Features

Below are articles featured in both the print and online edition of Model Aviation. Select an article to read more.

A Soaring Time Capsule

Radio Control Soaring By Dave Garwood As seen in the April 1997 issue of Model Aviation. A reader proposed this month’s futuristic topic: crystal-ball gazing into the prospects for RC Soaring. Andrew

Model builder, designer, and author By Jay Smith | jays@modelaircraft.org JAY SMITH: How did you become involved with model aviation? DEREK MICKO: My dad (Jeff Micko) was active in RC and Scale

Eight days of rocket nirvana in Indiana By Jay Marsh, Matt Steele, Brian Muzek, and Marlo Purdue Email: jaymarsh@ama-d4.org | Photos by Todd Schweilm As seen in the November 2019 Model Aviation. This

A ’60s thoroughbred revisted By Michael Schmitt and Allen Brickhaus As seen in the August 2011 Model Aviation. BOB GIALDINI’S ECLIPSE was the first Precision Aerobatics (Stunt) model to win the AMA

Collecting Battle of Britain Movie Memorabilia

Some Items That Might Interest Fans of the Film By Jay Smith | jays@modelaircraft.org | Photos by Jay Smith As seen in the July 2023 issue of Model Aviation. I’ve always been fascinated with the

These forerunners of modern RPVs helped train WW II gunnery crews to shoot down enemy aircraft By Hugh Maxwell As seen in the July 1992 Model Aviation. The Army called them OQs. The Navy called them

Around The Patch By Thayer Syme | thayer@flying-models.com As seen in the July 2023 issue of Model Aviation. APPARENTLY, Gordon Johnson’s Velie Monocoupe that was featured in the lead photo of my

Contests, Contests, and More Contests This Flying Season!

Control Line Aerobatics By Joe Daly | stunt38060@gmail.com As seen in the July 2023 issue of Model Aviation. Bob McDonald, pictured with his Aquila, is a perennial VSC competitor. He often brings self

The story of how RC models ended up in the movie By Jay Smith jays@modelaircraft.org Photos courtesy of Dave Platt As seen in the July 2023 issue of Model Aviation. If you were not aware that the

The Hughes H-1 by Walt Nowotny All photos courtesy of Miramax Film Corp., Aero Telemetry, and Joseph Bok. As seen in the July 2005 issue of Model Aviation. AS FILMING BEGAN on Martin Scorsese’s