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2. List of radio-controlled model aircraft kit manufacturers

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   Many notable individuals in the 1960s through the 1990s and beyond created the landscape of modern RC modeling. These included many starting their own companies. The families of many of these individuals lost interest in continuing these businesses. The incoming supply of ARF planes from overseas made it hard to sell kits requiring assembly.

3. Radio-controlled aircraft - Wikipedia

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   3D flight is a type of flying in which model aircraft have a thrust-to-weight ratio of more than 1:1 (typically 1.5:1 or more), large control surfaces with extreme throws, low weight compared to other models of same size and relatively low wing loadings. Simply put, 3D flight is the art of flying a plane below its stall speed (the speed at ...

4. Radio-controlled model - Wikipedia

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   1:10 scale radio-controlled car (Saab Sonett II)A radio-controlled model (or RC model) is a model that is steerable with the use of radio control (RC). All types of model vehicles have had RC systems installed in them, including ground vehicles, boats, planes, helicopters and even submarines and scale railway locomotives.

5. List of model aircraft manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   The Model Airplane; Model Airplane Factory; Modelworks Direct; Model Factory; Mountain Models; Mugi twinwall polypropylene aircraft; Old Planes; Paperwarbirds; Pilot R/C; RC Factory Czech; Risesoon; Schabak; SIG Manufacturing; Sterling; Stevens AeroModel USA; Stinson Aircraft; Telink (Czech Republic) Tough Jets [2] Twisted Hobbys; Veyron Models ...

6. Coachella Valley Radio Control Club - Wikipedia

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   The January 2009 running of the "Best in the West" saw national sponsorship for the first time. Sponsors included model manufacturers E-flite, Cermark and Century Jet Models along with modeling adhesives manufacturer Bob Smith Industries. Detailed coverage of the event appeared in the August 2009 edition of Model Aviation. [4]

7. Radio-controlled glider - Wikipedia

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   The challenge with Power Scale Soaring is to build a model as close to scale as possible whilst at the same time ensuring the model has good flying characteristics. Model EPP jet fighter slope soarers have become extremely popular, usually either 1950s and some 1960s designs e.g. the MiG-15 , the P-80 Shooting Star , and the F-86 Sabre , and ...

8. Hawk Model Company - Wikipedia

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   The Hawk Model Company is an American brand and former manufacturing company of scale model airplanes, ships, and figures, established in 1928. Headquartered in Chicago, Hawk was one of the first American manufacturers of injection-molded plastic model kits. After some attempts to revive the brand, rights to Hawk Model were finally acquired by ...

9. Model aircraft - Wikipedia

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   For example, 1:48 scale is 1/4" to 1-foot (or 1" to 4 feet) and 1:72 is 1" to 6 feet, while in metric scales such as 1:100th, 1 centimeter equals 1 meter. 1:72 scale was introduced with Skybirds wood and metal model aircraft kits in 1932 and were followed closely by Frog, which used the same scale from 1936 with their "Frog Penguin" brand. 1:72 ...