I'm so happy that I'm back among the subscribers to FSM, unquestionably the best RC scale magazine ever! (Well, Precision Scale RC was pretty good, way back when.) What other magazine do you find yourself looking back through 5 year old issues...and still learning something? It might seem expensive compared to other RC mags ("rags" which are 80% ads, 10% ARF reviews, and 5% rehashed content) but in terms of valuable scale modeling information, I'd put one year's subscription to FSM up against 10 years of any other RC mag. I figure it cost me about $90 for the year delivered to Japan. To subscribe I just made a phone call (and provided a visa number).

Sooo happy to be back!

I miss good mags. I still read my AMA and RCMs from the late 70's through 80's. I use to buy FSM when the hobby and stands carried it. I need to subscribe too.

I am subscribed now for 5 or 6 years and still reading tho old issues. [8D] Now I lent them to a friend. (don't hear anything from him the last weeks )

I was trying to be thrifty last year, but it really was false economy. Every dollar I spent on other magazines was a waste of money.

I agree. it's also my favorite. The rest are a waste.

Jim

I dropped my subscription to MAN in favor of Flying Scale Models. best thing I ever did; great magazine.

I have dropped all except the AMA rag of course. I dropped out of the IMAA at the end of last year after 20 years, having decided long ago that other than a quarterly magazine you dont get much for your membership, but kept renewing on auto pilot. I liked RC Report for the unbiased reviews and for watching Dick Petit build models at a furious pace and I still keep in touch with Brian Winch in Oz. As far as FM MAN and the backyard and electric mags I dont have the time to waste. I will admit picking up the Feb 1968 issue if RCM led me into RC, my first trainer (crasher) was a Don Dewey Royal Coachman, what a horrid little airplane. I have enjoyed reading the few RCSMs that I have picked up here and there but just thought it was a bit pricey. I have gotten used to not having piles of old mags around to deal with.
Doc

Thing is I don't think of back issues of FSM as "old mags" at all and they have a place of honor right next to my datafiles!

Of course, the downside of FSM is that as soon as I open the pages, I realized that a scale wannabe I am!

Check out THESE ready-to-cover models!

http://rubberpoweredmodelairplane.blogspot.com/

(This is one of the links given in the April issue of FSM.)

I also re-upped to FSM after 5 yrs...must say the older issues were much more chucklebut full of scale tid bits with Duncan Hutson's column
and Andy Hutton's scale master builder tips...I still find myself looking at the old ones more than the newer ones ..but its still the best monthly rag on the market.

Hey Don your a linguist of sorts...check out the caption below his SE5 on his site...any idea what this means in English??

"Even amortiguation systems works the same way as original" what the @$%^&)*^$@# ????

Thats some amazing work on those beauts...If I only had the time

In past years, when I was a subscriber, I enjoyed Gordon Whitehead's column "Sport Master Scale." I don't know if he's still doing that but it was chock full of good ol' fashioned "do-it-yourself" scale modeling tips. FSM has joined the modern RC world in that they are now including some "ARF scale-up" type articles. All I know is that after looking at any issue of FSM, I'm motivated to crank up the level of my scale modeling!

This is a case of a false cognate between Italian and English. My Mexican wife says stuff like this all the time. The Spanish version of this word would be "amortiguación" and refers to "dampening" or in the context of aircraft undercarriage "suspension." The English equivalent, which retains the same core meaning of "buffering," is "amortization" is used in finance to mean the slow paying off of a debt.

http://www.investorwords.com/200/amortization.html

But for those of you wanting to become amateur philologists, I heartily recommend "Hot for Words!" [8D]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ5vx...feature=relmfu

Um...I assume the intended term here was chock-a-block. But, hey, I kind of like your version!

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/chock-a-block

You really shouldn't watching " Hot for Words".....rather get back to your C1 and watch " Hot for WWI Birds"[X(]

I count it as "academic research." As for the CI, well maybe my renewed subscription to FSM will get me going!