Even so, seeing the airplane taxing, taking off and flying through the skies makes you look twice to realize that it is in fact a scale model and not a real Emirates A380-800, also courtesy of the ...

That leads to the most basic design trade-offs to be made: strength versus weight, a fundamental design challenge for all aircraft. For scale models, part of this trade-off requires decisions ...

The full-scale mockup of the Suzuki-backed Japanese SkyDrive eVTOL is one of the most fun and futuristic things at the Expo ...

Now, more than 70 years later [wilmracer] is deep, deep into remote controlled aircraft, and he’s building an exacting scale model of the B-17G his grandfather flew on his last bombing mission ...

But whether they are flying a miniature Sopwith Baby or state-of-the-art model helicopters and jets, these enthusiasts are hooked on the sight of a small-scale aircraft taking off and soaring into ...

Jul 28, 2017 Jul 28, 2017 Updated Jul 29, 2017 At just 9 years old, Karsen Gradille is the youngest flyer of the Santa Maria-based Tri-Valley RC Modelers, which builds and flies model airplanes ...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superman! No, it really is a plane.