Artist At Work: Hand-Painted F-16
Check out this great time-lapse video of famed RC modeler Phil Noel hand-spraying the tail of a 1/5-scale F-16 Fighting Falcon. The work is still in process but looks impressive (and bad-ass)!
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Scale 1946 Sikorsky HO3S-1G
In 1946, the “Dragonfly” became the second helicopter to enter Coast Guard service under the Navy designation HO3S-1G. This scale beauty does the original justice, and the attention to detail is stunning. We don’t say this often, but this looks like a museum-quality model!
Unique Turbo-Prop
Talk about “wow factor!” Check out this H-400 turbo-prop model designed by Gottfried Hirscher for Tomahawk Aviation. With a wingspan of over 9 feet and a custom airbrush scheme, it’s a stunner!
Turbine Radio Setup – Jet Programming Explained
When casual modelers see a turbine-powered jet, they see a hodgepodge of wires and fuel lines running all over and think “Wow! I could never figure all that out.” The truth about it is that it isn’t all that complicated once you understand what everything does and how it fits into the big picture and […]
Lessons from Bernie
I joined the local RC model airplane flying club in 1973 and enjoyed almost 20 years of making friends and flying until about 1990. I retired in 2014 and decided to pick up where I left off. The old club was still active and my original AMA number was available to renew. So I paid […]
How to plan a successful RC event!
As the MAN crew covered Florida Jets, it got us thinking about our friend Frank Tiano who unfortunately passed in early 2021. Frank redefined what a major RC event is and was as much a promoter as he was a modeler. Please enjoy this look back on his thoughts on how establish a successful event. […]
1/4 Scale Corsair — Whistling Death!
Looks great and sounds great! Check out this stunning bent-wing warbird, powered by a Moki 250cc 5-cylinder, radial four-stroke engine. Interesting fact: in the full-size fighter, the intakes for the turbo-supercharger, intercooler, and oil cooler were located in slots in the inboard leading edges of the wings. Air running through those slots at high speeds […]
F-100D Super Sabre – Up close with Matt Balazs’s scaled-out jet
The first U.S. Air Force aircraft capable of supersonic speed at level flight, the North American F-100 made its mark on aviation history. Matt Balazs built his 1/4.75-scale version from the CARF-Models composite kit and has impressed spectators at events like Top Gun, where he recently placed third with the model in the Pro Jet […]
Engine Swap Using Your Step-Ladder!
One way to mount your new or replacement engine in a model is to use a ladder! Yes, that’s right, an ordinary step-ladder you likely have around your shop! To mount an engine at the very first point of adding the engine, or adding a new engine to an old model, you have very little […]
Amazing indoor flying!
Here at Model Airplane News we like all sorts of model airplanes so today we bring you something a little bit different. Indoor flying models often feature amazing construction techniques in building light and efficient and nothing will teach you more about pure aerodynamics than flying indoor models. It also has the benefit of never […]
AH-1 Cobra Helicopter
This giant-scale, turbine-powered helicopter is next level RC! From its cockpit with a moving pilot figure to its tail-rotor lights, this machine is serious scale. Well done.
A-12 Oxcart
Many people mistake it for the SR-71 but the A-12 Oxcart was actually the predecessor to the famous Blackbird. Designed by Kelly Johnson and built but the folks at the Skunkworks, the A-12 was smaller and faster than its sibling and has specs that are still classified today but it flew both higher and faster […]
