This is our first balsa wood kit, really proud and excited to announce the new Tanár, a kit for beginners but also for whoever wants to have some fun with a balsa wood rc plane like this. We have been ...

The model is called "Weekend Wren" By Tom Van Musteren. A small rc model that looks like a project that will only take a week ...

Many readers may fondly recall building rubber-band-powered balsa wood model airplanes. While the things were kinda cool, they didn't fly for long, nor could they be remotely controlled. Such is not ...

From left: John Robison, Matt Druckerhammer and Floyd Czoski fly a One Nite28 balsa wood airplane, a Thermic B glider and a Thermic 18 glider respectively on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020 at the South Hill ...

Ornithopters look silly. They look like something that shouldn’t work. An airplane with no propeller and wings that go flappy-flappy? No way that thing is going to fly. There are, however, a multitude ...

MELBOURNE — One of America's foremost model airplane builders carefully assembles balsa-wood aircraft inside his garage near the Indian River Lagoon, adding to his wall of plaques and trophies dating ...

AS TOYS GO, THEY ARE unequivocally low-tech. No computer chips. No multiple functions. Just a few strips of balsa wood fitted together to form a fuselage, wings, and tail. The fancy versions have ...

Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The rollout of new wind power projects could be delayed by a shortage of balsa wood. Better known for its use in ...