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...
Astute readers of MAN know you can’t fly if your radio control equipment isn’t working … and it won’t if components can’t draw on enough electricity....
I started flying RC in 1992, when I noticed that a friend at work had a picture of a model airplane on his desk. He taught...
How are the engineers at NASA and Lockheed Martin approaching the design of the X-59 supersonic “low-boom” jet aircraft? The design features unbroken lines with volume...
A longtime scale competitor, Jack Buckley has many years of scale modeling under his belt and we can always count on him to show up with...
The Facetmobile, is a delta-shaped blended-wing aircraft designed by Barnaby Wainfan, a lifelong RC modeler, technical fellow at Northrop Grumman and a broadly accomplished aerodynamicist and...
Axle Alignment To ensure main landing gear alignment, cut a piano-wire rod the same diameter as the axles. Slide sections of close-fitting brass tube over the...
Another “why didn’t we think of this before” idea: this secure, spring-loaded latch can be operated with one hand. Make it with leftover pieces of plywood...