This is our first balsa wood kit, really proud and excited to announce the new Tanár, a kit for beginners but also for whoever wants to have some fun with a balsa wood rc plane like this. We have been ...

This is our first balsa wood kit, really proud and excited to announce the new Tanár, a kit for beginners but also for ...

Radio-controlled aircraft come in many shapes and sizes, but the ones we're showing today are all very ambitious in scale. And by "ambitious," we mean "ginormous." These models are truly works of art, ...

Many readers may fondly recall building rubber-band-powered balsa wood model airplanes. While the things were kinda cool, they didn't fly for long, nor could they be remotely controlled. Such is not ...

Although not the first to try and build a DIY solar-powered remote control airplane, [ProjectAir]’s recent attempt is the most significant one in recent memory. It follows [rctestflight]’s multi-year ...

It was over casual dinner conversation in 1988 that Ken Casser first heard of an aerodrome in Port Washington - an unvarnished, open field for flying remote-controlled model airplanes and helicopters.

Visitors will see some of history’s well-known airframes at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force over Labor Day weekend, but they won’t just be the ones inside the galleries. Scale versions of ...

A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) panel has reversed a decision made earlier this year by an NTSB law judge, finding that a man’s remote-controlled model plane was indeed an aircraft.

In 2011, Raphael Pirker used a RiteWing Zephyr II remote-controlled flying wing to record aerial video of a hospital campus for use in a television advertisement. That act resulted in the Federal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Greg McNeal writes about business, law, and technology policy. The National Park Service announced today that they are banning the ...

The advent of affordable gear for radio-controlled aircraft has made the hobby extremely accessible, but also made it possible to build some very complex flying machines on a budget, especially when ...