June 2022
Do You Take Your Dog RC Soaring?
Here at the New RC Soaring Digest, we are dog people. Ironically, we don’t actually have an office dog (or dogs, better yet) but we hope we can put that gross oversight right at some point in the not-too-distant future. In the interim, we can’t help but ooh and aah over photos coming into the office which feature our four-legged friends. They seem to revel in participating in this thing we love to do. That said a dog’s nature is such that, generally speaking, anywhere we’re at is where they want to be, and anything we find amusing they’re at least willing to feign interest, in order to keep us happy. Particularly if it means a decent meal at the end of the day.
Actually, we think that sells dogs a little short. Chasing birds comes pretty naturally, to which any beach hound can attest, as they run themselves ragged chasing seagulls up and down the sand until they can finally run no more and turn to digging holes instead. Given the utter futility of their own efforts, Fideau must think we’ve lost it completely when as soon as their slow-witted, walking-talking-food-dispenser manages to finally capture that rather stiff-looking bird, we turn right around and let it loose again. More puzzling still to the canine-mind must be that having escaped certain death, why the bird insists on flying around for a while and then coming right back again — sometimes landing right in the two-legged’s hands!
“Grab it, man, GRAB IT…and this time don’t let it go!” you can almost hear them say.
Which leads us to our question of the month: what’s your favourite RC soaring photo which also includes at least one dog? If you have one, please consider sending it along so we can feature it in a future issue. If we get enough of them, perhaps we’ll assemble a compilation, and — you never know — we might even offer some sort of prize for whichever most successfully tugs our dog-loving heartstrings.
Coming Up in the Next Issue
We’ve have yet another jam-packed issue coming up with some new contributors we will be introducing for the first time, some continuing series, some legacy articles we’ve carefully curated for you along with our usual ‘bookend’ features. Here’s just a sampling of what’s on offer for June:
From brand new RCSD contributor Jenna Quader, we have Hangar Queen. We guarantee that no matter how unique a colour scheme you choose for your latest project, her designs will top them — candidly, we have never seen anything like these one-of-a-kind flying works of art. Both mind-boggling and very inspiring.
Gary Fogel returns with a write-up of the 2022 International Hand Launch Glider Festival held recently in Poway, California — beautifully detailed and richly illustrated. We’ve also just received word that scale master Vincent de Bode will be back with another one of his amazing articles, this one about the Slingsby King Kite. Ryan Woebkenberg also returns, with an account of his recent business trip to Zurich, Switzerland in Have to Travel and Brought a Sailplane?
We’ll also be featuring the next instalments from both Peter Scott’s wildly popular Electricity for Model Flyers series as well as James Hammond’s Shinobi | A Home-Grown Moulded Fuselage, which is also a fan favourite.
From the RCSD legacy we’re bringing back Curtis Suter’s Tinamou flying wing project — it seems as fresh and relevant today as the day it was written way back in 2008. We’ve been working with Curtis to make the article look it’s absolute best in our digital-first format.
And as usual, we have a few things bubbling around the margins which may bear fruit before the deadline, so you have even more reasons to grab the new issue and dog-ear it from cover-to-cover as soon as it arrives.
What’s New in The RCSD Shop
While it is new to The RCSD Shop, we tend to run a few months behind with our Cover Photo T-Shirts: as such, back in the October 2021 issue we featured the always breathtaking photography of our friends at Speedamigo-Modellflugfilm. In this particular shot their FW-Models LS 6c is captured against that inimitable ‘cielo azzurro italiano’ near Cantiano, Italy. We love the light in this picture — summer with just a tinge of fall. Makes us wish we had it in the store much sooner! Get yours today.
Also, In honour of Part 7 of Norimichi Kawakami’s 1/3 スケール三田式 3 型改 1 製作記 (Mita 3 Production Notes) which appeared in the October issue, we are also providing a Japanese version — be the first kid on the slope to have one.
Don’t Want to Miss June 2022?
It’s out in just a few days, so if you don’t want to miss the June 2022 issue of the New RC Soaring Digest make sure you connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or LinkedIn or subscribe to our Groups.io mailing list. And please share Lift over Drag with your friends because we would love to have them as readers, too!
Until next month, fair winds and blue skies to you all. Now, without further ado—call the dog, then get out there and fly!
©2022 The New RC Soaring Digest Staff
Resources
- St. David’s College Model Flying Club — From their Facebook page: “We are a BMFA affiliated Youth Group based at St David’s College in Llandudno, Wales, UK. We mainly fly gliders off the slope and electric RC from our own flying site.”
