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REDUNDANT POWER-SUPPLY OPTIONS

When you build a realistic giant-scale model of a specific full-size aircraft, you have many options to consider. You must not only select various RC equipment to promote redundant and safe operation, but you also have to decide on the level of detail fidelity you want to achieve. For example, do you want to simply construct and fly a semi-scale airplane that resembles the full-size subject that has exposed switches? Or do you hope to conceal these items for added to the overall realism?

As expert RC scale designer and builder Dave Platt has said time and time again, “The subjects that require the greatest number of working channels have the least amount of room for radio gear.” Scale models—and, in particular, giant-scale airplanes—often have multiple servos to actuate

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