January 2022

It’s hard to believe, but the New Year is already upon us.

It seems like yesterday we were working on the January issue—but for 2021 that is, not 2022. Alas, here we are again, thinking about the year ahead and wondering what lays in store. But regardless of what may come, we wish everybody health, happiness and prosperity for the year ahead.

Faithful readers will remember the January issue last year came out nearly on the last day of the month, so it’s actually more like 11 months since we were here last time. But that can be our little secret. Since then, we’ve been steadily inching up the monthly deadlines. If everything goes according to plan, this will be our second month in a row were the next number comes out on the first day of the month. Hopefully we hit and hold that standard from this point forward.

Even with that looming release date, if you subtract three days — the 29th — there’s your deadline for article submission for the new issue. That’s just a couple of days from now. In other words, plenty of time to get your piece in for the upcoming issue if you’re of a mind to do so. After all, by the time you read this you may be ready for a break from all that family ‘togetherness’ and we’re happy to furnish a great excuse to get away for a while.

We didn’t plan on it, but the first issue of 2022 is seemingly the issue of the continuing series: there are no less than four as of this moment and potentially more coming to fruition before deadline. James Hammond continues with another master class entitled Shinobi | A Home-Grown Moulded Fuselage; Peter Scott returns with the second part (of nine!) of Electricity for Model Flyers; Chris Williams wraps up Scheibe-Loravia Topaze 4.2-Scale and, of course, master builder Norimichi Kawakami is back with the tenth part of his twelve part series Mita 3 Production Notes. Readers seem to love tuning in to see how these various storylines develop.

We have even more great articles to accompany them: first time RCSD contributor Waid Reynolds has an article with the intriguing title The 30-Year Saga of the Ventus C; Bob Dodgson has Soaring’s Dream with some sage thoughts on innovation; Tom Broeski has yet another one of his genius tips to save you both time and money and we also get a double dip of Peter Scott where he tells us of his experience with his Volantex ASW 28. Also, we’re going to be introducing a fun new feature we have on our Twitter feed called the Friday Moment of Zen. As is always the case, there are a few things percolating on the margins which may just be coaxed in for a landing before we clear the new issue for launch.

Of course, we also have the usual In The Air and The Trailing Edge spots where do our best to launch and wrap up he issue in a fitting way accompanied by some stunning photographs.

Until next month’s Lift over Drag, fair winds and blue skies to you all. Now get out there and…well, you know the rest.

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