This Radio Controlled airplane is a scratch built 1936 Lanzo Record Breaker with an eight foot wing span. It is about 12 years old & has seen many configurations from gas powered tow plane, camera ship, autonomous test platform, to video transmitting search plane. In its current configuration, it is a Night Nite flying rc [...]
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Ultimate Night Fly RC Electric Airplane
Make ‘Em Bounce!
If you’ve had 2 or more flights on an RC airplane, you know the joy of making your airplane soar and swoop, and the agony of watching it break into pieces with an unplanned landing. Wouldn’t it be great if they could just bounce? Well, now there is a whole category of foam airplanes designed [...]
Model Railroad Benchwork
So my blogging is a bit behind. I posted the photo in Flicker of the new Model Railroad Benchwork in October, but I am just writing about it now. I guess I have bloggers guilt and needed something to post. The benchwork was built more out of a need for storage than for the immediate [...]
Kline-Folgleman Resources Around the Web
Besides having Super RC powers, Dave Powers of RCPOWERS.com has a great interview of Dick Kline. Dave has spent a lot of time trying the KF airfoil on different platforms, most of them originally unstable without the KF. Dave has come up with some interesting results and as always, Dave’s videos are entertaining and informative.
If [...]
Dick Kline: Super Hero to RC Pilots Everywhere!
One of the first friends I made after starting this site was Dick Kline, inventor of the Kline-Folgelman airfoil. Over the past few years as our friendship has grown I have noticed something else grow, use of the Kline-Folgelman design. The design has taken root in the RC Airplane community and has become the most [...]





