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Getting Started in Radio Control Airplanes: The Complete Beginner's Guide: The Complete Beginner's Guide [Paperback]

Gerry Yarrish (Author)

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Publication Date: February 2000

The most comprehensive and up-to-date book answers all of the beginning hobbyist's questions about building and flying remote control airplanes. Step-by-step techniques and are illustrated with a wealth of photography and cover all the basics, from choosing and building a first model to covering and finishing it, understanding and installing glow engines, flight basics, and much more.

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Product Details

Paperback: 124 pages
Publisher: Air Age (February 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0911295429
ISBN-13: 978-0911295429
Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces

Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #226,048 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Geting Started in Radio Control Airplanes., July 5, 2000

Charles W Clark (Chattanooga, TN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Getting Started in Radio Control Airplanes: The Complete Beginner's Guide: The Complete Beginner's Guide (Paperback)

Yes, this is a great book for the beginner as well as an advanced flyer, because it is packed with a great deal of info. Gerry makes the book very readable and illustrates it well. I've enjoyed reading this book, because Gerry gets detailed without dragging out subjects or boring with too much wordy material. It even has a useful address and website section for extra info and clubs. Thanks for a great resource material. I would highly recommend this book to anyone with intrest in R/C Airplanes...but doesn't know where to look...Well here's your Start. Great Work ! (:

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4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good book., February 12, 2003

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Very useful information. The section on covering was a real lifesaver! It has good info also on basic flight and lots of useful tips to a beginning modeler. I really liked this book.

The only reason I didn't give it five stars was I felt it didn't quite cover the topics in quite enough depth. A little more detail and this would be a perfect book.

But still very worth the money.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Out of date, January 23, 2008

Cliff The Engineer (Fremont, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This was a pretty good book, but the information now is quite dated. LiPo batteries and brushless motors are the standard now, electrics have come a long way.

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Published 4 months ago by David Sachse

4.0 out of 5 stars good but needs updating.
I liked the books broad coverage and appreciated the authors genuine love for the hobby. Whose idea was it to put the skinny model on the cover? Read more

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Published on November 18, 2008 by John R. Phillips

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I believe that in the context of getting started, this book has given a nice solid ground of many things, although it doesn't contain latest updates,... Read more

Published on August 14, 2008 by Mohamed Mahmoud

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