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EL PASO, Texas - In a deserted area in NE El Paso, the El Paso Radio Controllers meet every weekend to fly their various model planes. Each plane varies in shape, size, color, material, and level ...

For this event, Lockhart showed two of his model planes, a North American P-51 Mustang and F4U Corsair. Both planes were used during World War II and they are some of Lockhart’s favorites.

Model planes to replicate Battle of Britain flight. Image source, Beelsby Model Flying Club. Image caption, The Warbird Weekend will involve more than 50 large model planes. Rachel Russell.

As far as basic specs go, the Tornado Updraft 12 is 8.6 inches long (218 mm), weighs just 19 grams, can be controlled up to a distance of 240 ft (73 m), and has a top flight speed of 20 mph (32 km/h).

The same model of plane that crashed in Brazil last week has been involved in a slew of other air disasters in the past three decades -- resulting in a total of nearly 500 deaths, records show.

As mentioned above, many RC planes and copters have built-in safety technology, so newbie pilots will want to look out for that. Another consideration is battery life and flight time.

Maybe 10 years ago i read in a rc plane forum that a guy melted metal in a foil in a hot waterbath. It was a pure metal block with a low melting point and ability to store 4.5 voltage.

The AA Flight 5342 accident is the first fatal accident for American Airlines in 23 years. Flight 587 crashed shortly after takeoff from JFK airport on November 12, 2001, killing all 260 people ...

Two planes aborted landings at Reagan National Airport in the past week due to military helicopters in their flight path, according to the Washington Post.

Several variants of the U.S. Air Force RC-135 spy planes, including the RC-135V and the RC-135U, were deployed at Kadena Air Base, a U.S. military hub on Japan's Okinawa Island.