Advanced Flight Technologies - January 2014

Written by Patrick Sherman Safety and new technology Read the entire article in the January 2014 issue of Model Aviation. On July 1, 1947, a vehicle, not of this Earth, crashed outside the unassuming town of Roswell, New Mexico—or so it is said. Contrary to the rumors you may have read online, we weren’t actually aboard that craft, but we do feel a certain kinship with its occupants. You see, we are aliens—not to this planet, but to the hobby of model aeronautics. Some of you may see us as hostile or even dangerous, but I assure you that we come in peace, and we very…