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 ...

These radio-controlled planes are being flown by retirees, blue-collar workers, women, engineers, veterinarians, chiropractors, fathers and sons and competition flyers. All are sharing their ...

Sadness, not happiness, is usually the outcome from a plane crash. But, that’s not the case when Jerry Hahnfeld takes his radio-controlled planes flying. “The good thing about this hobby is that you ...

The Woodland Davis Aeromodelers invite local residents to get a close look at their radio-controlled and control-line airplanes at a display this weekend at the County Fair Mall in Woodland. The mall ...

HAZELTON • Berry Spaulding piloted his AeroWorks Extra 300 airplane straight up into the blue sky with white smoke billowing behind. Suddenly it stopped, hovered in place for several seconds, and then ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, has announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop ...

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