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Align just published the specifications of all TB70 variations.

ALIGN TREX Models in the UK is offering 5% off until 2^nd January

There's a New Year Sale running at Mikado USA until 31^st December.

Scorption Power System USA offers a New Year Sale with 10% off until 31^st December.

Scorpion just released the V71 firmware update to all Tribunus II and II+ ESCs.

The final episode of Freefall RC Podcast is now available. An era ends with this episode.

David Gerster is team manager for GDW Servo from now on - announced on Facebook. David finished the Thailand Heli Blowout 2022 at the 5th place recently.

Miniature Aircraft has a Christmas sale between 23^rd and 28^th of December. Find out more at the Miniature Aircraft shop.

The company is housekeeping, and offers discount up to 40% at 42 products, mostly Scorpion motors. 

The RC helicopter world, especially the scale community has lost a great member of the family. Theo van Houten, who was known by his scale models passed away. He was a stable member of scale RC helicopter event and a great enthusiast of Chinook models. 

Goosky published few pictures about the New works of Legend project, but it's still annoyingly unclear what they are planning.

1. Fabian Kloß
2. Florian Nuener
3. Carl-Henning Siebert

Expert class before the final round results of Thailand Heli Blowout 2022: 1^st Fabian Kloß, 2^nd Thanathep Hawiros,  3^rd Florian Neuner, 4^th Carl-Henning Siebert, 5^th David Gerster

Goosky made a vauge announcement of the new project: New works of legend. Also the first low res video is published. As soon as the company give us more info we will tell more.

XLPower announced they will share more information about the planned XLPower Specter 700 V2 Nitro in the next following weeks. Briefly: same geometry, same rotor head, tail is coming from the NME edition, but the main frame will be completely different.

Kloss, Hawiros, Neuner at the first three places. Details coming soon.

Global3D dates just announced: 30 June - 2 July 2023.

There's no exact release date yet, although the SAB Heli Division announced that the new Orange Series will be released around 15^th December.

There's a big silence around this model from Taiwan, but this silence does not mean nothing is happening, or the storm earlier affected the release. The model does exist. Luca Pescante just published a photo about the TB70 to his friends.

There is a LIVE STREAM on Facebook from THB2022 right now.

The video is available here at the vstab.info website. Although it is mainly German and just smaller parts are in English, it is still interesting and iformative.

This is not Black Friday, but prices discounted at OFH, due to its closing down sale.

This Saturday (26^th November) Mikado will be holding a live Q&A session at 8PM (CET) - 7PM (GMT) - 2PM (EST). More details at Mikado website

Mikado announced the next version of VBar Control.

Align just announced the new TB70 helicopter.

Goosky announced their video contest of the S2 Legend. Great prizes offered for the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd place.

Mikado USA just posted on Facebook that they had to cancel their attendance at Virginia MowDown due to Hurricane Ian as flights from Florida are being cancelled. 

An update containing the Goosky S2 Legend model is now available at the NeXt CGM website.

Sakkarin CD Koghton is flying under SAB colours from now on. After many years with Mikado the multi world champion is announced as new SAB Team member

SoXos Australia reported unexpected delays affecting order deliveries due to COVID. 

1. Carl-Henning Siebert
2. David Gerster
3. Maximilian Zick
4. Marius Blöchinger
5. Stefan Finster

Reported by David Gerster

A new model variant is coming from XLPower: Specter V2 Nick Maxwell Edition - announced by XLPower

SAB just announced: although the packaging is in progress, a long delivery time is expected. Possible deliveries after 20^th August.

The new SAB Goblin RAW 480 technical specification is published.

Alan Robinson is announced as Team Manager in the United Kingdom.

Please, keep your eyes open. Details here... 

Yes, the Full Pitch Fun Fly is back: 8-10 July, 2022. This year again. Details will be coming soon - reported by Rob Bingham.

The night flight registration is still open - reported by Global 3D.

Taking a break - no flying for a while, then coming back: what the effects are. Learn more from the podcast. 

Pilot entry is now open for the Helifest 2022

Markes Hugo offers the annual Heli Summer in Croatia - limited availability.

The most recent episode of FreeFall RC Podcast is here.

The pilot entry registration is open from now. 

360RCTechnologies announced in a vague post that they will start distributing the Tron helicopters in the UK from next week. Tron is not named in the post, but the portion of logo makes it obvious.

More cities and areas go under lockdowns in China again, XLPower is among the affected businesses. XLPower Nimbus deliveries also affected - announced by XLPower

Jason Platts, Ruud Savelkoul, Kevin Targett, Rasmus Jakobsen, Dunkan Bossion

Episode 47 of TellARotor RC Podcast is out. Main topic: FBL Comparison - Mikado VBar. 

A new version of SAB Goblin Raw will be released before end of April - announced by SAB Heli Division. 

The latest episode of FreeFall RC Podcast is out. It isn't short: 2 hours long, but it can be useful: How to buy from others you don't know online. How to stay safe. Cash or online payments, how to handle the transactions, do's and don'ts.

The registration for the night flight competition of Global 3D 2022 is now open - reported by Global 3D

BMFA just reported that the fee to be paid for registration of UAS operators will increase to £10 from 1^st April 2022. The current fee is £9

Th German Rotor is now available. Topics among others: Sikorsky CH-53 GA and tandem mechanics in the scale section, SAB Gobline RAW 580 and Spektrum NX10 in the technical section, and DJI Mavic 3 for drone users.

The pilot registration of Rebels Fun Fly 2022 Australia is now open. The event will be on 28^th April - 1^st May in Newcastle, New South Wales.

The guys at Freefall RC are busy: the latest episode is out. 

ManiaX USA reported that the local restrictions and lockdowns in China affect badly battery shipments as well, therefore delays expected.

EGODRIFT posted on Facebook this morning: FedEx and DHL suspended their operation due to the worsening Covid situation in China. This affects EGODRIFT deliveries as well as many other companies.

Pilot registration to Global 3D 2022 will close in less than two weeks, on 27^th March - announced by Global 3D. 

XLPower and MSH sale this weekend at Helicoach.de

This episode is available here... Not short: 2 hours 22 minutes.

After a very long absence, and worrying news, Rasmus Jakobsen just announced: Luca Invernizzi (director and founder of Lynx/OXI) is back and he will continue to work from tomorrow.

Just announced: the XLPower Nimbus 550

It is now confirmed: Helifest 2022 to go ahead on 17-19 June

More details at the Align Corp.