Staff photo / J.T. Whitehouse Mahoning County Model Club member Ted Russell of Poland demonstrates his “rubber-band powered” model plane. He is the only one in the club with a fleet of rubber band ...

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 ...

If you can’t fly the real thing, a RC airplane might be the next best thing. Eric Snyder can tell you why. “It’s fun,” he said. “[It] keeps you out of trouble.” But, not always. Tuesday night, like ...

These RC airplanes are massive — and impressive. Watch them take to the sky and see what it’s like to fly models of this ...

In the past, creating accurate replicas of models and fantasy objects was a task left to the most talented of cosplayers. These props need not be functional, though. [Steve Johnstone] takes replica ...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…. A flying RC super hero? No, you’re not imagining things. Maker [Greg Tanous] loves both RC airplanes and super heroes, so he thought it would be awesome to combine ...

I have seen big RC planes in the past, but this is really getting out of hand. I watch these videos of giant scale RC planes—the one above is 85 percent of the original size!—and I have to wonder what ...

The Mahoning County Model Club will be hosting its annual summer fly-in this Saturday at Shaker Woods off state Route 7, outside of Columbiana. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will ...