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There is a great article in the 8/1/2014 issue called "Fixed Is The New Retractable". It has good information about things like round versus airfoiled landing gears, and a nice bit on oleo struts and trailing link landing gear.

I'm putting RoboStruts on my giant scale P-51 and now I feel even better about that.

I also recommend Plane & Pilot [Kindle Edition]

I started flying PC Flight Simulators in 1995 and an article by Budd Davisson got my wife to let me go flying fullscale. It talked about flying fullscale can re-energize you. It did for me. I liked the flight sims, but my first flight with a CFI was in marginal VFR and he kept telling me to get my head out of the cockpit because I was focused on scanning the gauges.

I had many great times at Wilgrove Airport and when I couldn't get my medical, I kept flying either with a CFI or a licensed pilot. I was almost a hanger rat and flew a lot of planes with a lot of people. I have immense respect for guys like Jim Katz that fly the "big iron".

I call flying the ultimate video game with the ultimate penalty for failure.

But Plane and Pilot is a very good magazine for casual pilots and people who fly models. Budd wrote an article about R/C and said if the kids can do it certainly I can. He then went on to say it was one of the most challenging things he had done. That article got me back into R/C. And I switched from mode 1 to mode 2.