The Fox Valley Aero Club is one of many radio controlled aeroplane clubs in the United States. The club, quite incredibly, has been around for over 70 years and is made up of a wide range of aviation fans and enthusiasts from the Chicagoland area.
The club is a charter member of the AMA (Academy of […]
Flying a radio controlled plane can be very difficult and requires a considerable amount of practise to get it right so that you don’t crash the thing. This video shows someone who’s mastered the art of flying an RC plane as he banks, and lands on a makeshift aircraft carrier made from a few tables.
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Park Flyers are small radio controlled planes that weigh less than two pounds and are capable of over 60mph. They’re small, quiet and light and represent a change in the direction of radio controlled planes.
The planes are generally powered by electric or rubber, or some other silent propulsion method.
The AMA is currently looking to get […]
The two teenagers who invented the radio controlled reconnaissance plane won first prize on Thursday night at the International Science Fair.
The students were awarded trophies, medals and a prize of $1,500 each for their invention, which allows the user to perform unmanned reconnaissance via a radio controlled plane. The US Air Force provided them with […]
A couple of kids have created a project that they displayed at Atlanta’s ‘Intel International Science and Engineering Fair’ named Radio Controlled Reconnaissance: A Bird’s Eye View.
Alexander Wold and Jerald Farke explain the concept of their RC flying reconnaissance invention. I doubt it’ll be too long before these guys end up working for the military […]
An estimated 5,000 people are believed to have showed up for a radio controlled air show at Bury, St Edmunds last weekend for the Rougham Airfield’s Model Aircraft Show. The show was a veritable feast for model aircraft and RC enthusiasts with helicopters, planes and gliders were all on show.
To cap the whole the event […]
Rick Maida of Morgan Hill, California, has had his prized collection of radio controlled planes stolen from outside his home. Rick is avid radio controlled model plane enthusiast and he kept his most valuable models in a trailer outside his house, and on Monday night this week his trailer was stolen, with the planes inside.
Rick […]
Dr. Khoi Tran and Dieter Mahlein are model RC airplane enthusiasts from Oregon. They pilot all manner of radio controlled flying models from helicopters to planes to gliders.
The beauty of flying RC models is that you don’t have to worry about crashing, at least in the sense that you’ll die in the process. Though crashing […]
The Americans love things that are big. They also love planes, particularly military related planes. At Lakeland in Florida, you can find many Americans with some incredibly large RC planes, and naturally being Americans they’ve called it ‘Top Gun’.
So take the highway to the danger zone to Top Gun 2008, and celebrate the 20th anniversary […]
This will cost you a few quid. It’s the biggest radio controlled plane in the World, or as the news item correctly states, the biggest ’surviving’ radio controlled plane in the World.
The website features a 10 minute video of this plane in action, as it took off from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, based in […]