Today, most flight simulators include the option to design your own aircraft as well as modify aircraft that are included in the sims. Check out, for...
At the MAKS 2021 International Aviation and Space Show held this July in Zhukovsky near Moscow, Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) unveiled its newest single-engine fighter,...
To build stiff ailerons and flaps and to minimize the chance of them warping, incorporate thin-wall aluminum-tube spars into them, and apply the balsa covering with...
After binding and soldering a joint, slip a piece of heat-shrink tubing over it. Depending on how the wires are assembled, you may have to put...
Here we show 9 of the smallest piloted aircraft in the world. Some are ultralight aircraft category, and this list even includes a high-speed jet and...
Is there a theoretical limit to the size of an aircraft? In the Cold War of the ‘60s, Lockheed was asked by the military to design...
While we enjoy our RC hobby, it is easy to take for granted the people behind the models, events, and articles published in Model Airplane News....
Glue a piece of triangular balsa stock to the squared-off leading edges of your control surfaces. Sand off any excess wood (see illustration). Adapted from 400...
If you’ve ever wiped out the gear-mounting bulkhead in rough ground landings, here’s a solution. The gear wire is held in a slot by regular landing-gear...
Everyone reading this should be familiar with the story of two guys from Ohio making the trek to the outer banks of North Carolina. History was...
Gene designed and built this unusual 1/3-scale Pfalz E.IV. Despite good performance data, the Pfalz monoplanes were overshadowed by the more maneuverable and powerful Fokker Eindeckers...
A while back, when I was seriously involved in scale competition, one topic that was often talked about was scale speed, which is usually thrown into...