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Fly RC Planes And Electric RC Helicopters Indoors And Outdoors Too. Or Try RC Cars
And RC Toys That Are
Fast And Fun.

PLANS DOWNLOAD

Download plans for the Micro Drake

Build the Micro Drake and fly it in your local gym, from your backyard swimming pool, or even a puddle in your driveway! Download the plans by clicking here.

PLANS DOWNLOAD

Do you want to build a
cute little electric twin
of your own?

Download Omar Forberg's Short Scion plans by clicking here.

O.S. FS .81a 4-Stroke

A brand-new 4-stroke
design from O.S.!
This expanded online
article features additional
specs on the O.S. FS.56a.

Click here for more.

4 Stroke Engine Maintenance

Andrew Coholic presents a fantastic article on tearing down and rebuilding a 4-stroke glow engine. Here is Andrew's complete rebuilding procedures, including cleaning, inspection, reassembly and initial test running and setup. Click here to read!

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FLY RC Exclusive
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Hirobo SRB Quark

Thunder Tiger Mini Titan E325

Here's Tony Yap's full review of this remarkable machine. To read it click here

free downloadable plan

Flying Styro DH Mosquito

Featuring realistic retractable landing gear for Hobby Lobby's Flying Styro DH Mosquito, Tom Hunt's article in the January issue of Fly RC references additional downloadable content which is available here.

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Hobby Lobby's FlyCamOne Makes Airborne Video Capture Easy!

The FlyCamOne from Hobby Lobby brings an easy solution to capturing airborne video with a system designed for RC pilots. Small and light, it can be used on just about any model, from park flyers on up to giant scale.

Click here for details

free downloadable plan

Lanzo Bomber
(available as a 5.7MB downloadable
PDF file or a ZIP file of tiled PDFs to
print the full size plan on 12 letter
size sheets)

Another in Leon Shulman's series of foam old timers, Chester Lanzo's Lanzo Bomber is one of the most popular and successful old timers out there.

Click here to Download this free PDF plan

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Electric Ducted
Fan Buyers
Guide

Get with the
jet set!

The editors of Fly RC have
prepared an Electric Ducted
Fan Buyers Guide for the
October 2007 issue of Fly RC.
The Guide includes 28 leading
electric ducted fan jets. Whether
you fly at the local park or the local
RC club field, this Guide will help
you get started in this exciting new category. continued

Glow Engine Maintenance - Disassembly, Bearing Replacement and General Cleaning
Andrew Coholic discusses how to overhaul a basic two-stroke glow engine - by disassembling an O.S. .46 SF, cleaning the various parts, doing an inspection and replacing the bearings before reassembling and test running the engine. The techniques shown are applicable to any brand of engine.

Anderson Powerpole Installation Secrets

Anderson Powerpoles are among the safest, most reliable and useful of all connectors for electric-powered airplanes.

Powerpoles can convey current bursts of up to 100+ amps and can be run continuously at currents of up to 60 amps if well assembled.

click here to read this article

bonus online content

Blue Flash Materials List And Cutting Guide

A materials list and downloadable cutting guide (PDF format) to accompany the free pull-out plan found in the July 2007 issue of Fly RC.

bonus online content

Trimming Your
Aerobatic
Airplane by Scott Stoops

This extension
is based
on an
article
that appeared
in the May 2007
issue of Fly RC

continued

bonus online content

In the March 2007 issue of Fly RC we featured a wing washout assembly jig designed by Pat Tritle.

This jig is indispensable for rigging struts for smaller models, and can be scaled for larger ones as well. The best part is that it can be built quickly and inexpensively with basic hand tools.

Click here to download a PDF file with full size templates

online article

Spektrum DX7 2.4GHZ
Full-Range Radio
System
by Scott Stoops

I hesitate to describe any RC
product using the term
"revolutionary", but in the
case of the new Spektrum
DX7, it is perfect to describe a
product that has the potential to
fundamentally change the
world of RC. continued

online article

VeraTech Aero's Phantom Sentinel—Novel Flying Machine Planform

It’s not often that an entirely new flying machine concept is invented, and it’s even rarer for a brand new idea to be given practical expression in a short period of time with tangible, real world benefits, yet that’s what VeraTech Aero has accomplished.

This patented aircraft design may seem faintly reminiscent of the free flight powered blade designs from decades ago—or you may see a kinship to the boomerang or prehistoric battleaxe—but the Phantom Sentinel is fundamentally new. The first new flying machine design, arguably, in the better part of a century. continued

September 2008

FREE Plan Download!
Build the Short Scion and
Micro Drake

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1/2A Engine Review
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