East Idaho News on MSN

A new home; local flying RC plane club invites public to new flying field grand opening

After years of searching for a new area to fly, a local remote control (RC) model airplane flying club is welcoming the ...
Julius Perdana on MSN

Building and flying a custom RC Cessna model

A simple guide to building and flying a cartoon-style Cessna 182 RC plane at home, focusing on basic assembly and ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune

Model plane flying club needs a new home

For two decades, they have gathered in a big, mostly vacant field in Fallbrook, drawn together by their love for — some would say obsession with — radio-controlled airplanes and helicopters. In ...
New Atlas

iPhly lets users fly RC airplanes using their iPhone

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 ...
The Daily Sentinel

Model airplane fly-in set Saturday

The Nacogdoches Aero Modelers and Lufkin Area RC Modelers clubs are hosting the 7th annual Model Airplane Fly-In Saturday at the A.L. Mangham, Jr. Regional Airport. Club members and visiting pilots ...
The Reporter

FLY-IN: Radio Control Model Airplane Airshow is taking flight in Quakertown

QUAKERTOWN >> The annual Radio Control Model Airplane Airshow – Warbirds Over Pennsylvania Giant Scale Fly-In hosted by the Buc-Le Aero Sportsmen – is set to take flight from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Career Built on Flying Models

Pilots of all ages fly models of all types at Academy of Model Aeronautics clubs. The Academy also awards academic scholarships to graduating seniors who have been AMA members for three years. Among ...
Kotaku

RC-AirSim – RC Model Airplane Flight Simulator

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from RC-AirSim – RC Model Airplane Flight Simulator Learn to fly r/c model airplanes with this realistic flight simulator! RC-AirSim has been used successfully ...
The Lufkin Daily News

Just plane fun: Lufkin radio controlled airplane club finds joy in flying

Lufkin Area Radio Control Modelers Club president Gerry Biggs said sometimes pilots do crash land and often times it ends up in the trees. He said three months ago he had to get his deer stand in ...
Columbia Missourian

Build, fly, crash: Radio control pilots take replica planes to the sky

Building, flying and crashing — that’s how many of the hobbyist pilots in the Mid-Missouri Radio Control Association spent their year as they crafted radio-controlled scale models of airplanes and ...
Florida Today

High-flying hobby has its ups and downs

Gerry Armstrong owns a whole fleet of private planes, which he flies only for pleasure, but the Palm Bay resident doesn't have the deep pockets needed for such a hobby. How does the man do it?