Movies Added! Balsa USA’s Stick 40 Plus is the newest incarnation of this time-proven kit-built aircraft. The Stick 40 Plus can be anything the builder wants it to be from a calm Basic Trainer, to a great performing sport aircraft all the way to a full-bore, honking, combat airplane. If you haven’t built a wood kit before, join us On The Flight Line to learn what it takes in our first wood kit review.
Hobby Lobby has done it again. They have introduced a new, 2.4 GHz version of their ever-popular Wing Dragon series. This completely Ready-To-Fly trainer and sport aerobatic Park Pilot airplane now has true fly anywhere capabilities using the new 2.4 GHz technology. Join Bob Karasiewicz at your local Park as he has some fun with this low-cost, RTF airplane.
The new Kyosho RTF Calmato Basic Trainer is a gentle airplane, easy to fly, and features strong construction. Good thing it does because open up that very powerful engine and things get fun quickly. Yet landings are slow enough that you may get tired waiting for the airplane to reach you. Build and fly it along with Bob Karasiewicz On The Flight Line.
Honey, they shrunk the Telemaster! The mighty Senior Telemaster is now a good flying, 47-inch electric powered Park Flyer ARF for only $77. This pocket size airplane is still a Telemaster but it can be flown about anywhere the pilot happens to be. Build and fly it with Bob Karasiewicz in the Ultra-Lite Section.
Movies Added! – A $25 airplane, including the motor, propeller and gearbox, that assembles in a few hours, looks great and flies like an aerobatic wonder, the ElectriFly Flatana is an engineering wonder in foam. It is inexpensive, easy-to-repair and to fly unless you dial up the surface movements. Then it becomes a 3-D performer almost any pilot can fly. Learn about it in Sport Aviator’s Ultra-Lite Section.
The next part in learning basic aerobatic flight is how to group maneuvers together. Learning this basic maneuver sequence increase any pilot’s flying skills and even makes wind flying much easier. Take this Advanced Flight Lesson in the Advanced training Section. Part II, even more advanced flying, is also found there.
Great Plane’s Tiger Moth ARF is a big, beautiful biplane that is more than worth the extra building time all biplanes require. This is an amazing airplane that is beautiful; extra gentle and so easy to fly yet is so aerobatic that it is hard to explain. But we try in Sport Aviator’s “On The Flight Line” Section.
From previous Sport Aviator articles, you learned to fly a roll, the stall turn and a loop. Now see how these maneuvers are put together to improve your flying skills and have fun doing it.
Impressive when done well, the roll is the gateway to whole families of aerobatic maneuvers. This step-by-step approach begins with quick rolls and ends with beautiful horizon-to-horizon slow rolls.
Rudder is important but seldom taught. Why is rudder control critical and how best to learn it? This article covers all the basics and shows some fun ways to learn using that “left stick.”
