Rotor Blades: Basic Airfoil Aerodynamics All rotor blades use an airfoil to develop lift, which defines the handling and flight characteristics of the helicopter. Although all...
PHOTOS BY PETER HALL FIRST-PERSON-VIEW MADE EASY EQUIPPING A FIXED-WING AIRPLANE with first-person-view (FPV) can seem daunting due to the complex equipment involved and the cost....
PHOTOS BY PETER HALL AN ENTRY-LEVEL SPORT JET WITH MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE WHEN I WAS IN MY TEENS, JETS REALLY CAPTURED MY ATTENTION. RC jets were far...
PHOTOS BY PETER HALL A STABLE TRAINER DESIGNED TO CARRY OPTIONAL FPV GEAR AS AIRCRAFT GO, THE RANGER MEETS ALL THE CRITERIA for being a perfect...
30 hot new planes and products for 2016 E-flite P-51 Operational flaps, retracts, drop tanks, pilot figure, and a 4-blade prop are just a few of...
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY JERRY SMITH INDOORS OR OUT, THIS AEROBAT CAN PUT ON A SHOW WELL, IT DOES REMIND YOU OF A LASER 200, LOOSELY,...
PHOTOS BY PETER HALL AN IDEAL TRAINER, THIS PLANE CAN EVEN LAND ITSELF! LANDING AN AIRPLANE IS PERCEIVED BY THE NONFLYING PUBLIC as the most difficult...
SCRATCH THAT AEROBATIC ITCH FAST WITH THIS GREAT-LOOKING FOAM FLIER MORE AND MORE NEW PILOTS are entering the 3D model-aircraft scene, and it seems that time...
PHOTOS BY PETER HALL A RADICAL 60CC ARF BIPE THAT ROCKS! IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A GIANT-SCALE BIPLANE that looks like no other and has...
PHOTOS BY JENNY & MICHAEL YORK A HIGH-PERFORMANCE ELECTRIC SAILPLANE FOR THERMAL SEEKERS No high-starts required for thermal hunting here; a light toss is all that's...
PHOTOS BY PETER HALL THIS SHOOTING STAR IS IDEAL FOR NIGHT FLIGHTS THE FLITEWORK SHINY checked off many of my “like” boxes on my RC sport-flier...
PHOTOS BY JOHN REID A GREAT OPTION FOR FPV RACING OR AERIAL IMAGING XHOVER HAS QUICKLY BECOME A HOUSEHOLD NAME in the first-person-view (FPV) quadcopter world,...