Thermic 100

Sheet Balsa Gliders

Compilation of Crashes

Model Flying in Eire

Vintage Gliders

Photos from the SAM 26 Spring Contest Taft March 2012 courtesy of Ned Nevels

Miter Glider

I made one of these years ago

The Raven

One of the many tailless planks designed by Dave Jones of Western Plan Service and published in Model Builder Magazine.

Slope Soaring Vintage Gliders

Windlord Plank

Now a partial kit from Skybench Aerotech the Windlord by Ken Bates.  To see one under construction, click here.

Sailplanes and Rubber models

Video from Volar Libremente

Floh Update

 HI Tom,

 

I got one flight and the glider was all over the sky.  Way too much control with ailerons and rudder.  And way too much control on the elevator.

 

I de-sensitized all the controls.  Big mistake! 

The glider came off the hook and dived straight down to the road.  I tried to pull it out but there was not enough movement in the elevator.  It hit the road straight down.

The nose of the fueslage is damaged.  I might be able to repair it.

 

Even if I can repair it I am not sure how to set up the controls.

 

Bucky

Blog by Radio Carbon Art

The folks at Radio Carbon Art now have their own blog called The Glide Fast Journal

Newsreels from England

Item title reads - A plane tale! Location unknown.

A PLANE TALE

Queen's Prize
Langley, Buckinghamshire.

AIR MODELS' QUEEN'S PRIZE

AIR NEWS - MODEL AIRCRAFT RALLY video newsreel film

AIR NEWS - MODEL AIRCRAFT RALLY

TEST PILOTS JUDGE MODEL PLANE SHOW video newsreel film

 

TEST PILOTS JUDGE MODEL PLANE SHOW

ALL BRITAIN MODEL AIRCRAFT RALLY video newsreel film 

ALL BRITAIN MODEL AIRCRAFT RALLY

Control line bombers

MODEL AIRCRAFT

 

CHILDREN INSTRUCTED (silent)

CHILDREN INSTRUCTED

AIR-MINDEDNESS! (Germany)

AIR-MINDEDNESS!

 

Sailplanes in Ireland

Silent Flight in Ireland click here


Retroplane photo album: here

Academy of Model Aeronautics Museum (Muncie, Indiana)

https://www.youtube.com/p/D6B785920D205780

The Legend of Alfred Beamish

As told by Brooklyn Skyscraper Bobby Langelius.