By: Ken Park On July 23rd through August 1st, 2011 Dave and his team will be going to the FAI F3A Precision Aerobatics Championship that will be held at the AMA National Flying Site in Muncie, Indiana. I had a chance to catch up with Dave for a little chat regarding the Canadian team. Dave [...]

Recently at the 2011 Florida Jets event in Lakeland, FL, contributor Rich Uravitch covered all the action and posted several photos and video interviews from the flightline of this all jet event. Rich caught up with event originator and promoter, Frank Tiano, during the event. He is seen here with his “Peripheral Amenities Manager” and [...]

From our very first, a very important part of Backyard Flyer (now Electric Flight Magazine) has been our “Homebuilt” articles where we feature scratch-built RC aircraft designs that our readers can build. The model designers who produce the working plans and develop the models put a great deal of effort into their final products. Pat [...]

THROUGHOUT MY WORK at Model Airplane News, I have traveled to cover countless regional and national scale competitions and fly-in events and over the years I have constantly bumped into one particular competitor. Jean “John” Chevalier of LaColle, Quebec, Canada, has a rich and lengthy scale modeling history and I consider myself fortunate to have [...]

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. [...]

  RC Interview with Rolly Siemonsen     Champion for sport flying—still going strong!     by Ken Park                     Rolly, tell us how you got into RC and your involvement with the Kingston RC Club. Rolly: I became interested in building model planes when I [...]