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 ...

If you can’t fly the real thing, a RC airplane might be the next best thing. Eric Snyder can tell you why. “It’s fun,” he said. “[It] keeps you out of trouble.” But, not always. Tuesday night, like ...

The Charlotte Aeromodelers Club is a group of about 135 radio-controlled airplane enthusiasts who meet every weekend, and many weekdays, to fly model planes. Members, from all around the Charlotte ...

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 ...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…. A flying RC super hero? No, you’re not imagining things. Maker [Greg Tanous] loves both RC airplanes and super heroes, so he thought it would be awesome to combine ...

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 ...

This video takes you inside an incredible day of flying some of the largest RC airplanes ever built. From powerful engines to massive wingspans, these scale giants look and sound astonishing in the ...

On any given day at Costa Mesa’s 208-acre Fairview Park, you might find runners hitting the trails, naturalists searching for seldom-seen wildlife, people relaxing in the shade with a dog or a book, ...

In the past, creating accurate replicas of models and fantasy objects was a task left to the most talented of cosplayers. These props need not be functional, though. [Steve Johnstone] takes replica ...

The Mahoning County Model Club will be hosting its annual summer fly-in this Saturday at Shaker Woods off state Route 7, outside of Columbiana. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will ...