Hackaday

Hard Lessons Learned While Building A Solar RC Plane

Although not the first to try and build a DIY solar-powered remote control airplane, [ProjectAir]’s recent attempt is the most significant one in recent memory. It follows [rctestflight]’s multi-year ...
Gizmodo

These giant RC airplanes are so huge that you can fly a kid inside

I have seen big RC planes in the past, but this is really getting out of hand. I watch these videos of giant scale RC planes—the one above is 85 percent of the original size!—and I have to wonder what ...
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Dirt cheap mini RC airplane | Homemade and no complications

A very small but fun rc airplane that could be as cheap as any other children's toy, the "Binary" as I call it is a wonderful homemade rc airplane for people starting in the world of rc airplanes. ★ ...
Jalopnik

These Giant Radio Controlled Airplanes Are Absolutely Nuts

Radio-controlled aircraft come in many shapes and sizes, but the ones we're showing today are all very ambitious in scale. And by "ambitious," we mean "ginormous." These models are truly works of art, ...
Hackaday

RC airplane

Anyone with an inkling of interest in super-sized remote control aircraft probably has at least seen some of the mind-blowing projects that [Ramy RC] has worked on over the years, with examples like ...
New Atlas

iPhly lets users fly RC airplanes using their iPhone

Part of flying radio-controlled model airplanes involves using big, expensive handheld control units. In the same way that iPhones are taking the place of things like debit machines, cycling computers ...
The Lima News

Radio control airplanes take fun to new heights

ELIDA — Their feet may still be on the ground, but inside they’re soaring. “I’ve just always been amazed with flight,” Allen Omlor said. “It’s kind of an addiction.” That is the collective attitude of ...
The Vindicator

RC airplane club to host fly-in

Staff photo / J.T. Whitehouse Mahoning County Model Club member Ted Russell of Poland demonstrates his “rubber-band powered” model plane. He is the only one in the club with a fleet of rubber band ...
The Herald-Mail

Pegasus Radio Control Airplane Club hosts show to benefit John R. Marsh Cancer Center

Joe Hartt spent 13 years of his life flying missionaries and supplies in and out of the jungles of Zaire as a bush pilot. On Saturday, Hartt, 58, of State Line, Pa., stayed in touch with his interest ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Radio-controlled airplane club plans fundraiser event

Greg Minden, like a lot of Prop Nuts Radio Control Airplane Club members, grew up building regular store-bought, plastic and Krazy Glue model airplanes. They were never really big, fast or ...
The Vindicator

Local RC airplane club to host fly-in this weekend

The Mahoning County Model Club will be hosting its annual summer fly-in this Saturday at Shaker Woods off state Route 7, outside of Columbiana. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will ...