From left: John Robison, Matt Druckerhammer and Floyd Czoski fly a One Nite28 balsa wood airplane, a Thermic B glider and a Thermic 18 glider respectively on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020 at the South Hill ...

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 not ...

I never actually computed my hours of flight time, but I know it was pretty substantial. In spring of years past, as the weather warmed up, boy, oh boy, did I ever put planes into the air. Remember ...

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

Where does the balsa tree grow? Why is it so lightweight? What is it good for? Why do I even want to talk about it? Balsa trees were mentioned a few times in a story of jungle survival by a group of ...

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, ...

Back in the days of “Leave it to Beaver,” dad and lad could be found bonding not only their relationship but also pieces of balsa wood into radio-controlled model airplanes. After weeks or even months ...

Four Color Comics was published by Dell between 1939 and 1962, with an irregular publishing pattern, everywhere from one to six issues a month, with each comic book featuring a different story, a ...