Building a classic model airplane free flight and rubber powered, from an old design from FROG, the widgeon is a nice small first experience for anyone starting in the hobby. It uses balsa wood and ...

These aren’t just ordinary model planes. These planes will take off by themselves, without using electricity. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers at Rochester Institute of Technology invites ...

Building a classic model airplane free flight and rubber powered, from an old design from FROG, the widgeon is a nice a small first experience to anyone starting on the hobby, it uses balsa wood and ...

Walk into NASA Armstrong's Sub-scale Research Lab and see the future of flight in miniature. The lab's model airplanes are used to test cutting edge aeronautical ideas like crash-avoidance and more ...

Bob Stalick can still remember hunching over his mother's breadboard, model airplane parts spread out, getting glue on the dressmaking pins she'd loaned him to hold the kit's pieces together. Those ...

David Shuster gripped the model airplane with a light hand, his other twirling the propeller for what seemed like ages, twisting up the rubber band that serves as the plane’s power source. The plane ...

Kim Stricker has been captivated by radio control, control line and free flight model airplanes since his uncle, Wayne Stricker, taught him to fly them in 1967 in his Boaz, Ill., backyard. Kim ...