Model Airplanes

Model Airplane Finds Missing Man

Writen by Bruce Bird. Monday, January 5, 2009

There are a multitude of reasons in this day and age why people, both men and women, go missing. And just as many reasons why they should be found, and quickly. Recently, there was a startling example of how model airplanes, coupled with modern digital cameras, are benefiting society by making it easier, cheaper and quicker to find missing things, whether it be people or anything else, by providing a new viewpoint on our society.

In October last year, a model airplane fitted with a digital camera found a man missing near the West Texas town of Monahans, 4 months after he went missing. During that time search parties on foot and horseback had scoured the desert in an expensive and time consuming search. In just 3 sorties within one day the model airplane took 200 digital images and the search team rapidly found the body of David Lee Pettiet. Read the rest of this entry »

Former Medallist Hitting Heights

By Glenn Conway on Sat, 3 Jan 2009

Former world champion Joe Wurts follows the flight of his glider. Photo by Stephen Jaquiery.

Some say he is the Tiger Woods of model gliding, but Joe Wurts is living life in the fast lane, his planes sometimes hundreds of feet in the air.

• Slideshow: NZ Model Aero championships

The former thermal duration soaring world champion is turning heads and breaking national records at the New Zealand Model Aero championships being staged in South Otago this week.

The 48-year-old has already broken one national record this week and while he is the only former world champion in the 70-strong field, he admits his days of serious competition are over - it is all about fun these days. Read the rest of this entry »

Annual Aeronautics Expo slated for Jan. 9-11

Liset Márquez, Staff Writer

ONTARIO — The 11th Annual Academy of Model Aeronautics 2009 Expo featuring radio-controlled model airplanes, helicopters, trains, cars, boats and more - along with live demonstrations, will be at the Ontario Convention Center from Jan. 9-11.

The annual event, which is open to the public, helps bring modelers together, said Jeff Nance, director of marketing for the academy.

“We’re an organization that promotes education and the development of model activity,” he said.

The Academy of Model Aeronautics has more than 150,000 members, and there are more than 2,500 model flying clubs throughout the country, he said.

The expo, which is open to the public is one of the few chances the public will get to see all types of manufacturers of these models under one roof, Nance said. Read the rest of this entry »

“Its the largest model airplane in the world. It is the B29 Dina Might, scale 1/5 and with its four engines of 160cc each it lifts 210 kg in the air.”

http://www.airvids.net/view/189/worlds-largest-rc-plane-takeoff/