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Fantastic Flying Fortress: the Nine-O-Nine! With Flightline Video

Fantastic Flying Fortress: the Nine-O-Nine! With Flightline Video

At the recent Monster Planes Fly In in Lakeland FL, several amazing scale warbirds and classics showed up to enjoy a weekend of RC fun. MAN’s Rich Uravitch and Ace Photo Guy David Hart were on hand to capture all the excitement and you will be able to read all about it in the upcoming February […]
Black Hornet: micro flyer has a big job

Black Hornet: micro flyer has a big job

This is serious RC! The Black Hornet nano drone, which can be carried in a soldier’s pocket, has an onboard camera that gives troops video and still images of hard-to-access places. Weighing only 16 grams (0.56 ounces), the Black Hornet looks like a tiny toy helicopter but it’s really a nano-size piece of military hardware.
Fightertown USA Bay City Flyers, Florida

Fightertown USA Bay City Flyers, Florida

Warbirds!  Everyone loves warbirds! Of all the airplanes ever made I’m sure everyone has at least one favorite war plane.  From the WWI to modern jets, you must have a favorite.  So when Bay City Flyers of the Tampa area had a warbirds event everyone came. November 9 was the day the Bay City Flyers […]
Sneak Peek — Proto X nano-Quad Copter from Estes

Sneak Peek — Proto X nano-Quad Copter from Estes

Wow! Talk about small! This new fully functional micro-size quad-copter is amazingly small! Out of the box, it can be ready for flight in as much time as it takes to charge the on-board battery with the included USB charger. And it also includes the smallest 4-channel 2.4GHz transmitter we’ve ever seen! For more information go […]
Your Opinion Matters!

Your Opinion Matters!

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Prevent Loose Servo Arms

Prevent Loose Servo Arms

Loose servo arms may cause your plane to fly erratically and even crash, but they’re also a symptom of something else that’s wrong! In this video, Gerry Yarrish shares his methods for finding and fixing the likely culprit, engine vibration, and offers some techniques for making sure your servo arms stay connected for good. video platform video management video solutions […]
Honoring Veterans

Honoring Veterans

Since our nation’s founding, the men and women of our military have protected our lives, our freedoms and the Constitution. Veterans are the backbone of these United States of America, and we appreciate your service.
Shop Tip Video — Splicing Balsa Sheeting

Shop Tip Video — Splicing Balsa Sheeting

When you start building larger model airplanes, you need to start splicing wood for larger than average wings. Here’s a shop tip from our own Gerry Yarrish for making slices that are strong, neat and smooth. You’ll need a metal ruler,  some CA glue, (I use ZAP medium CA and Zip Kicker,) sharp hobby blades for […]
Durafly Bf 110 Destroyer from Hobby King with Video

Durafly Bf 110 Destroyer from Hobby King with Video

Just in for Review, the new Durafly Messerschmitt Bf 110 Destroyer is going to be featured soon as a Flight Report. Beautifully detailed and equipped with counter-rotating 3-blade propellers, this twin engine WW2 Luftwaffe warbird is going to be a very popular choice for electric lovers everywhere. Reviewed and test flown by Model Airplane News […]
Horizon awards a prize a day in Gotta Have It Sweeps!

Horizon awards a prize a day in Gotta Have It Sweeps!

Haven’t entered the sweeps yet? It isn’t too late; Horizon Hobby will continue to give away a prize a day through December 14th!  This hot assortment of prizes includes the latest RC cars, trucks, planes, helis and transmitters, and entering couldn’t be easier. Entering takes just 10 seconds, so click here and you, too, could win big!
New Blackbird: on the boards

New Blackbird: on the boards

In 1998, the last SR-71 Blackbird landed for the last time, but there’s reason for celebration: Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works is planning a more advanced version, Blackbird 2.0 if you will. The SR-72 will use a hypersonic engine that combines turbines and ramjets, and Lockheed says it will be TWICE as fast as the original SR-71 […]
Happy Halloween for MAN!

Happy Halloween for MAN!

It gets scary at the MAN office when Halloween arrives and editor Gerry Yarrish doesn’t get enough candy! With a little Zap glue, a ping pong ball and some TP, Gerry conjured up this hybrid spirit of the night!  
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