Features

Below are articles featured in both the print and online edition of Model Aviation. Select an article to read more.

A New Look at Vintage Aerobatics

The Senior Pattern Association’s newcomers guide to Aerobatics By Duane Wilson | Photos by the author except as noted As seen in the July 2007 Issue of Model Aviation. I wrote an introductory article

E-Flite Slow Ultra Stick 1.2M BNF Basic With AS3X and SAFE Select

An airplane that deserves to be called more than "ugly!" By Jay Smith | [email protected] - Photos by the author and Jennifer Alderman As seen in the August 2023 issue of Model Aviation. The Slow

Imagine launching a model off of a hill, over a sloping alpine meadow into lift that pushes the aircraft higher and higher … By Bob Sifleet Photos by the author except as noted As seen in the May 2006

Radio Control Soaring By Dave Garwood As seen in the April 1997 issue of Model Aviation. A reader proposed this month’s futuristic topic: crystal-ball gazing into the prospects for RC Soaring. Andrew

Model builder, designer, and author By Jay Smith | [email protected] JAY SMITH: How did you become involved with model aviation? DEREK MICKO: My dad (Jeff Micko) was active in RC and Scale

Eight days of rocket nirvana in Indiana By Jay Marsh, Matt Steele, Brian Muzek, and Marlo Purdue Email: [email protected] | Photos by Todd Schweilm As seen in the November 2019 Model Aviation. This

A ’60s thoroughbred revisted By Michael Schmitt and Allen Brickhaus As seen in the August 2011 Model Aviation. BOB GIALDINI’S ECLIPSE was the first Precision Aerobatics (Stunt) model to win the AMA

Collecting Battle of Britain Movie Memorabilia

Some Items That Might Interest Fans of the Film By Jay Smith | [email protected] | Photos by Jay Smith As seen in the July 2023 issue of Model Aviation. I’ve always been fascinated with the

These forerunners of modern RPVs helped train WW II gunnery crews to shoot down enemy aircraft By Hugh Maxwell As seen in the July 1992 Model Aviation. The Army called them OQs. The Navy called them

Around The Patch By Thayer Syme | [email protected] As seen in the July 2023 issue of Model Aviation. APPARENTLY, Gordon Johnson’s Velie Monocoupe that was featured in the lead photo of my