1/4-scale Piper Cub: Completed and Flown!
Jun 29, 2011 9 Comments
Follow along as Dick Pettit builds a scale J-3 from a vintage Sig kit.
Online Exclusives
Cox Models Sky Ranger & Extra 300–Online review
Jun 16, 2011 4 Comments
Reviewer Mike Gantt notes that this pair of flyers offers “micro fun with a huge side of coolness!” If you’re looking for fly-anywhere, anytime aircraft, you can’t go wrong with one of these micro flyers from Cox. Check out the full online review! Micro model airplanes are getting better with every release, and when I [...]
Epilog Zing 24 40Watt Laser Cutter Review
May 18, 2011 8 Comments
Online Exclusive Product Review: Epilog 40Watt Zing 24 Laser Cutter By: Gerry Yarrish Our RC hobby is a tool and workbench kind of activity. Once beyond the basics modelers begin to invest more time and effort with their models. Steadily a lifelong collection of tools develops. From specialty mini clamps, razor planes and X-Acto knives, to [...]
The First Days of RC
Apr 04, 2011 4 Comments
Text & Images by Frank Gudaitis The very First example of radio control was demonstrated in New York City in 1898. Its inventor—Nikola Tesla—was a 43-year-old immigrant who was duly awarded U.S. Patent no. 613,809 on November 8, 1898. It was only one of 113 U.S. patents that this prolific genius received during his lifetime. [...]
So you think you want to built it big…
Mar 28, 2011 No Comments
Editor’s Note: This article is from the Model Airplane News “Classic Article” Archive. Greg wrote the January 1998 “Scale Techniques” column and his process is as timely today as it was when it was first written. Watch for more “Classic Articles” on the online Members’ Only section. SO YOU WANT TO BUILD IT BIG! —Advice for Enlarging RC Model [...]
Meister Scale Giant Scale P-47 Thunderbolt
Mar 25, 2011 1 Comment
(Above) Authors Jerry Smith and Pedro Sanchez kneel beside the Meister Scale P-47, a great flying warbird. MEISTER SCALE P-47 THUNDERBOLT Text and Photos by Jerry Smith and Pedro Sanchez The P-47 was first introduced in the European theater in 1942 along with the 56th Fighter Group stationed in Boxted, England. It was also in [...]
If it ain’t a Pitts, it ain’t an Airplane!
Mar 21, 2011 No Comments
If it ain’t a Pitts, it ain’t an airplane! by BUDD DAVISSON photos by Norm Feltwell & Budd Davisson Close your eyes and try to [...]
Slope Soaring Jets!
Mar 18, 2011 No Comments
Slope Soaring Jets by Dave Garwood Do you like models of jet aircraft? Did you know you can fly a model of a jet without the a ducted fan or a turbine propulsion system? If this sounds good to you, welcome to the world [...]
Warbird Rebuild—Skyshark ARF P-40N
Mar 15, 2011 1 Comment
Warbird Rebuild—Skyshark ARF P-40N Repairs on the Cheap! By: Michael C. Gross Photos by: Marshal Gross & Michael C. Gross It is quite exhilarating to make a low high-speed pass with a warbird at Warbirds Over Delaware, until you pull out in a hard bank and realize your propeller is no [...]
2011 WRAM Show Static Scale Competition Results
Mar 10, 2011 1 Comment
2011 WRAM Show Static Competition Results Pattern / IMAC 1st Terry Terrenoire Sequel 2nd Bob Noll Super Kaos 3rd Danny Landis VISA SMF Scale Electric 1st Robert Caso DH-2 2nd Michael C. Gross Albatros D.III 3rd Marshall Gross F-18 Hornet [...]
Mom & Pop Shops
Mar 07, 2011 3 Comments
(Photo Above) Hayes Hobby in Fayetteville, NC Who Says Mom & Pop Shops can’t compete? Hayes Hobby has for 40 years. by Greg Gimlick The rumor today is that Mom & Pop hobby shops just can’t compete and stay in business. This is predicated on the rapid increase in internet businesses that offer [...]
SNEAK PEEK: Blade mCP X
Feb 18, 2011 1 Comment
Ultra micro and flybarless helis have been on the scene for some time now – but a flybarless, ultra-micro heli is breaking new ground. The new Blade mCP X is the lightest commercially available collective pitch flybarless heli, and it is fully aerobatic. It will be available in a Bind and Fly (BNF) and ready [...]
The Road to Top Gun 2011
Jan 24, 2011 1 Comment
As we reported last year for the 2010 Top Gun, we again are offering a sneak peek for some of the great models and the pilots who build and fly them heading into the 2011 Scale Invitational. At the Model Airplane News office, we want to keep stirring up the excitement for one of the [...]
Classic Hints & Kinks by Jim Newman
Jan 04, 2011 No Comments
Jim Newman is an amazing aviation artist and illustrator as well as a very knowledgeable model airplane designer and builder, he was a contributor to Model Airplane News for more that 30 years and he produced the original “How To” feature called Hints & Kinks where he drew pictures to illustrate reader’s modeling ideas and work [...]
