history columnFrances Righter Tucker was just 3 or 4 years old, barely able to sit on a stool, when she began helping her father, Walter Righter, work on miniature airplane engines in his backyard ...

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 dating ...

Model airplanes have come a long way from the days when you stood in your backyard and the little buzzing plane whirled around on a string. These days, remote-controlled model airplanes are often ...