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CONTENTS<br />
<strong>Apr</strong>il 2009<br />
Vol. 26, No. 4<br />
3 RC Soaring Digest Editorial<br />
4 My trip to Windward Performance<br />
Hi-tech full size sailplanes. By Scott Fletcher<br />
E-Tsotsi sets new South Africa<br />
10 electric glider XC distance record<br />
The full story by Piet Rheeders<br />
Kinetic 100 does 392 mph<br />
18 on second day of flight<br />
Another DS speed record. By Steven Seim<br />
20 The Modelflight Parkzone Radian Challenge<br />
An electric foamie glider event covered by Greg Potter<br />
24 NASA flying wing model soars to NASM<br />
NASA press release<br />
25 F3K in the USA<br />
The state of the sport and <strong>com</strong>ing attractions.<br />
By Adam R. "Red" Weston<br />
Front cover: Andy Page's Pike Perfect, flaps down, on<br />
approach at 60 Acres South. Photo by Bill Kuhlman<br />
Konica-Minolta Maxxum 7D, ISO 100, 1/640 sec., f8, 500mm<br />
Modifying a Senior Telemaster<br />
for Electric Aerotow 35<br />
By Alexander Breitkreutz<br />
Scale Aerotow at the Woody Fun Fly 42<br />
AMA field, Muncie Indiana, May 29, 30 and 31.<br />
By Gordon Pearson<br />
UAV graduate school opened 43<br />
Air Force Times story<br />
Miramar 2009 44<br />
Argentina! Standard and Minithermal events<br />
covered by Alejandro "@le" Arroyo<br />
Archaeopteryx Avion Associates<br />
aka Vintage Sailplaner 62<br />
Free plans for scale gliders from Jim Ealy<br />
Open International F3J 64<br />
Southern Soaring League, South Australia.<br />
Coverage by Greg Potter<br />
Containers from GetStorganized 82<br />
Back cover: "Inseparable Pair" Photo taken February 22<br />
at Miramar 2009 by Alejandra McGovern.<br />
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, ISO 100, 1/320 sec., f6.3, 300mm<br />
2 R/C Soaring Digest
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