RCPRO Club 40 Pylon Racing

04/12/2026

The Unlimited and Sport Classes are officially returning to the 2026 National Championship Air Races in Roswell, New Mexico, after being absent during the inaugural 2025 event. This historic "September Family" reunion will take place from Sept. 16-20 and features the Air Force Thunderbirds alongside civilian performers and static displays. Tickets are scheduled to go on sale this April, so keep an eye on AirRace.org for updates! ✈️

10/06/2024

Watch this .. https://youtu.be/ydp1gHOFJ4M .. then watch it as many times as you have to understand what is said .. if you have problems understanding it, I'll be glad to explain

MSNBC host Ari Melber was left stunned after Gordon Sondland, a former Trump administration official who testified against Donald Trump during his impeachmen...

08/14/2024

My Drill Bit Charts Pro software is starting to get a lot more downloads from the Google Play Store .. it also runs on Google Chromebooks as an Android app .. and can even run on Windows as an Android app .. my Windows Store version of Drill Bit Charts Pro is currently offline in the store .. once again, like the apps disappearing from Google Play Store because of Google Policy changes, some new Windows Store policy change has it knocked off for the time being .. unlike my Android apps being unavailable on Google Play for 2-3 years, I'll get DBCP back on the Windows Store very shortly.

I've been working with Microsoft's .NET Blazor and .NET MAUI since September of 2022 very diligently and those development environments have been advancing nicely .. I've been using Blazor to publish web sites on the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform but haven’t published any Blazor Hybrid mobile or desktop apps so far .. the main reason is that my Mac computers are all down .. I've been working to get new hard drives (SSD, NVMe) in them and should be back online for developing on Mac's soon .. then I'll be able to publish to iPhone, iPad, macOS, as well as Android and Windows Store with apps that share a lot of code with the web versions of the apps.

This guy, James Montemagmo, is an excellent instructor .. I wouldn't be where I am without his videos .. even if you aren't a programmer / developer, this video may be of interest to you so that you see what developers do at the basic level .. it will give you an idea of what I really do as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t2zzoW4D98

I'm not going to be able to return to working contracts until I have the spine surgery .. As soon as recruiters and managers hear that I have pending spine surgery and that I'm disabled, job opportunities vaporize instantly .. I'm continuing to try to do some model airplane work and some guitar work, but the limited mobility is severely challenging for the model airplane work .. even just picking up guitars and the equipment needed to work on them is a challenge .. but I expect to be making guitar work recordings almost daily.
My personal web site (DonStegall dot com) is currently offline .. it and RC Pylon Suppliers dot com are getting new version drops today and tomorrow. I will be making a lot of announcements over the next week if I can stay reasonably healthy.

Links:Install Guide: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/maui/get-started/installation.NET MAUI Release Info: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/wiki/Release-Vers...

06/10/2024

I updated this Articles page on my personal web site .. https://donstegall.com/articles .. it will be getting updates .. I need to know which issue of Model Aviation my Warbird Racing article was in .. had to have been sometime between 2015 and 2017 as it talked about Warbird Racing at the 2016 and 2017 AMA NATS

05/22/2024

We all need prayers ..

My friend John McGowan is in special need right now .. his wife Gail Neeley McGowan is not doing and with her elderly mother needing care as well, he needs all the help he can get .. these are his adorable Boyz .. please add him to your prayer list

🙏🙏🙏

John was very active in RCPRO Club 40 Pylon Racing in the 2009-2012 timeframe in Alabama and has been a great friend to me .. he talked me out of going AMA on May 13th 2021 after I had arrived at the SNF to terrible conditions .. not the Academy of Model Aeronautics .. Again Medical Advice .. I wouldn't be alive if I had left the SNF that night

06/28/2023

I've made a little progress on 3D modeling in Blender for my RealFlight project of creating a Sky Raider Mach II / Club 40 Racer visual model .. I got the fuselage shape reasonably close with a low polygon count, but I was having trouble with the textures not showing properly .. a new friend Jun Taue saw my box plane posting and he's helped get the texture visuals working .. I was getting frustrated, but now I can move on to more complex modeling and finish this plane plus hopefully the Q40's, Q500's, and EF1's I want to do .. the second image is what it was looking like before his help

05/30/2023

Since I'm back in the shop and feeling like I'm starting to get back in a groove, I decided to shoot a little video this morning (5/30/2023) showing the state of my model airplane workshops .. I've still got a ways to go, probably another week or two to get things fully put away, but my workflow is getting back in order and I'm getting things done as well as getting my organization back in gear.

05/14/2023

I got the rest of umbrella studio lights back up in the main workshop this week .. been spending more time in the shop .. I had put a lot of things into those boxes in 2019 just before I got sick .. even though they're mostly labeled, some random items are in wrong boxes .. so I've been going through them .. there are about a 100 of them in the shop .. it's still got things piled up, but I'm making some headway on getting things put back in their place.

05/06/2023

When something went wrong .. in 2017