From left: John Robison, Matt Druckerhammer and Floyd Czoski fly a One Nite28 balsa wood airplane, a Thermic B glider and a Thermic 18 glider respectively on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020 at the South Hill ...

This is our first balsa wood kit, really proud and excited to announce the new Tanár, a kit for beginners but also for ...

Many readers may fondly recall building rubber-band-powered balsa wood model airplanes. While the things were kinda cool, they didn't fly for long, nor could they be remotely controlled. Such is not ...

History is full of engineers making (or attempting to make) things out of the wrong stuff, from massive wooden aircraft to ...

Now it's time to make this very classic but small model airplane, this is a free flight rubber powered airplane that can fly ...

EVERETT — The airplane is in parts — fuselage, wings, engines, control cables, propellers laid out in a hangar corner at the Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field. More than 7,700 were built. Yet, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – Legendary mogul Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose, a gigantic historic wooden airplane whose fate was mired in a financial dispute, will permanently stay in Oregon. The Evergreen Aviation ...

Young and old alike converged upon the gymnasium at Jean Shepherd Center for the recent Remote-Control Airplane Show. On the agenda were exhibits of foam and wood airplanes, demonstrations of various ...

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 ...

To manufacture thousands of airplanes for its World War I allies, the United States would fell acres of spruce. Preston Lerner Spruce was essential to the construction of more than 4,000 Curtiss JN-4D ...