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Avoiding Crashes — 5 tips to save your RC airplane!

Avoiding Crashes — 5 tips to save your RC airplane!

We’ve all been here, done that! The life expectancy of your RC airplane is directly proportional to how well you follow directions. That is to say, you’ve built and setup your plane properly as explained by the instructions. This article is intended to give the first time model builders some helpful tips for being successful […]
Sherpa: RC heli that’s full of hot air (really!)

Sherpa: RC heli that’s full of hot air (really!)

On display at this year’s Paris Air Show, the ultralight Sherpa by Belgian startup Sagita aims to make the helicopter simpler, more efficient, more reliable and more affordable. The helicopter’s contra-rotating rotors are directly driven by turbines that are themselves powered by hot air and fumes from the helicopter’s powerplant. Sagita claims that this makes […]
Gas engine review: DLA-64 Twin

Gas engine review: DLA-64 Twin

 Xi’an Feiao Model, home to the DLA engine series, released a new twin cylinder engine, answering the need for a 60cc class powerplant. When I learned of the twin, I had to have one. If it was anything like its predecessors, it has to be the prime ticket for the 90-110″ inch class machines. As […]
Twin-turbine English Electric Lightning

Twin-turbine English Electric Lightning

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but compared to today’s modern, colorless fighters, classic jets had some panache. Take the English Electric Lightning, a supersonic interceptor of the ’60s and ’70s that reached double the speed of sound as the first British jet fighter. With twin stacked turbine engines, it even looked fast! In […]
XFC Winners Are Crowned!

XFC Winners Are Crowned!

The 2013 Extreme Flight Championship is in the books.  Taking place at the beautiful AMA headquarters in Muncie, Indiana and with great weather for most of the event, the best in the sport laid everything on the table to give the closest scoring competition in XFC history. In a true international event, organizer Frank Noll […]
The Radio Control Show [Episode 215]

The Radio Control Show [Episode 215]

One of the highlights of RCX every year is the awards banquet, where Model Airplane News present their Editors’ Choice Awards. In this week’s Radio Control Show, get the scoop on who won plane, helicopter, innovation and radio of the year.
FREE Wylam P-47D 3-view

FREE Wylam P-47D 3-view

The date on Wylam’s art for the P-47D Thunderbolt is December 1944. At the time, Air Age Publishing was 15 years old, Model Airplane News was a relative upstart and William Wylam was producing his fantastic art for us. That makes us and our parent company 83 years old—one of the oldest family-owned publishing companies in history! […]
Tremendous Texan’s First Flight!

Tremendous Texan’s First Flight!

Across the pond, RC models just keep getting bigger, like this 11.15-foot-span AT-6 Texan piloted by Adolf “Poldi” Leopold. Built from a Petrasuch kit, the fiberglass model is controlled by a Weatronics radio and has Wabo pneumatic landing gear, a fully detailed cockpit, functional lights and smoke. You’ll get chills when you listen to the Moki […]
U.S. pilot Jamie Robertson wins UK Zone World Knockout Championship

U.S. pilot Jamie Robertson wins UK Zone World Knockout Championship

When U.S. pilot Jamie Robertson competed at the UK’s Zone 2013 RC Helicopter World Knockout Championship last month, RCHeliHD captured some great action footage during a fun-fly session with an Align TRex 700DFC with a custom painted canopy. Jamie went on to win the competition, which he also won last year. We’re very excited to […]
Video Of The Week: “B” QuadCopter/Car Hybrid

Video Of The Week: “B” QuadCopter/Car Hybrid

We were blown away by this video from Wito Mielnicze of his invention… the B quadcopter/car hybrid. The B features full-time 4WD via unique rim-drive wheels, each encircling a brushlless-motor-powered prop that allows full quad-copter flying capability. The carcopter is still in prototype stages (we found the B on Kickstarter), but it looks production-ready. Take […]
RCX Rocks Long Beach – The Radio Control Show [Episode 214]

RCX Rocks Long Beach – The Radio Control Show [Episode 214]

In this week’s episode of the Radio Control Show, you’ll get a chance to go inside the ultimate RC expo – RCX. If you weren’t in Long Beach last weekend, here’s your chance to see the newest releases, hottest interviews, and all the action straight from the show!
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