We need a new paradigm

[Wingin' Wayne]

I'm a grey haired old coot tired of reading material written by grey haired old coots! I'm really tired of the AMA magazine! They're a bunch of glow boys. Electric information is limited and elementry. Electrics are more and more popular! The number of beginners is growing. So is the the number of intermidiate flyers. That's where I fall in. I'd like to see a book full of information on a bunch of topics! From design basics to battery technology , motor principles to machining principles! Vintage, I've read about a hundred of your posts, it seems you have a vast knowledge in many areas! I'm sure there are many more people with simalar talent. Pool your experience together and share it with us! I'd pay twenty bucks for a book with a good pool of knowledge. I like searching the Web for information! But it it would be great to have a source of infirmation that didn't require all that research! If I needed a quick answer I could look in the chapter on batteries or whatever and get what I need to know without spending an hour on the Web sifting for information. " Entering Electrics" is fine for beginners, but I haven't seen anything for intermidiate electric pilots! PLEASE HELP!!!

[Tom Harper]

Wayne,

Good idea.

But such projects are generally done by the guy with the concept. Instead of Vintage writing a book you might get a couple of chapters from a each of a number of contributors. I'm sure Sparky Paul and Bruce Matthews have plenty to share too.

Could be quite a book.

[AndyKunz]

Why don't you start writing it yourself. Bob Hunt is ALWAYS looking for new authors. Ask him and he'll get you a writers guideline quick.

Andy

[vintage1]

I am trying to actually write articles AND books. Most not on RC related topics.

The quality of a twenty minute post here is one thing.

To put it on paper is a far more serious undertaking. As I am discovering.

All your references have to be correct, as does the mathematics. Never my best point.

In short it's a huge undertaking for little reward. But like asking someone to design and put a kit in production.

And then there is always a model to build...that takes you away from the writing.

Never mind the other little things, like actually doing the million things that make teh wife and teh bank manager happy :D

[adam_one]

I believe it would be very much interesting reading a book on RC models written by Vintage1, I just wonder how many arrows would be shown representing a plane in steady flight… :D

[vintage1]

a many as were necessary...:D. I'd provbably start with something like a hedgehog,to make the basic point, and move on from there.