It was a warm August afternoon in 1954. My mother, sister, baby brother, and I were picking blackberries at an abandoned airstrip on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. These days, it is Newport. Then, it was the site of the Newcastle airport—an abandoned WWII airstrip. The drone of an ...

Giant-scale remote control (RC) pilots are a demanding bunch! They’ve been levying what seemed an impossible request on Desert Aircraft—to make a lighter, more powerful engine than the DA-100L. As a result, Desert Aircraft has been quietly and feverishly working on a new engine that delivers exactly what customers asked ...

These are the engines that precision aerobatic and 3D heli pilots have been waiting for! In order to nail huge maneuvers and smackdown-style 3D with your 90-sized machine your engine has to have power, and both the 105HZ and 105HZ-R deliver. Displacement has been increased by 15%, while a huge ...

From the latest Flyzone press release: "Überlites are a revolutionary concept in ready-to-fly R/C. For an amazingly low price, you get two planes to fly — each with distinct performance characteristics to enjoy indoors or outside in calm winds. The included motor, onboard radio gear and LiPo battery are combined ...

It doesn’t get much cooler than this new Flyzone Focke-Wulf FW 190. While this model is a “foamy”, it is about as detailed as they get, less a pilot in the cockpit. It comes receiver ready, so you only need to bind the radio to the airplane’s receiver, charge the ...