Giant-scale AeroScout Takes to the Sky

By Richard Machin | richard@readytext.comThe successful maiden flight of a new AeroScout is pretty commonplace and hardly news. But what if the airplane has a 14-inch wingspan, runs on 12S power, and was scratch-built by a first-time foamy builder? Chris Randall, nice president of the Marymoor RC Club in Redmond, Washington, was encouraged by the popularity of the AeroScout among youth members, and by their enthusiasm for experimental projects of all sorts. He said that the availability of online resources to help identify solutions for design and build challenges helped make his giant…