After a 10-year break, the legendary Valley of the Giants RC air show will return to the Westport Airport in Westport, NY on July 2 & 3, 2011. Hosted by Chapter #487 of the International Miniature Aircraft Association (IMAA) and the Champlain Valley Flyers (based in Crown Point, New York), this event will once again [...]

Are you looking to make a move up from ARFs models? Well, what you want to do is find a simple kit to build and fly. The Li’l Pup is the first kit designed to be a modeler’s  first kit. If you have been flying ARF’s and contemplating trying your hand at BIY, the Li’l [...]

The Delaware R/C Club is again hosting the “Warbirds Over Delaware” R/C airshow event at the Lums Pond State Park near Bear, DE.! For over 19 years the Delaware R/C Club has sponsored this warbirds event which attracts modelers from all over the country! All aircraft flown during the event hours must be a scale warbird [...]

Here’s the perfect gift for the pilot who has everything: a limited edition, custom watch that was made with parts from a P-51 Mustang! The Bremont Watch company was started by British brothers in 2002, and since then they have been offering high-quality, aviation-inspired timepieces. Their latest, the Bremont P-51, incorporates aluminum from the fuselage [...]

USAF Thunderbirds 2011 Schedule Throughout the year, the famous red, white and blue Thunderbirds fly with precision and pride representing the very best pilots of the U.S. Air Force. If you want to experience their amazing and patriotic airshow, checkout one of their stopovers at a major airshow near you. The Thunderbirds are the air [...]

With this adapter, almost any receiver will be compatible with S.Bus programmable servos, a CGY750 three-axis gyro and other S.Bus equipment. The SB-1 S.Bus PWM adapter converts input from up to 10 PWM channels into a single S.Bus output. The adapter costs $59.99.

Here in the US quadrocopters like the AR.Drone and Datron Scout are the ones we see in the news all the time but a Dutch unmanned rotorcraft system manufacturer called Geocopter has proven that there’s still life in the traditional helicopter design. The company delivered its first light unmanned helicopter called the GC-201. This bird [...]

Is this the largest RC Biplane in the world? We are always impressed and pleasantly surprised by the talented modelers from around the world who push the boundaries of our hobby. The most recent addition to the monster scale league is from designer and builder Frans Tanghe from the Netherlands with his stupendous 62% scale [...]

“Is that a bird? No, it’s a plane!” Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have started to use small unmanned aircraft to help monitor the local population of Stellar sea lions, but you won’t catch any of these endangered mammals looking up at the Aerovironment Puma AE aircraft, because even at 70 feet away (much [...]

This holiday weekend, the guys over at RC Car Action will have a mystery, high-ticket auction item up for bid and, although I’ve been sworn to secrecy, I can tell you that it’s a super-expensive, super-cool RC product (with four wheels!) that your teenage son or grandson (or you!) would really, really enjoy. The item will be [...]

Follow along as Dick Pettit builds a scale J-3 from a vintage Sig kit.

Well, today was a great day. The old saying, “A bad day at the flying field, is better than a good day in the office.” often rings true, but I am lucky enough to often split my day at both the office and the flying field, so I never have a bad day at work! [...]

Details for the Scale Modeler. John Valentine, owner and operator of TNP (Top Notch Products) has come out with lots of great laser cut kits and products and now available, he has introduced a new 1/6_scale Continental A-65-8 dummy engine kit. By popular request, this version has the same great realistic detail as the 1/3-, 1/4-, [...]

Smooth out your flying the easy way, with this new aircraft rate gyro from JR. It has an anti-drift sensor, so it’s ideal for high-performance aircraft, and you can adjust the gain from your transmitter. Now that gyros are being allowed in planes at scale events like Top Gun, you’ll probably see a lot more [...]