For Gilbert’s Izard family, electric radio controlled model airplanes are more than just a hobby: They’re a family tradition. Three generations, from Grandpa Sam Izard, 80, to his grandson, Taylor ...

Seventy-five years ago this month, the D-Day invasion to liberate France was kicked off by almost 1,000 C-47 Dakota planes - the military version of the two-engine DC-3 commercial airliner - dropping ...

GLENVILLE -- Electric-powered radio-controlled model planes showed off their technical advances at an event Sunday sponsored by Electric Powered Modelers at Maalwyck Park. The event was open to all ...

JOHNSTOWN – The Lazy Eight Radio Control Model Airplane Club will host its 37th annual air show this weekend. The air show will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. There is a suggested ...

Greg Minden, like a lot of Prop Nuts Radio Control Airplane Club members, grew up building regular store-bought, plastic and Krazy Glue model airplanes. They were never really big, fast or ...

There exists an idiom in the aviation community: A mile of roadway will take you a mile but a mile of runway will take you around the world. Apalachee Parkway will become a runway to a fun-filled ...

Dozens of pilots flew their radio controlled planes and performed aerobatics Saturday much to the delight of several hundred spectators. The event was the 18th annual On Top of the World Radio Control ...

Rick Rosenkilde remembers sending his airplane aloft, making high-speed loops and dives and other gravity-defying moves. But when the battery fell out of the plane, he knew that meant big trouble.

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 ...

On a cool Thursday morning, a bright orange floatplane readies for takeoff near Seward Park on Lake Washington. Pilot Fred Carey opens the throttle, the crescendo of its buzzing propeller filling the ...