This new DVD, High Performance Thermal Soaring, has been in the works for sometime, a sequel of sorts to the Secrets of Thermal Soaring how-to.
High Performance Thermal Soaring was well into production when something AMAZING happened. . . . . . . . . . . .
If you fly enough, you are going to have emergency situations arise, just like if you were flying a real aircraft. While full-scale pilots practice for inflight emergencies, most RC pilots don't, and when stuff happens, they panic and crash.
I have posted a bunch of cool wallpaper images that you can download for free. The 13 choice images are from my visit to the 2007 JR Aero Tow event, and as you can guess, all the photos are of big scale planes. The images are available in 1024 and 1280 pixel sizes. You can browse and download them from my QuickTime movie page Here. While you are at it, might as well view all of the nice video clips on that page. The images are from my new scale DVD, The Best of Scale Soaring.
The folks at RC Soaring Digest have made available some vintage issues of the famous Slope Soaring News, a small magazine dedicated to California slope soaring published in the late 1980's. The 2 issues up are in PDF format, and you can download them HERE. They are worth a read, these guys were inventing everything we know and fly today.
What a difference 20 years makes in soaring.
I will donate up to 10% of this week's sales for to help the US
F3J team get to Turkey for the FAI Worlds.
I have a goal of donating at least $300.00, but that means you guys have to step up and get some of the DVDs you have been needing, wanting, yerning to get.
How about the new Scale Soaring DVD, Performance Tuning,
or the Radio Clinic For Sailplanes? You can get 3 DVDs for $64.95, or 5 for $99.95.
Order this week, May 12-16th, to count towards the donation goal.
Order Online Here:
http://radiocarbonart.com Toll-Free Order Line: 888-834-2261 M-F. 10 to 5pm
F3J Team Site: http://www.usf3jteam.com/ Thanks - Paul & Aimee
Martin Weberschock set a new F3B speed record with a 12.9 second run. Cool thing is there is a nice online video which shows the whole run including launch. There are very few good videos that show F3B flying and this one is good! Check it out HERE:
I am always amazed at how many glider flyers have not heard of Radio Carbon Art and our fantastic line of DVDs. We advertise on most places glider nuts would be lurking yet many just do not know about us.
Would you help us get the word out about our DVDs? I am sure you know a few people who might benefit from our training videos or would be inspired to try soaring if they saw what was possible with today's technology.
E-mail a few buddies a link to our site and our YouTube Soaring Channel. Tell a few friends about us. Anything you could do will help to continue to bring you great products in the future. I won't be happy until the whole world knows how cool RC soaring really is!
URL's to send: http://radiocarbonart.com/ YouTube Video Channel: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=pnaton&p=r
Thanks so much for helping get the word out. - Paul
You can few a few minutes of content from my new DVD, The Best of Scale Soaring. There is a 3 minute clip of Dan Troxell's huge ASW-28 flying with an onboard camera. The next free clip is a excerpt from an interview with Eric Myers and his Turbine (yes jet) powered 1/3 scale Fox. Both the ASW 28 flight and the Fox interview are much longer and there is a full flight demo of the jet Fox on the DVD. Don't be cheap, get the DVD! Its so worth it. Video links after the jump.
I found this cool company who is building this concept plane which uses fish shapes blended with aircraft aerodynamics. Looking for that next unique sloper? Perhaps the Smartfish is it. Check out the short promo video which has a ducted fan RC version flying HERE:
The trailer for my new DVD the Best of Scale Soaring is now available for viewing. Here are some links:
Quicktime version, high rez streaming
WMV 9 version- download file name Scale Soaring Trailer
The trailer does not even do justice to the content of this epic DVD.
Guys slope soar all over the world, but you would not think of the Northern part of South America as being a good place to find good sites. My good friend Dieter Mahlein of Shredair has been visiting Colombia for a few years and exploring the local Andes mountains for flyable hills.
In my new Scale Soaring DVD, one of the featured planes in a 1/3 scale Horton Parabola, one of the many flying wing designs of the genious Horton brothers of Germany.
It's been a ton of work to get done, but my new DVD "The Best Of Scale Soaring is available for purchase.
The film is a collection of the best scale soaring footage I have collected over the past 3 years. I have captured a collection really extraordinary flights of really big planes flown by some of the best pilots in the world.
Our new Radio Clinic DVD has been very popular, so popular in fact that it set a sales record for copies sold in 6 months! Thanks to all of our customers who have purchased this DVD and our other How-To instructionals. With out your continued support, well, we would be doing other things instead of bringing you these helpful products. If you would like to get inspired to get to the next level of radio programming no matter what brand you own, try this DVD. With a 30 day money-back guarantee, why not?
I like all things gliding and I am really excited as the FAI Grand Prix cup is being held at New Zealand's famous Omarama soaring site December 19-24th. This racing event will be covered extensively by video and there will be live feeds available during the event. There is a cool introduction video clip that you can watch online that will give you the flavor of the upcoming event. Check out the video at this LINK The video viewer is in the left column. Very cool stuff, its great to see gliding starting to hit the main stream media. Watching that clip gets me pumped about soaring!
You can get a FREE DVD from Radio Carbon Art with a minimum order and this offer is good until Christmas day. If you order just 2 or more DVDs, you can get another free, which can be up to a $29.95 value. Order any 3 DVDs for only $64.95, and get a fourth free, or get any five for $99.95, and get the sixth free. For more details and to order, go to the Special Deals page at: http://radiocarbonart.com/Pages/specials.html. This is a great oppourtunity to get Radio Carbon Art's great training films at a GREAT price. Again, offer ends Dec.25th.
Imagine if you could become your slope glider, free to fall across the edge, at high speed and full rate of decent. Some guys are exploring this idea insane as it may be. With wing suits, its possible to fly like a sloper, though they have yet to achieve better than 2:1 glide ratios. With some equipment evolutions, who knows what might be possible? Human DS? Check out this video of some extreme wing suit cliff soaring (falling?). If I did not have a family and valued my life a little less than I do now, I'd be doing human slope gliding.
http://www.biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=4262
I have lots of movie trailers and clips available on my video pages off the www.radiocarbonart.com website, but you might want to check out my personal video clip collection on YouTube. There are some clips that are only there, and the flash-based videos are easy to play on any system though broadband connections would help. Go to this link to see the 40 or so clips I have available: http://youtube.com/profile_videos?p=r&user=pnaton&page=1 You can purchase DVDs you might like from the Radio Carbon Art website. Enjoy!
If you are like me and have a full life's schedule to deal with, you may find little time available to build those nice models you have in the shop. Personally, I would rather fly than build though I like both. These days it just might be worth it to have some one else build for you, but who would you trust? I have a guy, and his name is Dave Hauch. Dave is a pro builder, and has built hundreds of top end planes for customers around the world. Dave is the kind of guy who is meticulous, even anal, about doing installs right, and he will build your plane better and faster than you ever could. Check out Dave's business site at http://www.rc-builds.com/.
I have a few building projects for the fall. First is a new Onyx JW from Soaringusa.com. This is a TD/F3J ship with a custom wing designed by Joe Wurts. Kind of a merge of an Icon and Supra planform. Should be a cool machine and the price point is below most high perf planes out there. I posted some Onyx build pictures on RC groups at this link: Onyx Build. (Update: this plane is insane! 25 minute maiden flight, great L/D, very floaty, amazing handling, a keeper.)
Second new plane is the new Lightspeed HLG from www.rcbuilder.com. This high aspect, really light Super Gee-based glider should build out to about 7.5 oz., perfect for those light east coast lift days. I will post more about these new ships in the future.
I just found this link to some great footage taken with micro cameras strapped to a slope soaring Golden Eagle. The clips are on the Discovery Channel website, here is the link: http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/spyonthewild/birdtech/birdtech.html
The filmmakers used a trick micro wave (high power) transmitter to get some amazing air shots. Many of the clips show the eagle's wings changing in flight. If you are an aerodynamics freak, be sure to check out the clips.
We now have a toll-free telephone number for our business. Our new number is 888-834-2261. You can call us during business hours to order DVDs or for customer service issues. Hours are 10 am to 5pm Eastern Time, M-F.
I went to the Polecat Challenge in Carlisle, PA as a visitor, as we had just moved 10 days earlier from Oregon to Lewisburg, PA which included a 3200 mile drive in my Eurovan with 3 cats boxed in the back. Photos link at the end of the post.
After a very hectic few months moving and getting life set up again on the East Coast, I have found the motivation to add new content to the Glidefast Journal. Look for new posts and more timely updates. Visit the Glidefast pages soon. - Paul Naton
Radio Carbon Art will be moving to our new location in Pennsylvania shortly (yes, we are shifting coasts) and we will be shut down until June 5th. You can still order online as usual, just our next shipping date will be delayed until June 5th. We will still get e-mails and will respond to customer service issues as we can. If you need products faster, visit one of our authorized dealers, which are all listed on our regular web site.
Our new local is much bigger than our current studio and we will be expanding our business and adding some cool new technologies to speed up the production cycle. Cool new DVDs to come......We will be back online soon. -- Paul Naton
Read an extensive interview with Radio Carbon Art's founder and pro flyer
Paul Naton (hey, that's me!) at the Jart World web site. Reed Sherman conducted the interview which covers a wide variety of soaring subjects and history. Read the entire interview at this link: http://www.jartworld.com/jartworld_pgs/inter_naton.html There are interviews with other soaring stars to read as well.
I just got notice that JR/Spektrum, the first company to release 2.4 gigahertz radio systems, will be releasing plug-in modules for existing 72mhz 9303 and 10x series radios. Read further to see the picture of the products.
Continue reading "New 2.4 ghtz Modules For Existing Radio" »
An incredible story of a Paraglider pilot taken up a thunder storm at the Worlds in Australia.
