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R/C Flight Glossary
- AUW
- All Up Weight. This is the weight of the model including all electronics such as servos, ESC, RX, battery pack.
All equipment included that helps the model achieve radio control flight.
- Battery Pack
- Several single battery cells connected together in series to achieve desired total Voltage or parallel to achieve greater mA (capacity)
- BEC
- Battery Eliminator Circuit. Normally contained within the ESC circuit. Allows the receiver and motor to run off a single battery pack
- CA
- Cyanoacrylate. Fast drying glue. Not safe on foam unless stated on container as odorless or foam safe. Double check on scrap foam to be safe.
- Cell
- Individual battery.
- Center of Gravity
- see CG
- CG
- Center of gravity.
- The balance point of the aircraft.
- The center of the aircrafts total mass.
- Intersection of yaw, pitch and roll axis.
- Control Surface
- Surface area of model used to to manipulate position of aircraft.
- Ailerons, Rudder, Elevator
- Elevator
- Control surface to control aircraft pitch
- ESC
- Electronic Speed Control. A small circuit board that controls the RPM of your motor. The ESC plugs into your receiver, motor, and battery. Usually has integrated BEC.
- Glitching
- Unexpected movement of your servos and or motor due to radio interference or low batteries
- Parallel Connection
- Multiple cells connected positive to positive , negative to negative to Increase the the total mAh of cells. Voltage remains the same of individual cells.
- Pitch
- Movement of the aircrafts nose up or down
- Pb
- Lead acid battery.
- Radio
- See Transmitter
- Receiver
- Receives signals from your transmitter which tells your servos and ESC what to do. The receiver is placed in the model aircraft. Also known as RX
- ROG
- Roll On Ground
- Rise off Ground
- Roll
- Up and down movement of wing tips
- Rudder
- Control surface on Vertical Stabilizer to control yaw
- RX
- see Receiver
- Serial Connection
- 9 pin Serial cable also known as DB9 and can be used for connecting a TX to a computer for flight simulator programs.
- See Series
- Series
- Multiple cells connected Positive to Negative to achieve Voltage rating of multiple cells. Capacity remains the same of individual cells. Can be many number of cells connected in series.
- Servo
- Used to move control surface on model aircraft
- Transmitter
- Hand held control box. Sends commands to the receiver of the same channel as the transmitter. Also known as Radio, and TX.
- TX
- See Transmitter
- Yaw
- Movement of the aircraft on its horizontal axis side to side