This time we're going to modify our last glider to make it RC, with a micro motor so we can have a lot more fun flying for up to 7 minutes. This balsa wood airplane / glider was made in a previous ...

From left: John Robison, Matt Druckerhammer and Floyd Czoski fly a One Nite28 balsa wood airplane, a Thermic B glider and a Thermic 18 glider respectively on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020 at the South Hill ...

Model airplanes and balsa wood gliders at Guillow's in Wakefield have been made in America for a century. WBZ-TV's Chris Tanaka reports.

LEHMAN TWP. – Balsa-wood gliders swooped over robotic contraptions performing simple tasks in the Penn State Wilkes-Barre gymnasium as parents, teachers and competitors watched from bleachers that ...

Where does the balsa tree grow? Why is it so lightweight? What is it good for? Why do I even want to talk about it? Balsa trees were mentioned a few times in a story of jungle survival by a group of ...

SKYWARD. BEFORE THERE WERE SCREENS, THERE WERE SKIES. BEFORE TIKTOKS, THERE WERE TAILSPINS AND BEFORE BATTERIES. THERE WAS BALSA WOOD. IT’S BASICALLY GLUE. A LITTLE BIT OF SANDPAPER AND THAT THAT WILL ...

This time I was flying my Joyvel Alfa Trainer, an original design airplane from scratch, I went to a place where I used to fly most of the time all of my gliders, soaring style, without any motor.

New adventures in aeronautics are about to be launched in the Fryingpan Valley. It’s called Andersen’s Air Force, and it involves intricate and expensive model airplanes flown by inexperienced, ...