Wow! Thanks to Steve and Tom at Schwanke-Kasten Jewelers for the generous donation to the Astrowings Fun Fly Raffle. The Tag-Heuer Aquaracer watch is valued at $1,600! You can’t win unless you buy a raffle ticket. Let me know if you need tickets. A buck each or 6 for $5.
The Astrowings Fun Fly has been [...]

I am always looking for a good deal on rechargeable AA batteries. I use them in about half a dozen RC car transmitters and also build flight packs for my RC airplanes from them. When I see a deal like All-Batteries.com has I jump on it! They are offering AA 2600mAh High Capacity NiMH Rechargeable [...]

I got back late Monday from the LEG Slopefest in Kansas. What a great time. if you are a slope soaring enthusiast I’d get ready for the 2009 version (2008 will be the bi-annual Soar Utah event and Jack is running opposite it.)
We had great weather but a bit light on the wind. That was [...]

Well, on the first day I drove, to Virginia, then to the Carlisle, PA for the Polecat Aero Challenge.
So, on the second day of my summer vacation, I woke up. I went down to the flying field to fly my DLG. Then I landed out. Well, not too often and the Polecat Aero Challenge was [...]

I wrote a little blurb about a question we get asked often at the slope when we are flying our slope gliders, “do those things have motors?”. It seems to be a great way to get the conversation going about how slope soaring works. Check it out if you are interested.

The Soar Milwaukee site is up and running. I am still working on some features but mostly gathering content. Soar Milwaukee is the website for the Milwaukee Soaring Group, an AMA chartered model aircraft flying club.
As part of getting the club going again I set up a Flickr Group for posting photos of RC soaring [...]

I did a guest column for Dave Garwood’s Slope Soaring section of the February 2007 AMA Magazine Model Aviation. It is mostly about the trip Dave Kramer and I made to Soar Utah 2006 over the Labor Day weekend. In true Slope Safari from we explored along the way and found several flying spots to [...]

I’ve been working on the editing and getting this project ready for distribution for about a year and a half! Jack Cooper of Leading Edge Gliders and I shot the original footage during the Summer of 2005 I believe. I had to cull over 30 hours of footage from 2 cameras into the finished [...]

I still like the idea of a slopeflyer pocast so I did a brief version that is now posted at:
http://www.slopeflyer.com/podcast/
Posting quick blurbs like this one are sure quicker to do than a more produced version like #5!
I need a schedule to stick to.

Arthur’s LS-4

Originally uploaded by gasmith.

Just to get me in the mood for Soar Utah 2006, coming up over the Labor Day Weekend, I found a few photos from the 2004 event. Soar Utah is a bi-annual event and one of the best slope soaring get [...]

If you’ve got QuickTime here are a couple of links to teasers for the upcoming movie Jack Cooper and I are making about the building of an LEG Warbird slope soaring plane.
http://www.slopeflyer.com/videos/LEG-2.mov
http://www.slopeflyer.com/videos/LEG-5.mov
This project has been in the works for close to a year and the light at the end of the tunnel, if not blinding, [...]

I’m down at my friend Jim’s with a dozen or more avid rc sailplane pilots having a mid-winter get together. We are even getting some flying in! Dave and I have been to the Saylorville Dam a couple of times for some slope soaring and the flying was good but pretty cold. Especially today with [...]