The New RC Soaring Digest | May, 2023 | Vol. 38, No. 5

[The New RC Soaring Digest]

The May 2023 issue is out. It's your monthly dose of commercial-free RC soaring journalism from around the globe including (click any article title to read):

The Launch Zone

• In The Air — Open cockpit flying just four feet off the ground. — Terence C. Gannon
• Letters to the Editor — The coming regulatory storm knows no borders? — The New RC Soaring Digest Staff
• Silent Arrow® Successfully Tested by US Special Forces — Recently declassified material reports test program conducted at United States Army Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. — The New RC Soaring Digest Staff
• Cool New Stuff — Three great gliders, a gadget to carry them in and a mug to toast bringing ‘em back in one piece. — The New RC Soaring Digest Staff

Features

• Project ALTius — Part IV: An extended essay to help see the big picture. — Tiberiu Atudorei
• Twist Distributions for Swept Wings — Part 4: The effect of lift distribution and aileron configurations on adverse and proverse yaw, and using bell-shaped lift distribution to reduce induced drag. — Bill Kuhlman
• Calculating Laminate Thickness — Figure it out before you start unrolling carbon cloth and mixing resin. — Rachael Geerts
• F3F—in Black and White — How I planned a photo essay on Instagram. — Michael Shellim

Ongoing Series

• Condor Corner — Glider flight simulation–for safety’s sake. — Scott Manley
• Soaring the Sky Podcast — E064: Soaring In Paradise With Aerobatics Gliding Team Member James Alaggio — Chuck Fulton
• Center Between Two Holes — Here I am stuck in the middle with you. — Tom Broeski

Retrospectives

• Manfred Derschug — A retrospective on the designer and his legendary Brillant V. — Jan Sime
• The History of Electric Flight — Part I: Pioneers Colonel H. J. Taplin and Fred Militky — Mike Goulette
• Glider Patents — US 2019/0318296 A1: System and Method for Performing Precision Guided Air to Ground Package Delivery — The New RC Soaring Digest Staff
• Stamps That Tell a Story — Philatelic Finland. — Simine Short

That’s a Wrap!

• The Trailing Edge — So when do new issues come out, anyway? — The New RC Soaring Digest Staff

It’s FREE. We hope you enjoy it and thank you so much for reading.

Terence C. Gannon
Managing Editor
The New RC Soaring Digest
https://new.rcsoaringdigest.com