Bill Compton has been bringing airplanes safely to the ground for nearly all of his life. The 67-year-old pilot flew commercially for Martin Marietta Corp. Now he owns his own plane — 12 actually. He ...

ELIDA — Their feet may still be on the ground, but inside they’re soaring. “I’ve just always been amazed with flight,” Allen Omlor said. “It’s kind of an addiction.” That is the collective attitude of ...

Giant radio control airplanes — minimum wingspan 80 inches — are the main attraction at the 2009 Rally of the Giants today through Sunday in Hamburg. The Grim Airpark and local club the Fairview ...

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Flying Circus Airshow is set to take place at the Butler County Regional Airport on Father’s Day weekend. The event will feature more than 200 model aircraft of all kinds, including helicopters, jets ...

Building, flying and crashing — that’s how many of the hobbyist pilots in the Mid-Missouri Radio Control Association spent their year as they crafted radio-controlled scale models of airplanes and ...

Scaled-down warbirds of World War II, miniature helicopters and even aircraft powered by tiny jet engines all flown by radio control will transform Davenport's NorthPark Mall into a small airport ...

When a new development forced the Red Stick Radio Control Club to give up its longtime airfield on Burbank Drive three years ago, members of the organization couldn't fly their model airplanes without ...

LODI — Keep an eye to the skies over Walnut Grove this weekend and witness tremendous aerobatics from remote control airplanes. The Tokay Radio Control Modelers Club will hold its fourth annual ...

The Tri-Village RC Club hosted Cub Scout Troop 397 from Hoffman Estates and Schaumburg to a morning of flying radio control airplanes at the Poplar Creek Model Airplane Flying Field on Shoe Factory ...

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The Davenport Radio Control Society's 14th Annual Fun Scale Fly-In will be 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Norman Frye Memorial Field on the northwest corner of Seven Cities Sod Farm, Davenport.