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 ...

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 ...

OROVILLE — Helicopters, World War II airplanes, acrobatic planes and more will demonstrate tricks Saturday at the first free fun fly fundraiser sponsored by the Oroville Air Corps. The remote control ...

Pilots of remote control airplanes are a committed bunch. In a field a few miles south of Salem, I met some from the Salem Remote Control Pilots Association at the Polar Bear Fly-In, an annual January ...

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 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 ...

BOISE — The realization did not occur the time I was chucking croquet balls straight up into a sycamore tree, then running for my life each time gravity returned one toward my skull. It didn’t happen ...

The United Flying Organization holds its “Annual Fly” remote control airshow of warbirds and civilian aircraft from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 9 at the UFO Club Field on Teeple Lake Road in the ...

Frank Ostermiller once touched the clouds in airplanes, satisfying the urge to fly that only eagles, it seems, ever get to scratch. That itch lay deep in Ostermiller, of Greeley, but that was 30 years ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — A Champaign County aviation club is bringing together remote-control pilots from across the Midwest this weekend. It’s part of the Barnstormers over Champaign’s annual fun fly ...