RE: RC magazines rant...
rctrax
I would agree to an extent that modeling is about emualating full scale flight (scale models only). But, model aviation has always set the pace for full scale.
Leonardi DaVinci, and other great inventors were flying model airplanes hundreds of years before manned flight happened. also, models are used to devolop full scale planes.(most notably today would be the scram jet, it is being devolped using R/C. once it is perfected, we will have full scale hypersonic planes!)
So, to me, model aviation is not about emulating full scale flight. It is about doing things with planes that real planes can't do yet.
The technology that we develop benefits full scale much more than full scale benefits us.
Doug