Seventy-five years ago this month, the D-Day invasion to liberate France was kicked off by almost 1,000 C-47 Dakota planes - the military version of the two-engine DC-3 commercial airliner - dropping ...

What goes up must be controlled by someone down below. At least that’s how it is this weekend with the radio-controlled planes featured at the Academy of Model Aeronautics Expo West at the Fairplex in ...

The Charlotte Aeromodelers Club is a group of about 135 radio-controlled airplane enthusiasts who meet every weekend, and many weekdays, to fly model planes. Members, from all around the Charlotte ...

More than 130 central Ohioans with a love of flying have a way to explore the wild blue yonder while standing on the ground. They are members of the Westerville Model Aeronautics Association in Galena ...

These aren't your granddaddy's model airplanes. They fly on their own power up to 400 feet up. They have wingspans of five to 20 feet. Some of them go 200 mph. And the guys who control them via radio ...

Dozens of pilots flew their radio controlled planes and performed aerobatics Saturday much to the delight of several hundred spectators. The event was the 18th annual On Top of the World Radio Control ...

Giant scale radio-controlled planes line up along the flight line at the Giant Scale Radio-Controlled Model Aircraft Air Show at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in a past show. (U.S. Air ...

On any given day at Costa Mesa’s 208-acre Fairview Park, you might find runners hitting the trails, naturalists searching for seldom-seen wildlife, people relaxing in the shade with a dog or a book, ...

There exists an idiom in the aviation community: A mile of roadway will take you a mile but a mile of runway will take you around the world. Apalachee Parkway will become a runway to a fun-filled ...

In peak conditions, Clay Ness can fly a model airplane so steadily that he just plucks it out of the air when he's finished. But even the wispiest of breezes can make things go haywire. "The challenge ...

There will be all-ages fun at the Marshall Area YMCA this weekend. On Saturday, the YMCA’s Healthy Kids Day event will be ...