A model of a Lockheed Constellation built from a non-standard scales nearly 60 years old. Back then, most models were designed to fit a very specific box size. [Courtesy: Terry Moore] Scale modeling, ...

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 ...

Jack Bally was a veteran and aviation enthusiast with a knack for building and flying kit planes. His list of builds includes a bush plane and a parasol monoplane. But in 1999, he would take on his ...

So you want to be an astronaut? Walter Eggert has this suggestion: Begin training by building and flying scale model airplanes. Eggert, contest director for the 41st annual Eastern States Model ...

It was over casual dinner conversation in 1988 that Ken Casser first heard of an aerodrome in Port Washington - an unvarnished, open field for flying remote-controlled model airplanes and helicopters.

Richard Marriott is one of Harahan's most model citizens. When you enter his quaint shotgun style home, located about three blocks from the Mississippi River levee, you at once notice a three foot ...

Along with the Spruce Goose replica, the two model planes are among the largest and fastest radio-controlled scale model aircraft ever constructed. Bock’s company has a successful record of building ...

WLKY’S ALEX DURHAM SHARES WHY A HOBBY. ALEX: THE RIVER CITY RADIO CONTROLLERS HAVE BEEN FLYING HERE AT BILL FLUKE AIRFIELD SINCE 1999. WE TALKED WITH MEMBERS ABOUT HOW THIS HOBBY IS SOMEWHAT OF A ...

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