Electric Pages

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E-Flite Carbon-Z Yak 54 BNF This past February, my dad, grandfather and I went to the WRAM Show in White Plains, New York. This was my first time at a show that featured so many airplanes on display and I was quite taken with...
Multiplex DogFighter Multiplex is well known for their line of precision molded foam airplanes, including easy-flying trainers and gliders, twin-engine transports, seaplanes, nimble aerobats and high-performance sport...
Sebart MiG-29 3D EDF Since its debut in 1983, the full-scale MiG-29 has turned heads at air shows, world-wide. Maneuvers such as the famous “Cobra” instantly became textbook terms for a new generation of flight. With...
E-Flite Habu 32 HABU is a tribal word that loosely translates to “Holy crap, Batman, did you see this?” And that is what I said to the guys in the shop when I first opened the box. But, I digress. If you seek a...
Precision Aerobatics Addiction X I can remember my first experience with an Addiction a few years ago. My buddy Jim Champion brought his out to the field to wring it out. Truthfully, when he told me he was bringing an Addiction for...
Parkzone Ultra Micro DH 98 Mosquito ParkZone has created several foamie warbirds in ultra micro sizes, and its latest is a BNF (bind and fly) 1/32 scale de Havilland Mosquito Mk VI. This neat little warbird is ParkZone’s first twin-...
Graupner Elektro - Junior S The Elektro Junior S is entirely constructed of injection-molded Graupner Solidpor foam. The kit includes the airframe, the Graupner Compact 345Z brushless motor, a Cam folding prop, spinner, all...
Nitroplanes/Airfield RC P-47D The P-47D Thunderbolt, known as the mighty Jug, first flew on May 6, 1941, with Lowry P. Brabham as its test pilot. During WWII, it was the most feared ground-attack aircraft the Army Air Force had...
E-Flite Aeronca Champ 15e On any given weekend at my local airport I can count on there being a few different types of aircraft in the pattern during the day. One of the most recognizable is the Aeronca 7AC Champion with its...
Multiplex USA Funjet The new FunJET from Multiplex USA is the latest in their continuing line of smallish jet type models designed for all-out fun. The FunJET assembles from just seven molded foam pieces, and it can...
PARKZONE T-28 TROJAN RTF - A classic postwar trainer comes to your local park Success and recognition can be challenging goals, especially when you are trying to escape the shadow of a more famous older sibling. Such is exactly the case for North American’s T-28 Trojan....
Maxford USA Gee Bee Model Y Built in 1931, the Model Y is widely regarded as the finest flying Gee Bee to come out of the Granville brothers’ Springfield, MA, shop. Though it doesn’t have the familiar Gee Bee silhouette, the...
E-flite® T-34 Mentor 25E ARF - Fly this classic military trainer this weekend For nearly 60 years, the T-34 Mentor has been used as a primary military trainer for both the US Military and several air forces and navies throughout the world. The Mentor was a private venture...
Fly RC Review: Stevens Aeromodel Helium MG Readers of my Primary Training column will already know of my love for unpowered flight. I started in RC with sailplanes and love the pure feel of soaring. That said, powered sailplanes likely offer...
Bob Aberle's Park Pattern - An electric powered park flyer capable of standard pattern maneuvers I feel like I was able to capture all the features I wanted in this particular design. It builds very fast. In my case in three days time! There is a chance that Aero Craft Ltd, will be making a kit...
Top Flite DC-3/C-47 Kit Review - An electric conversion of this classic scale warbird kit. This kit has been on the market for a while, so I won’t review the product. Instead, I’ll concentrate on what I had to do to turn the stock Top Flite DC-3 kit into a successful electric-powered model...
FLY RC PLAN: VSP (Very Short Plane) by Dereck Woodward Download a tiled plan for Dereck Woodward's VSP as featured in the March issue of Fly RC magazine. The plan consists of 30 8.5x11-inch letter size pages designed to be taped together to form a...
ELECTRIFYING the Skyshark R/C Messerschmitt 109E - Heavy metal with unlimited vertical Skyshark designed this scale Bf-109 for .60 2-stroke to .90 4-stroke size glow engines, but I decided to convert it to electric flight by installing a power system consisting of an AXI 5320-28...
Art-Tech Cessna 182 - 500 Class Brushless In my 19 years of flying fullsize aircraft, I have flown three types of Cessna 182s: a squaretail model from 1958; a swept verticalfn model from the mid '70s and an R182 Skylane RG with...