Take a hint from full-size aircraft and make a “Remove Before Flight” tags for your model’s power switch. To form the tag, use a 12-inch length...
In my opinion, the knife-edge spin is one of the most impressive extreme aerobatic maneuvers. It’s very demanding for the pilot and the airframe. First, I’ll...
A handy plastic lid top and a small section of stick-on magnetic strip material can add up to be a great way to organize those little...
Small custom-fit washers make for a simple, low-tech way to hold wheels on music-wire landing gear. It works on common on stick-and-tissue models, such as Peanut...
A Marine who has done almost as much traveling as the drones she operates, Sgt. Gracelyn Oldham, is the only female unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operator...
With time, the small screw holding the servo output arm can become loose or even come out, which causes the servo arm to slip off. If...
A very old method of adding reinforcement to glued formers and firewalls is to add triangular balsa stock at the corners. The additional gluing surface strengthens...
If you’re looking for a new scale subject, how about this unusual flier? Although it looks like a drone, it carries a human pilot! Pivotal, a...
One of the ways we can make our scale airplanes look more realistic is to hide any and all of the switches and other RC-related hardware...
There is one guarantee in this hobby: sooner or later, you are going to outgrow your workshop’s storage capacity. Whether you use a bedroom, den or...
One obvious scale detail that is often left off scale low-wing airplanes is the strip of no-slip wing-walk material often applied to smooth wings next to...
Nothing adds excitement to your RC flights more than a smoke system. Do a loop or a roll and add that dense, long-hanging smoke trail and...