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MAN @ Work — Sport Scale Static Competition at the WRAM show

MAN @ Work — Sport Scale Static Competition at the WRAM show

This year, there were some amazing entries in the static Sport Scale competition. From Designer Scale and Sport Scale To WW1 and Vintage categories. Each one a piece of art work, check these out. Which one will win it category? We’ll let you know soon!
MAN @ WRAM Show — Scale Airplane Highlights

MAN @ WRAM Show — Scale Airplane Highlights

Well, the WRAM show at the Meadolands Expo Center is in full swing and the MAN team is here checking out all the great airplanes that showed up. Check out some of these beauties! Scratch built 1/4-scale Piper J3 Seaplane 1/3-scale de Havilland DH1a. Designer scale    
Road to Top Gun — Eduardo Esteves — P-47 Thunderbolt Razorback

Road to Top Gun — Eduardo Esteves — P-47 Thunderbolt Razorback

Well scale lovers, it’s that time again!! Each year MAN highlights some the most amazing and powerful scale aircraft ever built and flown in our annual “Road to Top Gun” series. And as the cold winter settle in, so do a lot of RC Scale builders and flyers as they build, setup, tweak and test […]
10 Tips to Extend Battery Life

10 Tips to Extend Battery Life

We are always getting questions about charging LiPo batteries so we decided to list our top 10 dos and don’ts for charging your battery packs. Now because almost all e-power flyers are using LiPo, LiFe or Li-Ion battery packs, we are only dealing with those battery packs in this article. The first thing is to […]
2 Days before the WRAM Show — MAN at Work

2 Days before the WRAM Show — MAN at Work

Hey, the MAN crew is heading down the New Jersey Turnpike and we’ll be at the WRAM show this Friday through Sunday. What better way to get your modeling fix in the middle of winter? Be sure to stop by the booth and say hello! We love hearing from and chatting with MAN readers and […]
Red Flag Jet Event — coming this November!

Red Flag Jet Event — coming this November!

Frank Tiano, the event promoter who brought us Top Gun and Florida Jets, has a new game in town! Frank says, “Red Flag is, and will be, a lot of things but it may be easiest to explain some things it is ‘Not,’ or ‘Will Not’ be! For example, it is not for the timid, […]
Proposed Rules for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems

Proposed Rules for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems

The FAA have released their proposed rules for commercial small unmanned aerial systems, including that these aircraft weigh less than 55 pounds, only be operated in daylight and always via line of sight. The FAA will also require operators to be certified with a small UAS rating and pass an aeronautical test every 2 years. These proposed […]
Half-Scale RC Sopwith Camel — Video of the Day

Half-Scale RC Sopwith Camel — Video of the Day

Some guys like the big stuff and for many, half scale is the new 33%! More and more 50% scale aircraft are showing up at RC events and so when we saw this video of William “Billy” Thompson flying his half-scale Camel at the Hoosier Dawn Patrol event we took notice. Featuring traditional wood construction, […]
Two Consecutive Inside Loops

Two Consecutive Inside Loops

    I often hear pilots refer to the loop as a simple maneuver. Simply pull back on the elevator stick until a complete loop has been flown, right? Wrong! Executing a perfect loop can be rather difficult. It must be round, must start and exit at the same altitude, the airplane must not drift in […]
Thunderous Tempest

Thunderous Tempest

You won’t believe how low the pilot of this 1/4-scale Hawker Tempest will fly! Henning Schlömer scratch-built this 125-inch-span, 51.8-pound beauty and powers it with a King 140cc two-cylinder in-line engine. Thanks to Rcscaleairplanes for taking this great video at the Warbird Meet MFC-Oberhausen 2014.
HobbyKing Avios Hawker Sea Fury Warbird EPO 1200mm (PNF)

HobbyKing Avios Hawker Sea Fury Warbird EPO 1200mm (PNF)

We are swooning over this scale WW II fighter! Here are all the deets from Hobby King: The Hawker Sea Fury was the last propeller-driven fighter to serve with the Royal Navy, and also one of the fastest production single piston-engined aircraft ever built. Developed during the Second World War, the Sea Fury entered service […]
LRP Gravit Quadrocopter Line

LRP Gravit Quadrocopter Line

Three new robust (read: crash resistant!) multirotors from LRP have you covered no matter what size quad you’re looking for! Check out this release: Flying quadrocopters is action and fun in another dimension. This is also true for the 2015 editions of the LRP quadrocopters. They’re extremely agile – only the reaction capacity of the pilot […]
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