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Giant Warbird Gaggle at Horizon Air Meet

Giant Warbird Gaggle at Horizon Air Meet

By all accounts, the Horizon Air Meet in Germany earlier this month was an incredible show, and judging from what we’ve seen it’s definitely one to add to your bucket list! This video, taken and posted by RCScaleAirplanes, shows the 19-foot-span B-17 we featured a few months ago flying alongside six more gorgeous, giant-scale warbirds. Enjoy! (For background […]
Hybrid Quadcopter UAV

Hybrid Quadcopter UAV

What has the long-distance capability of a Predator and can take off and land like a helicopter?  Meet Latitude Engineering’s Hybrid Quadcopter. This 25-pound, electric-powered prototype UAV looks like a twin-boom drone but has four multi-rotor blades.  Bayani Birkinbine, a design engineer on the project, says that flying it was a challenge. “There are  autopilots […]
Incredible Orange F-16

Incredible Orange F-16

The biannual Jet World Masters is taking place now in Meringen, Switzerland, and you can bet there are some amazing models in the air! One of them is Gerald Rutten’s F-16, featured in his video below. Gerald notes that he placed second in static judging with this jet at the 2011 event, and the model wasn’t […]
National Model Aviation Day & the Wounded Warrior’s Project

National Model Aviation Day & the Wounded Warrior’s Project

Model Aviation Day was August 17, 2013. The Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) proclaimed the inaugural date for all AMA Sanctioned modeling clubs throughout the United States to avail themselves the opportunity and celebrate “Model Aviation”. It was a day of relaxed and enjoyable flying among club members. No contest rules applied. The Indian River […]
Real or RC? Here are the ANSWERS!

Real or RC? Here are the ANSWERS!

Sometimes telling the difference between a “real” man-carrying aircraft and an RC one is no easy task. Here are the answers. 1 Both are real, man-carrying aircraft. For the full story on the B-17, click here. (That was a tricky one, we admit!) 2 This Bristol Bulldog is RC. 3 This A-6 Intruder is RC. 4 […]
Quadcopter as companion (and more!)

Quadcopter as companion (and more!)

A new project unveiled on crowd-funding site Kickstarter.com named “Spiri” is a pretty little flyer that can be anything you want it to be! Inventor Patrick Edwards-Daugherty writes, “Meet Spiri, the programmable, autonomous flying robot. Designed for you and your projects. Spiri is a versatile, airborne Linux device with sensors, cameras, wifi, cloud support, development […]
Blue Thunder Returns!

Blue Thunder Returns!

“He’s out there … flying the most lethal weapon ever made: the Blue Thunder Special.” Remember this early ’80s movie that starred Roy Scheider flying a highly modified Aerospatiale Gazelle? This RC 1/4-scale version is the handiwork of French builder Eric Meaux, who created it from a Heli Factory kit. The 24kg heli is powered […]
MAN at Kingston IMAA Rally in Canada

MAN at Kingston IMAA Rally in Canada

The 26th annual IMAA giant Scale Rally sponsored by IMAA chapter 217 and hosted by the Kingston RC Modelers club in Kingston Ontario Canada was an amazing time. Weather was perfect and the wind was almost non existent. Well over 100 pilots and almost double that many IMAA legal giant scale planes showed up and […]
Giant Swing-Wing F-14

Giant Swing-Wing F-14

Rudolf Winter heavily modified a Fly Eagle kit to create this beautiful swing-wing F-14 Tomcat. Rudolf notes that he spent approximately 400 hours building the plane, and it shows! Weighing in at 77 pounds, the twin turbine jet looks like its full-scale brother in flight. Thanks to tbobborap1 for taking this video and sharing it […]
Like Us to Win!

Like Us to Win!

As we near 15,000 Likes on Facebook, we’d like to give back to our supporters with a giveaway! One of our lucky Facebook fans will win an ultimate prize pack from AirAgeStore.com, which will include an assortment of Model Airplane News gear, a subscription to Model Airplane News, and a book and DVD of the […]
Movie Makeover: Creating Disney’s “Bulldog”

Movie Makeover: Creating Disney’s “Bulldog”

By Rich Uravitch. You’ve probably either seen, or plan on seeing, the new Disney/Pixar movie “Planes.” I stumbled across information on this production over a year ago when the studio was discussing release plans which had the movie heading directly for DVD, bypassing the theater circuit entirely. This plan has thankfully, and probably profitably, changed […]
Very (very!) big Vulcan

Very (very!) big Vulcan

Check out this gorgeous, 20-foot-span Avro Vulcan XH558! Built by Dave Johnson, the 1/7-scale model is powered by four (!) 160 turbines. The plane has sheeted wings with black Depron ribs, about which Dave notes, “The ribs essentially just keep the skins apart, and so [they] needed very little in the way of strength laterally. […]
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