Which model airplane kits are best? Model airplane kits are popular with kids and adults of all ages. They depict iconic aircraft from different eras with an extremely high level of detail. If you are ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - The story of Major Robert M. Horsky can be told through his planes. The United States Air Force veteran and Cedar Rapids native, who died in the skies over Vietnam in 1965, built model ...

More than 100 boys in this city are building model airplanes after study of the special construction articles published weekly in The Eagle. Many of them are working well into the night, some as late ...

Following NASA’s recent results with truss-braced wing airplanes and the benefits this could bring to full-sized airplanes, [Think Flight] figured that if it helps with those airplanes, perhaps it may ...

Guy Forshey shows off his newest creation — a rare 1928 Boeing 80A-1 airliner. The 40-pound bi-plane is made at 1/8 scale and took five years to create./Courtesy photo To say Guy Forshey is talented ...

Building a classic model airplane free flight and rubber powered, from an old design from FROG, the widgeon is a nice small first experience for anyone starting in the hobby. It uses balsa wood and ...

EDGEMONT — Jorli “J.C.” Sikes of Edgemont is making model airplanes again, a hobby he enjoyed more than 75 years ago when he was a boy. “Then I went into the Air Force, and they gave me a real one to ...

Flying radio controlled drones appeals to youth today, in the 1950s gas powered model airplanes were the rage, but building them was more popular than flying them. Model airplanes had been a boy’s ...

MUNCIE, Ind. — For a 14-year-old, Greyson Pritchett is reserved, modest and humble. When you ask about his success as a model airplane pilot, he shrugs it off, half-noting he’s never placed anywhere ...

Over the summer last year I took my daughters out to Bong State Recreation Area in Wisconsin. The massive park offers miles and miles of walking and riding trails, large camping areas, a place to ride ...

Are store-bought toys losing their luster after long weeks of you staying at home? It’s time to roll up your sleeves and get creative. Build a gravity-fueled soapbox racer, assemble a model airplane ...

Leonardo Di Caprio may have a nomination for the best actor award at this year’s Academy Awards, but the real stars of “The Aviator,” Martin Scorsese’s biopic of playboy tycoon Howard Hughes, are the ...