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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Mike Moore, a life-long pilot and retired executive from Liberty Lake built this balsa wood and paper model of a German Albatross aircraft during the pandemic.

Balsa wood has long been revered for its strength and lightweight composition, two properties that make it ideal for building model structures and airplanes.

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.

The unique tree started me thinking about those balsa wood airplane gliders kids played with for decades as early as the 1930s and even today.

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 ...

Remember the balsa wood gliders that used to be so popular? That’s what I’m talking about. You don’t see much of them today. Probably most kids consider them stone age technology.

I learned to be wary of March weather as an aviation-obsessed child, when the month’s characteristic gusts kept me from flying the small balsa wood model airplanes I enjoyed building.