For Gilbert’s Izard family, electric radio controlled model airplanes are more than just a hobby: They’re a family tradition. Three generations, from Grandpa Sam Izard, 80, to his grandson, Taylor ...

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, ...

Seventy-five years ago this month, the D-Day invasion to liberate France was kicked off by almost 1,000 C-47 Dakota planes - the military version of the two-engine DC-3 commercial airliner - dropping ...

Greg Minden, like a lot of Prop Nuts Radio Control Airplane Club members, grew up building regular store-bought, plastic and Krazy Glue model airplanes. They were never really big, fast or ...

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 ...

What goes up must be controlled by someone down below. At least that’s how it is this weekend with the radio-controlled planes featured at the Academy of Model Aeronautics Expo West at the Fairplex in ...

Dozens of pilots flew their radio controlled planes and performed aerobatics Saturday much to the delight of several hundred spectators. The event was the 18th annual On Top of the World Radio Control ...

Which model airplane kit is best? Model airplane kits come in a vast variety of styles and detailed constructions. They aren’t just a few wooden planks that click together and barely float anymore.

Lufkin Area Radio Control Modelers Club president Gerry Biggs said sometimes pilots do crash land and often times it ends up in the trees. He said three months ago he had to get his deer stand in ...

QUAKERTOWN >> The annual Radio Control Model Airplane Airshow – Warbirds Over Pennsylvania Giant Scale Fly-In hosted by the Buc-Le Aero Sportsmen – is set to take flight from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on ...

There exists an idiom in the aviation community: A mile of roadway will take you a mile but a mile of runway will take you around the world. Apalachee Parkway will become a runway to a fun-filled ...

JOHNSTOWN – The Lazy Eight Radio Control Model Airplane Club will host its 37th annual air show this weekend. The air show will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. There is a suggested ...