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[Tom Stanton] has been experimenting with compressed air motors on model aircraft for a good few years, but keeping them aloft (and intact) for more than a few seconds has …read more Continue reading Stretching the Flight Time on a Compressed Air Plane
A year ago [Ramy RC] set out on a momentous challenge: to build a 1:21 scale Airbus A380-800 RC model with functional engines, landing gear and all other details. Recently …read more Continue reading Building a Giant Remote Controlled Model Airbus A380 in a Year
For eons, hacker minded people have looked at various items their pile of stuff, came up with an outlandish idea and thought “I wonder if it would work?” Some of …read more Continue reading Power Tool Hack Takes A New Angle On RC Power Plants
What do you do when you have a whole warehouse sized facility and an industrial sized CNC foam cutter? Clearly, the only choice is to build giant RC aircraft, and …read more Continue reading World’s Biggest Foam RC Plane Takes To The Skies, But Only Barely!
For a long time radial aircraft engines, with their distinctive cylinder housings arranged in a circle, were a common sight on aircraft. As an experiment, [KendinYap], wanted to see if …read more Continue reading Electric “Radial” RC Aircraft Motor
Conventional airfoil wings have come out on top for getting flying machines airborne over the last century, but there were a few other interesting designs that have come and gone. …read more Continue reading Magnus-Effect RC Aircraft Is A Lot Harder Than It Looks
Flying wings are popular options for fixed-wing FPV flying, but they have one rather annoying characteristic: yaw wag. The flying wing will wobble on the yaw axis while flying, and …read more Continue reading Eliminate Vertical Stabiliser with ArduPlane
Electric RC aircraft are not known for long flight times, with multirotors usually doing 20-45 minutes, while most fixed wings will struggle to get past two hours. [Matthew Heiskell] blew …read more Continue reading Electric RC Plane Flies For Almost 11 Hours
The availability of cheap and powerful RC motors and electronics has made it possible for almost anyone to build an RC flying machine. Software is usually the bigger challenge, which has led to the development of open-source packages like BetaFlight …read more
Continue reading dRehmFlight: Customizable Flight Stabilisation For Your Weird Flying Contraptions
One of the major choices a newcomer to the RC flying hobby must make is on the RC link protocol. To add the list of choices (or confusion) there is now a new open-source, low latency, and long-range protocol named …read more
Continue reading ExpressLRS: Open Source, Low Latency, Long Range RC Protocol