When you build a giant-scale airplane, you need to make many decisions: How many servos to use? Are the servo bays made specifically for a certain...
For neat and straight edges on parts I cut for my airplanes, make custom-sized sanding sticks to fit into tight areas. Simply get some stick-on sandpaper...
WW I dogfighters, modern jets, electric, gas, and glow flyers, giants and park flyers, scratch-builts and and ARFs … scale RC planes in military livery are...
Even when servo labels stay on, it is much too tedious to plug them all in properly. To solve this, buy several different colors of heat-shrink...
There are many ways to apply fiberglass cloth to a structure. The most common methods use either polyester or epoxy resin and catalysts. Some of the...
The stall, or more accurately the inadvertent stall, has probably caused more RC planes to crash than any other cause. The safety of your airplane depends...
When it’s time to add markings to your scale plane, paint masks ensure that you’ll get precision results. I use Callie Graphics paint masks and have...
Originally designed by world renowned aerobatic pilot and designer Sebastiano Silvestri, the Avanti is to sport jets what the Extra 300 is to aerobatic aircraft. It’s...
As a hobbyist and builder for the better part of three decades, I have wanted a CNC router or laser-cutter since I saw the first DIY...
Simple speed. That is the logic behind the long lasting Quickie 500 class of pylon racers. With their straight “Hershey bar” wing design, slab-sided fuselage, easily...
I’ve been using RCJetWerx Graphene LiPo batteries for several years in my EDF jets, so when owner Andy Davis asked me to try one of his...
There are risks involved in test-flying a new model. Regardless of its type, be it a giant-scale monoplane, a high-performance biplane, or a heavily loaded scale...