- Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Get Your Stuff
- 2 What Do All the Parts Do?
- 3 Building the Deck
- 4 The Airframe of the Flack
- 5 Learning to Fly One Crash at a Time: The Splinter Method
- Safety
- Trim
- Flight Simulator Setup and Training
- Incrementally Learning to Fly
- Get a Helper/Partner/Friend to Help Out
- Control Sensitivity
- Crashes
- Task 0: Approach the Field Ready to Fly
- Task 1: Launching without Power
- Task 2: RC on Launch to Landing, No Power
- Task 3: RC on Launch and Landing, Low Power, Cut Throttle
- Task 4: RC on Launch and Landing, Increasing Power
- Task 5: Turning
- The Wind
- Overall Good Strategies for Learning to Fly
- Skill Building
- Conclusion
- 6 Keeping You and Your Airplane Alive: Diagnostics and Repair
- 7 Make Your Plane Look Good for Day Flying
- 8 Make Your Plane Look Good at Night
- 9 Other Shapes
- 10 Aerodynamics for the Hacker
- 11 Hack the Flack: Make and Fly Your Own Design
- 12 Simulators, Autopilots, Video, and Buddy Boxing
- Index
This book is dedicated to Robert Cooper, who inspired me with his beautiful airplanes as a child, and my 7th-grade science teacher, Bob Parsons, who taught me how to fly and finish what I started.
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