This comprehensive guide explains the basic concept of radio control and the operating features of key components such as receivers and servos. The author takes you through the main construction stages, from setting up your work area and tool box to essential testing prior to operating. Once you have mastered the basic skills you will be able to start your own model. Choose one of the 15 exciting kits featured in this book, and assembly will be child's play. Ranging from an elegant yacht to an F-1 racing car, the models are accompanied by detailed instructions and step-by-step photographs which illustrate all the techniques needed to build a fully operational model. Invaluable hints on operating your model are given, from the best way to launch a glider, to how to tack and jib and the necessary control stick movements for performing aerobatic maneuvers. A resources section provides valuable information on organizations and the major manufacturers and distributors. Highlighting the fine detailing and realism of today's kits, the superb completed models featured in the gallery sections will inspire you to experiment and explore a wide variety of models. Book jacket.

Providing a clear, conversational approach to radio communications, this sourcebook for pilots and aviation specialists features typical transmissions in order to explain how the air traffic control system works and presents simulated flights to demonstrate the correct procedures. Topics cover every aspect of radio communication, including basic system and procedural comprehension, etiquette and rules, visual flight rules, instrument flight rules, emergency procedures, ATC facilities and their functions, and a review of airspace definitions. Beginners and professionals alike will find this an invaluable resource for communicating by radio.

Now in paperback, this popular manual thoroughly explains all the technical details modelers need to fit and operate model boats with the sophisticated radio control equipment now on the market. Author Hugh Bright first details the equipment needed--"transmitters and receivers, servos and electric motors, batteries, and other power supplies--"and then explains how their equipment can be modified and employed to serve various functions. Weather a modeler wants to simply propel a small tug or add fire-fighting equipment, control the braces of a five-masted barque or fire the torpedoes of a model U-boat, the techniques for installing, modifying, and operating the necessary equipment are fully explained. Filled with more than one hundred fifty illustrations, this book is a "must" for all working model shipwrights.

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