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Flite Test: Aviation - RC Planes - Multirotors

201 Terry Dunn, NASA, and Experimental RC Planes!

Flite Test: Aviation - RC Planes - Multirotors

Flite Test

Aviation, Hobbies, Leisure

4.9600 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Writer and ex-NASA employee Terry Dunn joins James for the Flite Test Podcast this week to talk about space and RC. 

Link coming soon for the podcast article with extra fun things to read about relating to this episode. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Flight test podcast this week.

0:28.8

I'm James, your host, and today we are talking to Terry Dunn.

0:33.7

Now Terry spent 15 years at NASA, and now writes about aviation on Testid.com.

0:41.0

And he also comes up with those of crazy radio control aeroplane designs and all sorts of projects that are really cool that he writes about all the time.

0:51.2

So yeah, today we're going to be talking about NASA, going to be talking about his articles,

0:56.2

and also we're going to be talking about his RC designs.

1:00.7

One in particular as well, which is the parallax, which is an asymmetrical design.

1:06.6

Now, if you've never heard of this, then you should definitely check out the article I wrote on it

1:11.7

in the description of this podcast. It'll be linked to in there. And yeah, I actually got to fly this

1:18.7

parallax aircraft with Terry at Flight Fest this year at Flight Fest, Ohio. And that was amazing. So I'm

1:26.3

really looking forward to talking to him about his design process on that project and all, Ohio. And that was amazing. So I'm really looking forward to talking to him

1:27.7

about his design process on that project and all of that. And I hope you enjoy listening to it.

1:33.2

So without further ado, let's just jump straight into the interview and get going.

1:39.9

Terry, thank you very much for being on the podcast. So yeah, going straight into,

1:47.0

basically on the flight test podcast,

1:48.6

I'm not sure if you've listened to it before,

1:54.4

but we like to ask how our guests got into RC flying in the first place.

1:59.8

So, yeah, how did you get involved with model airplanes and aviation in general.

2:03.6

And how long ago was that, how long have you been flying?

2:08.0

Well, it was probably inevitable that I would be into modeling just because when I was growing up, my dad and my uncles

2:12.3

and I had lots of aunts and uncles,

2:14.5

there was always some sort of modeling going on,

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