That leads to the most basic design trade-offs to be made: strength versus weight, a fundamental design challenge for all aircraft. For scale models, part of this trade-off requires decisions ...

Aircraft built by Cessna, Piper, Cirrus, Diamond, and others instead have standard certificates, and their new models remain untouched by this proposed regulation. In contrast, all light sport ...

Among the most promising, Italian airplane maker Tecnam is developing the P-Volt, an all-electric version of its existing nine-passenger, piston-powered P2012 model, and aims for a first flight by ...

The world’s first all-electric passenger aircraft has ... of weeks actually and review it to see how the aircraft performs versus our models and our analysis,” Davis said.

but those stressful 26 minutes and 38 seconds made all the difference for La Jolla student Daniel Guo in winning a world championship model airplane competition last month in Romania. After three ...