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 ...

If you can’t fly the real thing, a RC airplane might be the next best thing. Eric Snyder can tell you why. “It’s fun,” he said. “[It] keeps you out of trouble.” But, not always. Tuesday night, like ...

It is the fifth year it has happened at the Alerus Center, and it provides the club a space to fly electric RC planes in a ...

Flying RC aircraft seems like a wonderful hobby, especially when there are so many weird and wonderful contraptions. Real or remote-control, cars are simpler. They might run on gas or electricity, but ...

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 ...

I invited my friend Ronald to be a student pilot with my rc glider Riser 100, nice weather and beautiful place for flying in ...

Sherman Meek was shot down on his 17th combat mission. Meek, who served as a B-17 tail gunner during World War II, was captured by Germans and imprisoned six weeks after parachuting from the downed ...

In the past, creating accurate replicas of models and fantasy objects was a task left to the most talented of cosplayers. These props need not be functional, though. [Steve Johnstone] takes replica ...

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 ...