A model airplane from a 1939 Cary Grant movie comes up for appraisal in this Antique Roadshow clip. If you’ve ever watched the long-running PBS show, then you’ve tried to guess the item’s worth ahead of the appraisal. How much would you guess this plane is worth? Hint: it’s more than we thought.

We have followed the progress of the giant C-17 Globemaster built for super celeb Tyler Perry. It looks like they got her airborne with a flawless maiden flight. The video includes onboard as well as ground based video, enjoy!  

My sport-scale 1/5-scale Sopwith Triplane has a rather thin wing (though it’s thicker than scale at 1 inch at the aileron servo). A low-profile servo, such as Airtronics 94921 or Hitec 77BB, would fit with the shaft vertical, but I had standard ones on hand, so I went with them. I made an 1/8-inch-thick and […]

We can’t help but love the flightline tow-in! Check out this impressive 1/16-scale Lockheed TriStar L-1011. It has a length of 11 feet, 2 inches and a wingspan of 9 feet, 10 inches! Don’t miss the cool camera angle at the 9:50 minute mark!

The Model Airplane News team is saddened that our longtime colleague and friend Tom Atwood has passed away. Tom at one time was the Editor-in-Chief for Air Age Media, including Model Airplane News. More recently, he was an online contributor for the Model Airplane News All-Access Membership. He was also the executive director at the […]