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Scale Aircraft for Free Flight
Eric Coates
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Description for Scale Aircraft for Free Flight
Paperback.
The major difference between free-flight and radio-controlled scale models is that all the adjustments to the flight path of the former must be made before release. Free flight models must be capable of stable flight, whether under power or on the glide, without the need or the opportunity to carry out in-flight alterations. This is a challenge most surely met by lightly loaded, slow-flying models based on full size machines having those characteristics, best typified by early bi-planes.
The major difference between free-flight and radio-controlled scale models is that all the adjustments to the flight path of the former must be made before release. Free flight models must be capable of stable flight, whether under power or on the glide, without the need or the opportunity to carry out in-flight alterations. This is a challenge most surely met by lightly loaded, slow-flying models based on full size machines having those characteristics, best typified by early bi-planes.
Product Details
Publisher
Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
126
Place of Publication
Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854861672
SKU
V9781854861672
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Eric Coates
A leading exponent of scale models with this approach was the late Eric Coates. For many years no event for this type of model was complete without his presence; he was a successful competitor & a pathfinder in the development of greater scale accuracy. His series of articles in Aeromodeller magazine in the early 1970s is still regarded ... Read more
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