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 ...

A balsa wood glider is really easy to make despite the physics involved on its flight. Make one yourself and have a ton of ...

This is our first balsa wood kit, really proud and excited to announce the new Tanár, a kit for beginners but also for ...

I never actually computed my hours of flight time, but I know it was pretty substantial. In spring of years past, as the weather warmed up, boy, oh boy, did I ever put planes into the air ...

Wooden models are almost always made of balsa because it is the lightest wood. Some wooden models cover a balsa skeleton with lightweight tissue, plastic film or fabrics.

Top flying model airplane kit Viloga Flying Balsa Wood Model Aircraft What you need to know: This battery-powered flying model airplane kit is composed of top-quality plywood and balsa-wood materials.

Mike Moore, a life-long pilot and retired executive from Liberty Lake built multiple balsa wood and paper models of aircraft during the pandemic. This model is a P-40 World War II aircraft. Jesse ...

And it makes dozens of balsa wood model planes for display ranging between $25 and $45. Remember, many early planes were similarly constructed from wood and canvas.

Lots of kids wish they could build an airplane and fly away, but Dutch teenager Jesse van Kuijk has become one of the rare few to make it happen with his pedal-powered plane made out of balsa wood ...

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 ...

Oregon State University Winter Wonderings participants watch their balsa wood model airplanes circle above them during a mass launch in Langton Hall on the OSU campus on Saturday.