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RC Plane Lab — 209 episodes

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Ep 209: The Beginner’s Lounge, Trailer Upgrades, and the RACores Yak‑55 Assembly

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Ep 208: 2026 Toledo Wrap up, with Daniel and Reggie

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Ep 207: From Trash to Treasure, New Releases, and Swap‑Meet Fun

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Ep 206: Inside the 2026 Toledo R/C Swap Meet & Expo with Hank Rauhaus

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Ep 205: Farewells, Finds, and a Free BF‑109

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Ep 204: What’s in our Hangar?

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EP 203 - What the Fish??

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Ep 202: The 13th Squadron with Jack and Steve Niezgoda

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Ep 201: 2025 End of Year Wrap-Up, with the Wives!

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Ep 200: Listener Questions and Other Stuff

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Ep 199: Swap Meets and Stuff

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Ep 198: Winter Plans

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Ep 197: REPLAY: Halloween Special; Scary RC Airplane Stories

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Ep 196: AS3X+ with Miguel Alvarez

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Ep 195: Greg Stone, Candidate for AMA President

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Ep 194: The Last Fly-In of the Year... Probably. And Other News... :(

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Ep 193: Let's Talk Vintage!

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Ep 192: Tommy fixes his jet, and other stuff

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Ep 191: It is a crash if it breaks!

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Ep 190: It's not a crash if it doesn't break!

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Ep 189: New Plane Releases, Drone Shows, and Model Aviation Day

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Ep 188: Rain, Rain, Go Away... Little Tommy wants to Fly!

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Ep 187: Man Down! lol

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Ep 186: Rambling on

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Ep 185: 2025 Joe Nall Wrap Up

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Ep 184: The Good, the Bad, and the Muddy; From Joe Nall with Lee and Fitz!

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Ep 183: FrSky Steve

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Ep 182: New Planes, New Radio, New Trailer!

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Ep 181: 2025 Toledo Wrap Up!

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Ep 180: RC Planes for Beginners, Revisited

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Ep 179: Spring's here. Now what?

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Ep 178: Dan Landis from Boomerang RC Jets

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Ep 177: Planes, Boats, and Automobiles

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Ep 176: Henry Rauhaus from the Toledo R/C Swap Meet & Expo

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Ep 175: Snow Way!

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Ep 174: 2025, Here we Come!

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Ep 173: 2024 Year End Wrap Up, with the Wives!

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Ep 172: Catching Up

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Ep 171: A Stik-y Episode!

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Ep 170: You Sunk My Sailboat, with Terry Dunn

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Ep 169: Soft Tires, Soft Landings

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Ep 168: REPLAY: Halloween Special; Scary RC Airplane Stories

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Ep 167: Oops, Dave did it again!

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Ep 166: When are airplane markings offensive?

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Ep 165: Ron Crashes, more maidens, and other things...

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Ep 164: Illini Jets, AS3X+ installs, maidens, and more!

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Ep 163: Tommy visits another hobby shop, and more!

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Ep 162: Dave's Remote ID Module, and other stuff

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Ep 161: Many Maidens and the big Spektrum Update

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Ep 160: MB-339 Maiden, Sullivan RC Products Announcement, and Other Stuff

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Ep 159: The Basics of Fabric Covering

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Ep 158: RC Fest and the Ring of Fire

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Ep 157: Joe Nall 2024 Wrap Up

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EP 156: Let's Talk Swap Meets!

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Ep 155: Ron and Reggie

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Ep 154: Listener Questions

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Ep 153: What the Torc, Man?

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Ep 152: Oh Micro Draco, I couldn't resist

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Ep 151: Tommy feels pity for Ron

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Ep 150: The 150th Episode

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Ep 149: Strip - Repair - Repeat

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Ep 148: 2024, here we come!

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Ep 147: 2023 Wrap up, Featuring our Wives

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Ep 146: Shop Safety

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Ep 145: Tommy’s Back!

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Ep 144: Jet update and other stuff

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Ep 143: Nothing in particular!

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Ep 142: REPLAY: Halloween Special; Scary RC Airplane Stories

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Ep 141: Flaps and Field Boxes

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Ep 140: Reno, Remote ID Delay, Crashes, and the Streator Fly In

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Ep 139: Daniel Taylor

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Ep138: A Dynamic Balsa trip, and the Illini Jets fly in

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Ep 137: AirVenture Wrap-Up

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Ep 136: Spektrum SkyID announced, Ron’s 2 maidens, and Dave crashes!

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Ep 135: Ron got a Twimber! Oh... And Reggie’s Back... :)

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Ep 134: Eli Tow, ARF Bashing, and Other Stuff

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Ep 133: Just the two of us...

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Ep 132: The Joe Nall 2023 wrap up

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Ep 131: Lee and Fitz from The RC Roundtable Podcast at Joe Nall

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Ep 130: Jim and Jeff from the Rhode Island Aeromodelers at Joe Nall

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Ep 129: Tom’s Vintage Airplane Swap Meet Find

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Ep 128: Toledo

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Ep 127: The Unicorn!

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Ep 126: Rob Pemberton

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Ep 125: Let’s talk ARFs!

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Ep 124: Nice Weather, and Listener Questions

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Ep 123: Plans, Planes, and Covering

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Ep 122: Craig Straub

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Ep 121: 2023, Here we come!

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Ep 120: The Wives are back for our Year in Review

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Ep 119: Ali Machinchy - Horizon Hobby Product Developer and Marketing Manager

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Ep 118: Electro Streak Winter Build Announcement, Crash Stories, and New Planes

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Ep 117: Bjorn Baal from RMJ Machine Worx

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Ep 116: Terry Dunn

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Ep 115: An Oopsie, a Crash, and Our Winter Group Build

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Ep 114: We’re Live!

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Ep 113: Reggie’s got a story to tell

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Ep 112: Rain, Rain, Go Away!

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Ep 111: Fly RC Nation, and Listener Questions

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Ep 110: What a week it’s been

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Ep 109: Trevor Furlotte

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Ep 108: We’re Back!!! Again...

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Ep 107: Tony Lewis

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Ep 106: Summer Fun

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Ep 105: Garry Gilbert

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Ep 104: Gasoline Engines

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Ep 103: Steve Hersh

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Ep 102: Matt and Joe from the Aviation RC Noob Podcast

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Ep 101: David Boito, author ”Valley Fliers”

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Ep 100: The 100th Episode!

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Ep 99: Jeffrey Arsenault

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Ep 98: ISDT Air8 charger, BattAir Plugins, and other stuff

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Ep 97: Bob Ferry

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Ep 96: Toledo

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Ep 95: Jim O’Camb

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Ep 94: Inspirations and listener questions

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Ep 93: Reggie’s Back!

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Ep 92: Servo problems and a few Listener Questions

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Ep 91: Dave Taylor

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Ep 90: Discord, Chipmunks, and Tom’s new airplane

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Ep 89: Speak Softly and Fly a Big Stick!

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Ep 88: Kitbashing, and Listener Questions

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Ep 87: What’s your number?

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Ep 86: The Wives are Back... Again!

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Ep 85: Ron and Tom go to a hobby shop.

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Ep 84: Ron and Tom go to a swap meet. What did they get???

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Ep 83: Profile Foamies

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Ep 82: Ron goes to a swap meet, and how to make your landing gear look beefier

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Ep 81: REPLAY: Halloween Special; Scary RC Airplane Stories

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Ep 80: Ron‘s Crashed Extra 300 has been found, Fuel Proofing an Airplane

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Ep 79: Rolls Royce Spirit of Innovation, and the FAA‘s Survey of UAS Operators

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Ep 78: Listener Questions, Part 2

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Ep 77: Listener Questions, Part 1

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Ep 76: How High Should You Fly?

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Ep 75: The Telemaster is Finished! For real this time...

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Ep74: Crashing Sucks!

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EP 73: Keeping planes organized, Ron buys another airplane, Tom breaks some stuff, and other things...

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Ep 72: TRUST, and a Bunch of Other Stuff

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Ep 71: Syncing Nitro Engines

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Ep 70: We're Back! Diesel engines, Listener Feedback, and Questions.

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Ep 69: Best of Episode: Electric Motors, ESCs

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Ep 68: Best of episode - Batteries!

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Ep 67: We're Taking a Break, and How Many Channels Do You Need?

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Ep 66: Retractable Landing Gear Setup

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Ep 65: Let's Talk Landing Gear!

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Ep 64: Starlink Update, Be a Guest, and Listener Questions

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Ep 63: Cutting and Installing Canopies, Pilot or No Pilot, and our new Listener Survey is live!

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Ep 62: The Six Rules for Setting up a Servo

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Ep 61: All about Servos - Sizes, Types, and Parts

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Ep 60: Balancing Propellers

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Ep 59: All about Hinges

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Ep 58: Glues, Homemade Tools, and Listener Questions

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Ep 57: Ron Orders Starlink!, Airplane Sizes, and Listener Questions

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Ep 56: Radio Giveaway Starts Now! And Tri-Motor Talk, both our RC Model and the Full Scale Airpane.

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Ep 55: So, you crashed. Can it be fixed? And who's Duellist was faster???

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Ep 54: Radio Giveaway, Tri-Motor Project, and Listener Questions

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Ep 53: Saving Money in the Hobby

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Ep 52: The Duellists Have Flown!

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Ep 51: Remote ID

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Ep 50: The Wives are Back!

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Ep 49: Happy Holidays, Wing Incidence, and Wing Fairings

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Ep 48: Brian Burcar from Dynamic Balsa

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Ep 47: Listener Questions

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Ep 46: Duellist talk, and Fat Albert

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Ep 45: Blue Angels, Duellist Talk, and What Are We Thankful For?

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Ep 44: Winter is Coming, and more Duellist Updates

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Ep 43: Flight Trimming an RC Airplane

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Ep 42: Duellist Updates, and a Primer on Balsa Builds

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Ep 41: Halloween Special; Scary RC Airplane Stories

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Ep 40: Scratch Building, Listener Questions, and What Makes an Airplane Big?

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Ep 39: Happy Birthday Tom, How to be a Better Pilot, Listener Mail

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Ep 38: Propellers. Propellers? Air Screws!

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Ep 37: New Forums! Bending Landing Gear Wire, a Good Book to Read, and Fusion 360 Software

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Ep 36: We're on Patreon! Ron built a Third Duellist Wing, Vacuum Bagging the Wing, UMX Airplanes, and Listener Questions

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Ep 35: Warped Wings, Retracts, and Listener Mail

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Ep 34: We bought a friggin laser! What's the AMA? And gas vs glow.

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Ep 33: Tom buys an Ajusto-Jig, Ron fixes the Duellist wing, What to expect at a Fly-In, and what a spotter does.

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Ep 32: Breaking the Duellist, 3D Printers, and Fuel Tank Setup

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Ep 31: Bees, Buddy Boxes, and Biplanes

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Ep 30: Starting the Duellist, Telemaster problems, Types of wood for building, and Listener Questions

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Ep 29: Our first guest, Reggie Washington

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Ep 28: The Wives Take Over the Studio!

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Ep 27: Building spaces, and a few announcements

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Ep 26: The Trash Can Telemaster is finished! And Listener Questions...

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Ep 25: Plans and Resizing

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Ep 24: A properly stocked Flight Box

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Ep 23: Our Flying Field's Open House, and Wing Flutter

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Ep 22: Basic Fasteners and Field Etiquette

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Ep 21: Telemaster issues, Tom's old friends, and Tom fails to do a preflight

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Ep 20: Electric motors, ESCs, and how to choose the best electric power system for your airplane

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Ep 19: Flying an airplane, Tom's receiver problem, and Listener Questions

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Ep 18: Storing Airplanes, Ron is Cursed, and Listener Questions

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Ep 17: What keeps you coming back?

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Ep 16: Intermediate RC Airplanes

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Ep 15: Rebuilding a Nitro Engine

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Ep 14: Updates #4

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Ep 13: Nitro Engines, Part 2

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Ep 12: Nitro Engines, Part 1

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Ep 11: What powers your radio?

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Ep 10: Updates #3

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Ep 9: How to Make Wing Sheets

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Ep 8: Receivers

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Ep 7: Updates #2

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Ep 6: What can your transmitter do for you?

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Ep 5: It’s all about the Pre-Flight!

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Ep 4: Updates and Listener Feedback

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Ep 3: RC Planes for Beginners

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Ep 2: RC Plane Lab

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Ep 1: An Introduction!