This time we're going to modify our last glider to make it RC, with a micro motor so we can have a lot more fun flying for up to 7 minutes. This balsa wood airplane / glider was made in a previous ...

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From left: John Robison, Matt Druckerhammer and Floyd Czoski fly a One Nite28 balsa wood airplane, a Thermic B glider and a Thermic 18 glider respectively on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020 at the South Hill ...

I never actually computed my hours of flight time, but I know it was pretty substantial. In spring of years past, as the weather warmed up, boy, oh boy, did I ever put planes into the air. Remember ...

Now it's time to make this very classic but small model airplane, this is a free flight rubber powered airplane that can fly indoors, you can fly it as a glider or as a rubber powered model, it uses ...

Where does the balsa tree grow? Why is it so lightweight? What is it good for? Why do I even want to talk about it? Balsa trees were mentioned a few times in a story of jungle survival by a group of ...

Glider enthusiast and Tauranga Aircraft Model Club president Bill DeRenzy with one of his smaller gliders. Fand of model aeroplanes are often perceived as "a bunch of old silly buggers playing with ...

SKYWARD. BEFORE THERE WERE SCREENS, THERE WERE SKIES. BEFORE TIKTOKS, THERE WERE TAILSPINS AND BEFORE BATTERIES. THERE WAS BALSA WOOD. IT’S BASICALLY GLUE. A LITTLE BIT OF SANDPAPER AND THAT THAT WILL ...

Look, up in the sky: It’s a bird. It’s a plane. Actually, it was neither. Just a few gliders. Around eight children and their families were on hand late Friday morning building free-flight glider ...