Remote control gliders typically fly like their full-size counterparts. Tail and wing rudders control the direction of flight — but what if the wings themselves could twist and change their profile, ...

I invited my friend Ronald to be a student pilot with my rc glider Riser 100, nice weather and beautiful place for flying in Howth, Dublin. The wind was in the right direction but then for few minutes ...

No props, no jets, no rockets – California's Spencer Lisenby just broke the world speed record for remote controlled aircraft, taking an unpowered RC glider transonic at 548 mph (882 km/h) using ...

Whether you know them as samara seeds, maple seeds, or helicopter seeds, most of us know the seeds that spin down to the ground on one or two blades. They have been served as the inspiration for ...

A blast from the past in the drone world and an idea that is perhaps ripe for reinvention. The developers have gone quiet, that means one of two things. It has been picked up and is moving forward or ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaQB16ZaNI4 What is the fastest RC aircraft? Amazingly, gliders. The non-powered planes can, in skilled hands, whip up a speed of over ...

According to the Guinness World Records, Germany’s Niels Herbrich flew a rocket-powered remote control plane to a record-breaking speed of 465.544 MPH back in 2018. Three days ago, California’s ...

If you’ve ever found yourself bemoaning the relative dearth of viable personal UAV (or "drone") options but still find the idea of an eye in the sky alluring, then you may well be in luck, because ...