Talk:Radio-controlled glider

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Proposed change

Propose moving 'Slermal' reference from Thermal to Slope. Also will help with stubs when time allows. Emersunn 23:12, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Layout

I think we need to do away with this structure:

Forms of flight
Types

And break it into this:

Thermal RC sailplanes categories: (description of thermal flight)

Handlaunch
Competition - Two Meter, Standard Class, Open Class, RES (winches and hi-starts explained)
Scale (aerotow explained)
Cross Country
Electric launch (F5J)

Slope sailplanes categories: (description of slope flight)

Slope racing
PSS (power scale soaring)
Scale
Dynamic Soaring

Commonm thermal and slope topics:

Building (scratch, kit, arf, rtf)
Materials (balsa, compostite, glues, covering)
FAI competitions (F3F, F3B, F3J etc . . .)
Competitions (local, majors)
Radio gear (TX, RX, servos, flight data recorders)
Ballast Explained
Airfoils (MH, AG, E***, SD****, S****, HQ, RG, polars, Rynolds numbers, aspect ratio, camber and reflex, etc . . .)
Meteorology
Clubs and associations (AMA, FAI, etc)
Batteries
Notable people - (writers, designers, pilots) Thornberg, Drela, Wurts

Expanded

I've had a go at tidying/expanding using some of the thoughts above, article is missing a 'history' section, when did RC gliders start for instance. A 'construction' section would be nice given all the different methods. I have created a Commons category for images and also created a 'navbox' to try and link up radio models in general. Cheers Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 21:19, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]