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 ...

NEW HARTFORD | The Black Hawk R/C Pilots will host a radio-controlled aircraft Air Show and Swap Meet from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the club flying field on county road T55 south of New Hartford.

Bill Compton has been bringing airplanes safely to the ground for nearly all of his life. The 67-year-old pilot flew commercially for Martin Marietta Corp. Now he owns his own plane — 12 actually. He ...

HAZELTON • Berry Spaulding piloted his AeroWorks Extra 300 airplane straight up into the blue sky with white smoke billowing behind. Suddenly it stopped, hovered in place for several seconds, and then ...

Sadness, not happiness, is usually the outcome from a plane crash. But, that’s not the case when Jerry Hahnfeld takes his radio-controlled planes flying. “The good thing about this hobby is that you ...

In radio-controlled, or RC flying, hucking means putting an airplane through stunts, such as hovering just from the thrust of the propeller, that a manned aircraft couldn’t withstand. “Anytime you see ...

CROWN POINT — The plane launched into the air and spun into a graceful loop. “Here comes another one,” Stanley Zolodz said as the plane flipped a second time. Over the past five decades, Zolodz has ...

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 ...