determined that all the damage to model airplanes occurs within one inch of the ground.
But why did it go down in the first place?
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To fly safely, you need at least two out of these three: altitude, airspeed, or brains. If you like to do high speed passes close to the ground, you only have one out of the three.
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This week I talked about pitch stability. Pitch stability is such a big subject that I had to break it up into two “Ask the RCadvisor” segments. This was part one.
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To celebrate the new website and the very recent move to a stable server, I’ve decided to give away RCadvisor logo stickers for free. These were previously only available as part of book orders.
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Website registrations and newsletter subscriptions have been re-enabled. The problems at the data center have been bypassed–permanently. Sorry about the downtime.
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A massive data center outage knocked out my website for a day or so. Read on for more of the gory details.
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Geez, that’s a harsh title. Good news: once I got past the terrible title, I found lots to like about this book.
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A website about full-size sailplanes. They call themselves an online magazine about soaring, sailplanes, and gliding. I just call it great and worth checking out, even if you are not into soaring.
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