Launching things with electromagnetism is pretty fun, with linear induction motors being a popular design that finds use from everywhere in hobby designs like [Tom Stanton]’s to the electromagnetic ...

Next time you’re looking for screen-free hobbies or entertainment, pick up a popular pastime of yesteryear and build a model airplane. Not only do they keep your eyes and hands busy, but you’ll also ...

Flite Test, the festival’s sponsor, offers kits to build anything from simple trainer aircraft to multi-engine warbird replicas from inexpensive foam-backed posterboard. Simple materials and ...

Don Srull has built hundreds of airplane models, including the PWS-10, a 1930s-era fighter flown by the Polish air force. Donald W. Srull, a longtime designer of model-airplane plans published in ...

Following NASA’s recent results with truss-braced wing airplanes and the benefits this could bring to full-sized airplanes, [Think Flight] figured that if it helps with those airplanes, perhaps it may ...

MILFORD — Every Tuesday and Thursday for more than a quarter of a century, a group of men work all morning building model airplanes from blueprints and kits in a small workshop behind the gym in the ...