These aren’t just ordinary model planes. These planes will take off by themselves, without using electricity. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers at Rochester Institute of Technology invites ...

Bob Stalick can still remember hunching over his mother's breadboard, model airplane parts spread out, getting glue on the dressmaking pins she'd loaned him to hold the kit's pieces together. Those ...

David Shuster gripped the model airplane with a light hand, his other twirling the propeller for what seemed like ages, twisting up the rubber band that serves as the plane’s power source. The plane ...

Walk into NASA Armstrong's Sub-scale Research Lab and see the future of flight in miniature. The lab's model airplanes are used to test cutting edge aeronautical ideas like crash-avoidance and more ...

People have been fascinated by the possibilities of flight long before there were airplanes. Getting young people closer to that fascination, before they reach a college or university, is very ...