A balsa wood glider is really easy to make despite the physics involved in its flight. Make one yourself and have a ton of fun. In this video, I explain how to make it from the beginning. In this ...

Next time you’re looking for screen-free hobbies or entertainment, pick up a popular pastime of yesteryear and build a model airplane. Not only do they keep your eyes and hands busy, but you’ll also ...

Launching things with electromagnetism is pretty fun, with linear induction motors being a popular design that finds use from everywhere in hobby designs like [Tom Stanton]’s to the electromagnetic ...

Flite Test, the festival’s sponsor, offers kits to build anything from simple trainer aircraft to multi-engine warbird replicas from inexpensive foam-backed posterboard. Simple materials and ...

Don Srull has built hundreds of airplane models, including the PWS-10, a 1930s-era fighter flown by the Polish air force. Donald W. Srull, a longtime designer of model-airplane plans published in ...

Following NASA’s recent results with truss-braced wing airplanes and the benefits this could bring to full-sized airplanes, [Think Flight] figured that if it helps with those airplanes, perhaps it may ...

MILFORD — Every Tuesday and Thursday for more than a quarter of a century, a group of men work all morning building model airplanes from blueprints and kits in a small workshop behind the gym in the ...