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Hacker-Model® Foam Construction Premium Performance

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Go extreme indoors or out! Get your hands on one of five supreme new Hacker-Models. Low weight, high strength EPP foam construction makes every Hacker-Model supremely durable and maneuverable. Precision F3P pattern flying demands the exacting maneuverability of …

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Flyzone Rapide™ Brushless Glider Rx-R

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The glider for easy cruising or cutting loose! The Rapide Rx-R is ideal for the intermediate pilot who’s mastered the basics and ready for new excitement. Gentle and predictable handling makes it ideal for a relaxing day of …

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Fixed Wing FPV Buyer’s Guide

Love them or hate them, drones are everywhere these days and while they may have drawn a bit more attention and scrutiny to the RC airplane pilots, they have also brought us FPV. First Person View flight from a 250 quad racer is exhilarating to say the least

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Hitec RDX1 – AC/DC Battery Charger/Discharger

Introducing the powerful and portable RDX1, the latest addition to Hitec’s charger line. The RDX1 is an AC/DC ultra-performance microprocessor-controlled battery charger/discharger with management features suitable for all popular chemistries. Its sleek tower design allows easy front-loading plug-in convenience …

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Crossover Tips & Tricks

At the risk of sounding too cliché, getting older really does make you wiser. Honestly, it’s a matter of experience. Over the years I have made so many mistakes and wasted so much time and money that I was finally forced to find solutions to my modeling concerns. Now, while much of what follows is what I personally discovered

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Ultimate Bipe GP/EP ARF

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A superior sport aerobat! Designed for everyday aerobatics, the 45.5” span Ultimate Bipe is an impressive show-stopper! Whether you equip it with glow or electric power, you can expect solid tracking and excellent performance from this outstanding ARF …

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Esprit Tech Jeti DC-24 Radio System

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The time has come. Esprit Tech has reached final steps in the FCC process and the DC-24’s have shipped from Jeti Model! We have waited just as patiently as you, and are very excited to see these coming in. …

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Scaling Out The Atomik RC/Sonic Modell B-17 Pt. 1

Recently I devoted several weeks of workshop time to determine just how far I could go with fiberglass-and- paint resurfacing and refinishing of a typical large foam/ARF electric powered RC scale warbird…in this case the 61” wingspan J-Power P-51-D available from Atomik RC.

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SkySmoke: New Smoke Fluid From Sullivan Products & SuperDri

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Sullivan Products is proud to announce a joint partnership with SuperDri, the leader in full scale smoke oil. Sullivan Products will be marketing full scale smoke fluid to the RC market, S760-SkySmoke will be blended and bottled by …

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Cut A Perfect Cowl

Everyone knows that the “A” in ARF stands for “Almost”. For some kits, that can be a pretty big “A”! While the majority of ARF’s have most of the major components built, there are significant variations in the amount of time and skill required to finish them well. There is also the issue of instruction manuals being, shall we say, “loosely” translated Chinese building instructions.

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Hitec Power Peak D7 AC/DC Charging Station

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Hitec continues to bring you exemplary power and convenience with our latest Power Peak D7 AC/DC Charging Station. Armed with two independent 200-watt output ports, producing up to 20 amps of charge current each, the Power Peak D7 …

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A Soldier’s Journey Into RC

We all have a story of how we got into flying RC aircraft . For many of us it started as a child-hood love for toy airplanes. Others jumped into it with our fathers, mothers or grand-parents. Most of us enjoy the hobby as something to do in our free time to relax, but for others, it’s been a less common journey

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Video: E-flite Carbon-Z P2 Prometheus Bipe In Action!

Our own Josh Bernstein reviewed this exciting offering from E-flite in the September issue of FlyRC magazine. Words simply do not do this amazing model justice. And so we give our readers a video of Josh wringing this …

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