Dave Andersen's Book

Click here to view Dave Andersen's book in Acrobat Reader format.

Note, the Word file is about 4 MB in size which will take dialup users 20 - 30 minutes to complete the download.  And the Acrobat Reader file is about 1.7 MB in size and will take dialup users 10 - 12 minutes to complete the download.  From what I have read so far, it is worth the wait.  You can right click on the above link and select the "Save Target As" option to save the Word document to your computer for offline viewing.

 

About the book...

This book is an anthology of the best of David P. Andersen’s writing to date. All of the material presented here has been published before in Model Aviation, R/C Modeler, R/C Report, Flare-Out, the newsletter of the Twin City Radio Controllers and other magazines.

What the reviewers say….

“I have just finished reading the August 1981 issue of R/C Modeler, and I wanted to drop you a note and tell you how much I enjoyed the article “Fly Me” by David P. Andersen. I am relatively new to R/C modeling, having been flying models for less than two years. However, I, too, like many other modelers have never been able to find the right words to express the sheer joy of axial rolls through rays of sunlight against a crystal blue sky. Mr. Andersen has saved us all the trouble by finding the right words.
I gave the article to my wife, and she enjoyed it as much as I did. No article that I know of has so well captured the spirit of R/C modeling. It is as Shakespeare might have said, ‘…the stuff dreams are made of…’ Thank you and thanks to D.P. Andersen for this fine article.”
--Thomas N. Wheeler, West Virginia

“Interesting and entertaining! Great book for the coffee table, workshop or the john.”
--Frank Tiano, Frank Tiano Enterprises

“A wonderful collection of anecdotes, hints and stories—some serious, many outright whimsical, but all of them great reading.”
--Dave Platt, Dave Platt Models Inc

About the Author...

David P. Andersen is a retired computer design engineer. He was born in 1940 in Minneapolis where he lives with his wife Rosemary. AMA license number 16331 was obtained in 1952 when he was flying free flight and U-control. He entered his first meet at that time, flying a Jasco Floater. A library book provided a circuit diagram from which he built his first radio (it didn’t work very well). His League of Silent Flight number is 182, the first in Minnesota. A mode one radio is preferred, a habit remaining from learning to fly on an Orbit superregen reed radio.
He has held the President and Vice President positions in the Twin City Radio Controllers and he is secretary and newsletter editor of the Scale Flyers of Minnesota which he co-founded. He also co-founded the Blue Eagles air show team.
His R/C model airplane designs have appeared in Model Aviation and R/C Modeler magazines. An active flyer, he participates in Scale Masters, NATS, Toledo Expo and other national competitions plus air shows, fly-ins and every local event he can attend.
Contest Director, Scale Masters Certified Judge, Top Gun Flight judge, and AMA Experimental Aircraft Inspector are some of his formal credentials.
Writing for national magazines started with the publication of his first construction article. Since then, he has written countless how-to’s, event reports, short stories, poems, editorials and construction articles. His designs have appeared on many magazine covers.
But all this is a mere byproduct of his love of building and flying and hanging out with his friends.

 

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