Talk:Radio-controlled glider

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)

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)