How to Make an RC Paper Airplane

How cool is that! 😄

RC Planes. What’s it all about? (Part 2)

When time passes by, and you are getting better and better, and you feel that your first plane (very often a cheap trainer) has given you as much fun as it can possibly give you. You most likely will start thinking of buying yourself another plane. This time you probably would like a more advanced model. - A model that requires higher skills from the pilot to be kept in the air. Again, it’s time for building.

If you have a real interest of building stuff, you should consider purchasing a kit consisting of nothing else than just chips, and build your plane from the grounds up. You could use the wintertime to work on your new baby. Maybe you are lucky and have a spare room in your house that could be turn into a hobby room dedicated to model airplane building. This way, you can sit inside your house, looking out on the cold weather while dreaming about flying your new plane by springtime. But be aware that building a plane from the ground up is time consuming. Simple models could be done in 150-200 hours. Bigger projects can take you several thousand hours to complete. This is your decision, but it will at least take more time to finish a kit full of chips than it takes to finish an ARF model.

OK, so the winter has passed, the temperature allows you to be outside again, and your plane is finished already? Great! Time for the maiden flight! If you are lucky with this flight, it’s quite possible you don’t have to spend any time in your workshop this summer. If you are not so lucky, or maybe too daring, chances are that you will be in your hobby room real soon to repair the broken wing, or the landing gear that fell off. Don’t get scared, it’s lots of fun anyway!