Aerodynamics

Read Radical RC articles on airflow, drag, stalls, wing behavior and the aerodynamic principles that help model aircraft fly better.

AERODYNAMICS – Forces Acting On An Airfoil

A 1957 film from the Department of Defense. I love the visual teaching method used in these early films. Lots to learn here if you wanted to understand the forces on an aircraft.

Today I Was Thinking Of The F-104

I’ve often thought of a bucketlist project of making a slow indoor flyer out of the worlds most improbable subjet, the F-104 Starfighter. There is this problem of driving past one every day on the way into Radical RC. Capt. Joseph B. Jordan, flying a Lockheed...