Airplane enthusiasts took to the skies on Saturday as the Fox Valley Aero Club offered its annual Festival of Flight public demonstration in St. Charles featuring a variety of model aircraft flown by ...

Model airplanes are suddenly on the public’s radar as potential terrorist weapons. A 26-year-old man from a Boston suburb was arrested Wednesday and accused of plotting to attack the Pentagon and the ...

One of the highly anticipated events of the year, 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 ...

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 ...

Bend’s Epic Aircraft, which got its start making kit airplanes, has launched a next generation single-engine, turbine model aircraft at an aircraft show in Florida. The airplane offers 25 new features ...

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

The FAA and DOT have finalized their rules for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS, or drones), and clarified rules for model aircraft. This is the end of a long process the FAA undertook last year ...

The inaugural “Vintage Models Over Valley Forge” event on Sept. 30 attracted vintage model airplane enthusiasts from several states, local hobbyists and spectators. Held at the Valley Forge Signal ...

Ideally, we could do without all the extra stuff, without having to use a certain item that serves only a specific function. The world would be a better and less cluttered place if it had a ...

Launching things with electromagnetism is pretty fun, with linear induction motors being a popular design that finds use from everywhere in hobby designs like [Tom Stanton]’s to the electromagnetic ...

The Urban County Council is weighing a lease that would hand the model airplane club's airfield to a solar developer ...

Lockheed Martin's Hybrid Wing Body (HWB) airlifter will fly sometime this year—or at least a four percent scale model of the aircraft will fly. The model has completed testing in a low-speed wind ...