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F-104 Starfighter – Giant-Scale Beauty!

F-104 Starfighter – Giant-Scale Beauty!

This one’s a stunner! This 1/4-scale jet is powered by a JetCat P400 Pro that sounds amazing. And it’s a big fella with a length of almost 14 feet, a wingspan of 8 feet, 2 inches, and a weight of 86 pounds. Check out the video to see this fighter in action!
Remote ID – High Altitude Flight

Remote ID – High Altitude Flight

Tim McKay is back to discuss every RC pilot’s favorite hot topic: Remote ID. In this video, Tim discusses recent FAA changes on Remote ID rules for higher altitudes, specifically during sanctioned RC plane events.

Concorde at Florida Jets!

Concorde at Florida Jets!

Nostalgia and the love for an iconic aircraft led Ali Machinchy to own and fly a model of the Air France Concorde SST. The Concorde was actually the 2nd super-sonic passenger jet behind the soviet TU-144. Capable of Mach 2, the Concorde made short work of passenger flights across the Atlantic.   Ali’s Concorde is […]
Aeropanda showing off the new Kinetix at Florida Jets!

Aeropanda showing off the new Kinetix at Florida Jets!

One of the new models we saw flying at Florida Jets was the Sergio Testa Jets Kinetix that is imported from Argentina and distributed in the US by AeroPanda. This unique looking jet has a 2.5 meter (98 inch) wingspan and is 2.7 meters (106″) long.  Available in a wide variety of color schemes, the […]

Artist At Work: Hand-Painted F-16

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)!
Scale 1946 Sikorsky HO3S-1G

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

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

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

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!

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!

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

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 […]
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