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

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

Floyd Czoski winds up the rubber-band propeller on balsa wood airplane with a machine known as a "winding stooge" on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020 at the South Hill Sports Complex in Spokane, Wash. The ...

Top flying model airplane kit for the money Sky Bandits Balsa Wood and Styrofoam Airplane Set What you need to know: This flying model airplane kit comes with two rubber-band-powered propeller ...

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 ...

So it was that in time I was able to buy a big monster of a balsa wood plane called “The Hornet.” It had a plastic propeller with a thick rubber band, as well as a wingspan I couldn’t believe.

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 ...