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Scale Flight Routines

For a winning combination By Stan Alexander As seen in the April 1998 issue of Model Aviation. (Top left): A slow airplane like Gary Allen’s Tigermoth requires a set of maneuvers flown by the full-scale aircraft. (Bottom right): Preflight preparation is very important. Jerry Caudle and Garland Hamilton double-check everything on Jerry’s BVM F-80. If you’ve ever been to a Scale meet, watching a champion modeler finesse his aircraft through a flight routine, you realize very soon that the pilot knows his aircraft extremely well. There are no unexpected…

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